Example sentences of "[be] [pron] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thank you , they 're yours for one eighty and that 's for number six one two . |
| 2 | Tony Parsons asks the new Warhol : Are you for real ? |
| 3 | ‘ I have always been one for good manners , I like people to say please and thank you , ’ says Marjorie Gedge . |
| 4 | It is after all quite difficult to remember exactly what it felt like to be a small person when you yourself have n't been one for thirty or forty years . |
| 5 | She 's never been one for unnecessary nonconformity and there 's the Italian family to think of , but there 's more to it . |
| 6 | And Nan , the baby of the family , eighteen years old and about to start at university today , Nan had not been one for inviting friends home either . |
| 7 | I 've never been one for loud bangs . ’ |
| 8 | It was a big expensive car , must be someone for one of the neighbours . |
| 9 | If you 're keen to invest in property and you 're particularly flush at the moment , you 'll be interested to know that all this could be yours for thirty thousand pounds . |
| 10 | And so that he might ensure that our island would be his for all time , he instructed his hordes to slaughter all the children on Møn . |
| 11 | Once the settlor has put the property into the settlement the general rule is that it will cease to be his for all tax purposes . |
| 12 | There seemed to be plenty for all . |
| 13 | It was a conquest which would be theirs for more than half a century . |
| 14 | There is no explicit mention of a child to be born to him and Sarah , and there will be none for another three chapters ( not until 15.4 ) . |
| 15 | Most of the popular model railway scales are represented , so there should be something for all enthusiasts . |
| 16 | It will undoubtedly be one for public debate , and rightly so . |
| 17 | Recording is an index of whether or not the method of intervention is effective over time and , in turn , of whether or not the child 's behaviour is changing — be it for better or worse . |
| 18 | When she touches me , I shall be hers for all time , and when she touches me , I shall be so hungry for her , that I may hurt her . |
| 19 | So desperate were we for hard news on our fellow hostages , and indeed for ourselves , that Brian and I found this very trying . |
| 20 | But to wrench Aunt Lou from the home which had been hers for such a long time would be to kill her . |
| 21 | At one level , as in all picturings of God 's rule and man 's free will , there is nothing for Porfiry to do ; he just has to sit and wait , which he is good at . |
| 22 | It is nothing for 50 trucks of Canadian pea-fed bacon to arrive in one day , or as many as 2,000 barrels of apples . |
| 23 | For instance , the reason that to pull someone 's left leg and to kick the large bucket have no normal idiomatic interpretation is that leg and bucket carry no meaning in the idiom , so there is nothing for left and large to carry out their normal modifying functions on ( in general , a modifier needs a semantic constituent to modify ) . |
| 24 | Thank you sir , it 's yours for one twenty and that 's for number eight four eight , thank you . |
| 25 | ‘ When you have chosen the book you want , bring it to me so I can make a note of it and it 's yours for two weeks . |
| 26 | Two hundred pounds against the lady , at two hundred and selling for two hundred pounds thank you , sir , it 's yours for two hundred , that 's eight five four . |
| 27 | Thank you sir , it 's yours for three twenty and that 's for number six O nine . |
| 28 | At seven thousand , it 's yours for seven thousand pounds . |
| 29 | Thank you sir , it 's yours for ninety pounds . |
| 30 | Thank you sir , it 's yours for ninety pounds and that 's for number two one three thank you . |