Example sentences of "[pers pn] be for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , there was some on a plate and my sister 's little lad went up and went to take one off this plate and then Valerie tu turned round , she said er , you ca n't have one of them , them are for the old folks . |
| 2 | Since I , without the benefit of tax relief , am paying as much as I am for the Monarchy , I would like them to do what they have to do in silence . |
| 3 | On the track ‘ I 'm Against The '80s ’ , Lawrence drawls , ‘ I 'm for the '70s/I 'm for the '90s , too ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm for the dustbin now ? ’ she said . |
| 5 | ‘ And yes , I 'm for the cottage that the Harris Agency advertised . |
| 6 | I 'm for the artist speaking to the audience , backing them and letting them do what they want . |
| 7 | she was for the top of the hockey team and I were for the football |
| 8 | How thankful I was for the strength these two shared with me ! |
| 9 | I can not resist the admission that I was profoundly flattered when a telephone call from Harold Wilson at Downing Street invited me to mediate on the basis that , so far as they could see , I was for the moment the only tolerable candidate . |
| 10 | Which is why I 'm ringing , ’ Rosemary revealed , and confessed , ‘ I have n't let myself face how lonely I was for the sound of his voice . |
| 11 | ‘ I think he was better casting than I was for the part . |
| 12 | Where has she been for the last decade ? |
| 13 | I ask him stupid things like , ‘ Where have you been for the past six months ? ’ |
| 14 | Where have you been for the past four hours ? ’ |
| 15 | Where 've you been for the last six star signs ? ’ |
| 16 | Or Eddie Grundy … or Mark Hebden … or Ruth Archer … then where have you been for the last forty years . |
| 17 | If you are for the latter , shout out Aye . |
| 18 | There you are for the for the ring . |
| 19 | Well there you are for the as we have it again now . |
| 20 | There you are for the gent 's ring this time . |
| 21 | ‘ No more anxious than you are for the return of the Earl of Gloucester , madam , ’ he countered . |
| 22 | That grant is ring fenced , it can only be spent on community care defined elements , it includes the recognition that as well as buying care for people , you are for the first time , er , assessing people 's needs . |
| 23 | You 're for the high jump . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ But when push comes to shove , ’ says Mr Stafford Smith , ‘ it 's a lot easier to say you 're for the death penalty than to actually kill people . |
| 25 | I says , I do n't think you 're for the beer beer . |
| 26 | I wondered whether you were erm I wonder whether you were for the bullet or not ? |
| 27 | I suspect she 's for the chop . |
| 28 | I 'll have her brought down here to Florence as soon as she can be moved but we 'll have to leave her where she is for the moment — in fact , put me through to Pontino again now , will you ? |
| 29 | At least — ’ she gave a rueful laugh ‘ — she was for the first twelve years of her life . |
| 30 | They had walked quite some miles , she realised on the return journey , and she had been in his company for quite some while , so it came as no surprise to also realise how totally unsuited she was for the job she was there to do . |