Example sentences of "[be] for [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The England that Pound mourns the loss of is , as it had been for him from the first , an integral province of western Europe , sharing a common culture with France and always reaching out , through France , to the shores of the Mediterranean . |
| 2 | Surely all three are for us among the great achievements of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ? |
| 3 | The tendency is for everyone in the team to touch the ball as it goes through and to shuffle back each time someone has completed their turn . |
| 4 | To whom in particular the blame for this disaster should be attributed , it is for someone in the ministry with all the facts at their fingertips to determine . |
| 5 | Their private parts were firmly jammed in the wringer and all it needed was for somebody to the rescue . |
| 6 | And the stronger they were , the worse it was for them at the end of the picture . |
| 7 | At a public meeting last September he suggested that saying ‘ they ought to do something about it ’ was pointless , and boldly proposed that the only way to save the shop was for everyone in the village to club together and buy it . |
| 8 | When your income is not much above five or six pounds a week , as it was for me in the seventies , even a tin of dog food is out of the question . |
| 9 | It was for me like the young people out there doing their Licenza Classica . |