Example sentences of "[pers pn] be for [art] [adj] " 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 | I was for a short time privileged to share in the joy and vitality and the oneness with Almighty God in his Luo people ( Anne Marie will gladly give a talk and show slides to any interested groups in the North West . |
| 3 | Where has she been for the last decade ? |
| 4 | I ask him stupid things like , ‘ Where have you been for the past six months ? ’ |
| 5 | Where have you been for the past four hours ? ’ |
| 6 | Where 've you been for the last six star signs ? ’ |
| 7 | Or Eddie Grundy … or Mark Hebden … or Ruth Archer … then where have you been for the last forty years . |
| 8 | If you are for the latter , shout out Aye . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | You 're for the high jump . ’ |
| 11 | Nell stayed as she was for a long time , then had an inspiration . |
| 12 | At least — ’ she gave a rueful laugh ‘ — she was for the first twelve years of her life . |
| 13 | Now , however , having regard to what was learnt by C.N.L. 's counsel whilst sitting in court during the successful appeal , they are for the first time in a position to raise a plea of justification . |
| 14 | Whatever I designed would have to take account of circumstances as they are for the hard-pressed teaching population . |
| 15 | It is less immediately evident that such an understanding should be necessary in order to account for the formal properties of code switching , although I would argue strongly that it is , inasmuch as the extent to which switching may take place is in part a function of the extent to which the codes involved have " fused " within a community , i.e. how interchangeable they are for the different purposes of everyday interaction . |
| 16 | Though exact figures are lacking , as indeed they are for the previous Councils , Lateran II seems to have been better attended than most , if not all , others hitherto . |
| 17 | However , they are for the relative opinion of the reviewing courts , not the tribunal . |
| 18 | But you see , neither are corner shop , I mean , we 've got a lovely corner shop at the roundabout but the prices packing small cos they 're for the elderly and single people and that , and the prices just rocket you know so high . |
| 19 | They 're for the mass graves expected to be needed after the first German air raids . ’ |
| 20 | They were for the gentle grey shirehorse , whose death he blamed on himself . |
| 21 | Mr Smith , whose team are 6–1 outsiders for the Cup , agrees with the bookmakers in rating Liverpool even stronger favourites tonight than they were for the first meeting . |
| 22 | The Bioscope very much approved of the description of the movies as ‘ the drama of the masses , and went on to argue that the whole beauty of the movies was that they were for the first time providing amusement , ‘ the greatest factor in the life of.the masses ’ , to ‘ the millions ‘ who had been ‘ passed over for so many years and considered of no account ’ . |
| 23 | That particular luxury did not appear until M. Georges Nagelmackers had copied Mr Pullman and introduced them in 1883 , and even then they were for the rich who could afford to travel on the ‘ Orient Express ’ . |
| 24 | I 'd assumed without thinking that they were for the straddling dock cranes to run on . |
| 25 | Both of them were for a free market , the introduction of Lithuania 's own currency and withdrawal of Russian troops . |
| 26 | A royal charter , read aloud by a villager on horseback , proclaims Seamer Fair to be open for business for the next seven days ; but it is not , nor has it been for the last fifty years . |
| 27 | Sir , If you please to send me a scarlet Cardinal [ a short red cloak ] , and let it be full yard long , and rather longer than a yard long , and let it be full , for it be for a large Woman , they tell me I may have a long one , and a handsome one , for 11s but I shou 'd not be willing to give more than 12s , but if you have any as long as that , either duffil or cloth , if it is cheaper , I shou 'd like it as well as , for I am not to give but 12s for it . |
| 28 | I 've decided to add my own gown to the auction as it 's for a good cause , Guy 's Hospital cancer unit . |
| 29 | It 's for a good |
| 30 | It 's for a good cause Miss . |