Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] be for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've walked halfway across Berlin for the International Anti-War Youth Movement , and I 'm for a swim . ’ |
| 2 | But the next time Cecilia saw Daphne Bleech-Palmer Tina 's words came back to her and she was for a while shy and constrained . |
| 3 | It is for a Mr erm , Ridgeway , and it 's for a two storey extension to an existing house . |
| 4 | This was my first poem ever written and it was for a daffodil tea in our church . |
| 5 | ‘ If you 've got the money and it was for a favour lasting a day or two , then why do n't you just tell him the arrangement is ended and let Barbara Coleman leave ? ’ |
| 6 | From late 1813 trade improved , and it was for a time in 1814 brisk again . |
| 7 | Not only were there also one or two very old statutes to which resort could be made , but the common law of conspiracy was generally held to preclude collective actions designed to harm employers ' interests : " it is not the denial to work except for more wages than is allowed by statute , but it is for a conspiracy to raise their wages , for which these defendants are indicted " , concluded a famous judgement against some striking tailors of Cambridge in 1721 . |
| 8 | But it was for a reason that would cut no ice with Jean-Claude and so I did not put it to him . |