Example sentences of "be for [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought back to how it had been for him last winter . |
| 2 | One reason why Pound 's scales must ‘ slide ’ is that nowhere in his criticism does Pound forget chronology — literary history and literary criticism are for him two aspects of one unified act of attention . |
| 3 | His family are for him living proof of them . |
| 4 | But if motherhood is for them some sort of liberation , it is n't in the image of the " liberated lady " stereotype , Cosmo girl , sexy , single , childless and employed . |
| 5 | that 's hard job to find out what to do it is for me any rate |
| 6 | Second , Arabic negative particles come in front of the verb , so that an expression such as I had nothing against becomes literally ‘ not was for me any objection ’ , thus pushing the ‘ me ’ further away from thematic position . |