Example sentences of "be for [pers pn] [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 And the stronger they were , the worse it was for them at the end of the picture .
4 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 .
5 It was for me like the young people out there doing their Licenza Classica .
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