Example sentences of "be [verb] to [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She lost pearls that had been given to her for her 21st birthday . |
| 2 | ‘ I know the civil liberties people will not like it , but to some degree they have got us into this mess and we have been listening to them for too long , ’ said Mr Gallie . |
| 3 | Dougal had not been listening to her for at least a minute . |
| 4 | As the hon. Gentleman introduced the subject of colour of dress , I can only say that I have been listening to him for almost 18 years and I wish that he would sometimes change the colour of his tie . |
| 5 | I 've been listening to it for a while . |
| 6 | Once Celie finds out her sister was still alive and had been writing to her for all this time but she had not received any letters because Albert had intercepted the letters , she stopped writing to God . |
| 7 | I am writing to you for information about the kind of courses I read about in the article on the Features Page of last week 's Daily Telegraph which gave the address of your organization . |
| 8 | I represent the 17th Waltham Forest Company of the Boys Brigade and am writing to you for help . |
| 9 | ‘ I think that 's the kindest thing that 's been said to me for ages , Ben dear . |
| 10 | Er today we 're going to look at this Policy E two , the op open countryside , and there are presented to you for the discussion three matters . |
| 11 | But if you 're looking to me for a list of who really makes which strings , I 've found that asking straight questions does n't always get you straight answers . |
| 12 | Now you suspected she 'd been lying to you for thirteen years . |
| 13 | This was the fate of deaf and dumb adults and children until towards the end of the sixteenth century , when Pedro Ponce de Leon , a Benedictine monk of the monastery of San Salvador near Burgos in Northern Spain , succeeded in teaching language to some deaf and dumb children , who had been entrusted to him for schooling by wealthy families , as deaf and dumb minors were legally incapable of inheriting their parents estates . |
| 14 | Yes , well she was all , so I 've been speaking to her for weeks when she did n't |
| 15 | ’ If you have been attending to it for twenty four years , I came here into this church as a choir boy . ’ |
| 16 | They 'd been known to us for years as a couple of minor police informers , dabblers in espionage who never come up with anything much . ’ |
| 17 | CHARLES CLIFFE needs little introduction having been known to you for his splendid writing and demonstrations . |
| 18 | You will also find a splendid array of fine performers who are coming to us for the first time — many surely due to be favourites of the future . |
| 19 | My theories with it , my er great cynical look at it is , they they need a hundred offenders and a hundred non offenders to be referred to them for these tests . |
| 20 | The Secretary of State may receive representations in the light of which he may decide to require a particular application to be referred to him for decision . |
| 21 | Seek not after new light for the searching into the private records of God … the event is registered in heaven , and we can expect no other certain notice of it , but that it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared by the Father of mercies . ’ |
| 22 | It was here , in the Syrian capital far to the north of Damascus , that the term ‘ Christian ’ was to be applied to them for the first time . |
| 23 | Even where such material is not incorporated by reference apparently reference may still be made to it for contextual or confirmatory purposes . |
| 24 | Mr Hurd needs no minders , but the 60 Tory MPs who declined to support Mrs Thatcher for leader last week , plus MEPs , this week 's Lords report and many industrialists will be looking to him for a more emollient performance in difficult circumstances . |
| 25 | Mr Hurd needs no minders , but the 60 Tory MPs who declined to support Mrs Thatcher for leader last week , plus MEPs , this week 's Lords report and many industrialists will be looking to him for a more emollient performance in difficult circumstances . |
| 26 | And what the force will say to us is that the force has overall priorities and they take precedent and that is to get sixty four P Cs back on the street , and our problems they will be looking to us for imaginative solutions |
| 27 | ( 4 ) Where a lessor is proceeding by action or otherwise to enforce a right of re-entry or forfeiture under any covenant , proviso , or stipulation in a lease , or for non-payment of rent , the court may , on application by any person claiming as an under-lessee any estate or interest in the property comprised in the lease or any part thereof , either in the lessor 's action ( if any ) or in any action brought by such person for that purpose , make an order vesting , for the whole term of the lease or any less term , the property comprised in the lease , or any part thereof in any person entitled as under-lessee to any estate or interest in such property upon such conditions as to execution of any deed or other document , payment of rent , costs , expenses , damages , compensation , giving security , or otherwise , as the court in the circumstances of each case may think fit , but in no case shall any such under-lessee be entitled to require a lease to be granted to him for any longer term than he had his original sub-lease . |
| 28 | Right , after the six thirty news sequence which is coming up directly , we 'll be talking about a fascinating report in the January edition of She magazine , about house guests who may well be coming to you for Christmas , and who may well outstay their welcome . |
| 29 | The typesetting will be arranged by the agency , after which the advertisement will be faxed to us for final proof reading and confirmation of our approval . |
| 30 | Travelling by coach you will pass through the flower carpet fields to the Franz Roozen Nurseries where you will discover the art of growing flowers and perhaps order your own bulbs which will be delivered to you for planting in the autumn . |