Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | she was for the top of the hockey team and I were for the football |
| 2 | It hit me just how right Anne had been when she said that teaching was the only job I knew — and how horribly ill-equipped I was for anything else . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In fact , I was for some time of the opinion that this huge challenge ahead of us could not be surmounted without my bringing in additional staff from outside . |
| 5 | Full of admiration as I was for these brave , sturdy survivors , it was kidneys I was now interested in . |
| 6 | How thankful I was for the strength these two shared with me ! |
| 7 | For reasons which are too complicated to bother with , I had left Scotland , where I was for Christmas , on December 30th to go to the Isle of Wight and spend that most braw , bricht , moonlicht and Caledonian of celebrations , Hogmanay in the Deep South . |
| 8 | In passing , I would like to say how grateful I was for this friendly and sympathetic , as well as informative , advice from the Humanist Association . |
| 9 | I can not resist the admission that I was profoundly flattered when a telephone call from Harold Wilson at Downing Street invited me to mediate on the basis that , so far as they could see , I was for the moment the only tolerable candidate . |
| 10 | I was for resolving this phenomenon into ship-wrecks , and supposing that they might have been flung on these coasts out of some unhappy vessels ; but this solution of mine is absolutely denied , from the frequency and regularity of the appearance of these seeds . " |
| 11 | I was for resolving this phenomenon into ship-wrecks , and supposing that they might have been flung on these coasts out of some unhappy vessels ; but this solution of mine is absolutely denied , from the frequency and regularity of the appearance of these seeds . " |
| 12 | Anyway , this man came up to where I was standing with my mother , and asked if I was for hire . |
| 13 | Well , I was crazy … sure I was for a time . |
| 14 | Why , you were as hot for me as I was for you ! ’ |
| 15 | Like the rest of the family , you assumed I was for sale . |
| 16 | Which I was for shying off anyway , because I do n't think it 's any of our , our business . |
| 17 | Which is why I 'm ringing , ’ Rosemary revealed , and confessed , ‘ I have n't let myself face how lonely I was for the sound of his voice . |
| 18 | ‘ Because I was for so many years a one man operation , ’ he says , ‘ I was always right at the centre of things . |
| 19 | ‘ I think he was better casting than I was for the part . |
| 20 | No , I was for today and I 've got ta go back the week after I 'm due . |
| 21 | His was for thirty-five years the pre-eminent retail business at the upper end of the market , supplying tableware and massive buffet plate to the jewel house and the Russian court ( Tsarinas Anna and Catherine , and Count Brobinski ) . |
| 22 | I simply assumed his was for later on , like mine . ’ |
| 23 | Two March records , which were for 1972 , may have involved only one bird , as may two August records in 1973 . |
| 24 | On the subject of my aunts , I must share with you something which still makes me smile when I think back on those days of yore , which were for us children — halcyon days . |
| 25 | In 1987 , 2.16 million summonses were issued under this Administrative Default Procedure , two thirds of which were for less than £500 — there were only 1.98 million in 1983 . |
| 26 | I think that I am correct in saying that the two original high level computer languages were Cobol and Prolog , which were for developing business and general/scientific applications respectively . |
| 27 | Other old foundations which were for locational or other reasons less well suited to the changing situation , stagnated or declined . |
| 28 | Have those sexual practices which were for long condemned as " deviant " or " perverted " really become general ? |
| 29 | We located 5874 hospital records , 1217 of which were for demented patients aged 40 to 64 years at presentation ; 707 records were either lost or contained insufficient information to apply the diagnostic criteria . |
| 30 | This consists of four separate buildings : the baptistery , the cathedral , the campanile and the cemetery ( this last , the Camposanto , was badly damaged in the Second World War but is now largely rebuilt apart from the beautiful frescoes which were for the most part beyond repair ) . |