Example sentences of "[pron] was [art] [noun sg] for i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Had you decided she was the woman for me ? ’ |
| 2 | Peter Pagnamenta , the editor , came into my room to say there was a message for me to ring the Hawick police : there had been an accident involving my family but he did not know the details . |
| 3 | Strangely , when we returned home there was a message for me from Antoinette herself . |
| 4 | I won the U-Bix Copiers massive ten-man race at Birmingham , so I asked Frank Dick if there was a chance for me to get in the relay team , which had n't been announced with the main selections . |
| 5 | Joe had written to me suggesting that there was a post for me in Japan ( available through the good offices of Stephen Spender , who had just returned from there with a commission from the Dean of the Faculty of Letters at Tohoku University ) to go and teach English , in the poet-teacher tradition for which it was famous . |
| 6 | It worked : next morning there was a note for me in the Date Line : Audience with HM the King , 2 pm in the royal palace . |
| 7 | I called in the other day to see if there was a package for me . |
| 8 | ‘ We got ourselves into one of those silly situations , in the middle of 1883 , which meant there was no way for me to remain . |
| 9 | I began to realize that there was no happiness for me in life . |
| 10 | ‘ I observed that there was no letter for me . ’ |
| 11 | There was no place for me . |
| 12 | The implication is that I have had to leave as there was no job for me after this restructure . |
| 13 | ‘ There was no reason for me to pull in . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ There was no reason for me to go on living . |
| 15 | There was no reason for me to fear it . |
| 16 | There was no need for me to get up and prowl around while the rest of the family was sleeping because I could read all night , if I wanted to , and if I did n't get up until the middle of the day , no one seemed to mind very much . |
| 17 | By this time there was no need for me to deny hunger : I felt none . |
| 18 | ‘ Once Kate had left home , there was no need for me to stay . |
| 19 | I believed for many years that I could move towards the future and leave the past behind , that there was no need for me to return home . |
| 20 | There was no need for me to be there too . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , so there was no need for me to explain . ’ |
| 22 | There was no need for me to be convinced of the high standard of the staff and work of the CIEFL on arrival , since we at Lancaster have learned to regard the Institute 's graduates as among the best qualified ELT specialists in the world . |
| 23 | ‘ There was every reason for me to suspect that the present was just such a case : the medical cause of the death was perfectly well known to the family — indeed I had sent them a copy of the pathologist 's report . |
| 24 | I did n't wonder why she 'd taken to using a typewriter when her last messages to me were handwritten , and I did n't ask myself how Edouard could have talked to me all that time without mentioning there was an envelope for me . ’ |
| 25 | It was no problem for me to post a crew , and I did , and many of you must know I did post WAAF at the same time . |
| 26 | It was no Christmas for me this Christmas . |
| 27 | It was no time for me to be getting weepy . |
| 28 | I doubted that , but it was no time for me to talk out of turn . |
| 29 | Whenever I went to Fisherton Street it was a must for me to go to Pickfords , the carriers for The Great Western Railway , just to gaze in the window , for right in the centre was a beautiful scale model of one of their pantechnicons , some two feet in length . |
| 30 | It was a privilege for me to be invited to one of the Criterion Evenings which were held at irregular intervals at 24 Russell Square . |