Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [conj] [pron] was for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wonder what it 'd be like if the phone suddenly rung and it was for me . |
| 2 | Jack grabbed her arm , not knowing whether it was for protection or reassurance . |
| 3 | But I just said that it was for the Welsh Office cos I thought if er they knew it was for a Authority you know ? |
| 4 | This was my first poem ever written and it was for a daffodil tea in our church . |
| 5 | Surrounded as I was by supremely negative images of homosexuality such as ‘ the man in the dirty mac living out a lonely old age in a filthy garret ’ , I still felt that there was for me a clear choice between expressing or repressing my homosexual desire . |
| 6 | But when , after those two years , the valley had almost imperceptibly widened and there was for the first time , not those black enclosing cliffs , but the vista of a normal life , even of happiness , a landscape over which it was possible to believe the sun might shine , she had become unwittingly embroiled in the racial politics of her school . |
| 7 | I do n't know whether it was for devilment but Gary says , ‘ No , I do n't think so . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't think Simone would have mentioned it if she had n't felt that it was for your own good , ’ he murmured . |
| 9 | Eh , and they , I mean they did n't say whether it was for one year or three years in that piece of paper anyway did they ? . |