Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [was/were] [art] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps you were the sun for your little dragon ; and now she is strong enough , she wants to be free . ’ |
| 2 | Perhaps it was the need for stability to offset the ‘ Whads ’ sterility but , remarkably , Homstat remained with the club until 1968 . |
| 3 | So er , perhaps he was the man for the job . |
| 4 | He ca n't recall the man 's story but clearly it was a pretext for his accomplice to search the house . |
| 5 | He ca n't recall the man 's story but clearly it was a pretext for his accomplice to search the house . |
| 6 | He put the gun sideways in his mouth to give him two free hands and I thought about trying to grab it off him but I thought I 'd probably kill one of us and even if I did n't I was no match for him and he 'd just take it off me again . |
| 7 | Chiswell Street is quiet and sedate nowadays but two hundred years ago it was the powerhouse for the Whitbread brewery which churned out Porter , the dark beer named after the London market porters who knocked it back at a fearsome rate early in the morning . |
| 8 | I suppose underneath it was a cry for help . |
| 9 | After our first Report the tabloid journalists enjoyed themselves by writing provocative articles about how I was the professor for whom correct English did not matter . |
| 10 | How they were a strength for each other after our affairs ended . ’ |
| 11 | He had explained to her mother how it was an innovation for Hoggatt 's having a clerical officer on the desk instead of a junior police officer . |
| 12 | First it was a little bit of yellow fish for her landlady 's cat — the poor thing was half starved — then it was a bulb for her bedside lamp , and lastly she remembered that a friend of hers had just opened in a play in Manchester and there just might be a review in the evening paper . |
| 13 | Then it was the turn for my own hand to explore the anonymous member beyond the missing brick . |
| 14 | Maybe he was a tool for any strong hand , including that of Eadric Streona , who became ealdorman of Mercia in 1007 after what S.D. Keynes has described as a palace revolution . |
| 15 | She was involved with local government from 1970–74 when she was a councillor for Stockton rural district . |
| 16 | Instead it was a day for typical Yorkshire grit to show itself at its best . |
| 17 | The castle earned itself a place in modern history on 1 July 1969 when it was the setting for the Investiture of HRH Prince Charles as Prince of Wales . |
| 18 | I merely asked why it was a matter for us in the Cabinet Office . |
| 19 | His reply was he 'd do the same — so I knew from that moment onwards he was the man for me . ’ |
| 20 | If nothing else it was a cue for a visit to the Tates . |
| 21 | Until recently they were the location for the television series Hi Di Hi . |
| 22 | Subsequently he was a JP for Oxfordshire and active in enforcing the poor law . |