Example sentences of "[vb past] [that] [pron] [was/were] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had taken a week to obtain , and had Hapsburg officialdom realized that it was for him rather than Aranyos it would have been unlikely to arrive before the end of the war . |
| 2 | Cigarettes were placed on the table in front of you which meant that they were for everybody . |
| 3 | Perhaps just because she was Bob 's fiancée — but Tessa felt that it was for herself as well . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But Caspar , belatedly gallant , said that it was for him to lead the way . |