Example sentences of "was for [pers pn] to go " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baldwin answered with commendable frankness : what lie wanted , what he thought the King himself wanted , was for him to go , if he had to , as quietly as possible , and thereby to make things easier for his successor . |
| 2 | And he went and told them how necessary it was for him to go to Canada , in the interests of the firm . |
| 3 | Deal or no mysterious deal , now that it had been established that he had not tracked her down all she wanted was for him to go . |
| 4 | Now all she wanted was for him to go , so she could sit down and think it over . |
| 5 | The idea was for me to go on the high-wire sixty feet above ground — on the shoulders of a Czechoslovakian circus performer . |