Example sentences of "be what [pron] had [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guilt and exhaustion is what she had felt for the next year . |
| 2 | We knew her and we also knew that she was taking food to a different set of prisoners ; they were beginning to scatter over an increasingly wide area as there was now no hope of an immediate Allied invasion of northern Italy , which was what everyone had hoped for . |
| 3 | That , after all , was what they had come for . |
| 4 | Owen realized that was what they had come for . |
| 5 | But he tempered the apprehensiveness with a shrug-of-the-shoulders-and-oh-what-the-hell attitude which told me that in his view the experience , and not the heroics of the impression he might create , was what mattered , was what he would enjoy , was what he had come for . |
| 6 | After all , that was what he had come for . |
| 7 | He was walking in and out of the bays , studying the bookshelves as though that was what he had come for . |
| 8 | All she wanted to do was yield to it , because it was what she had wanted for the whole time she had been with him . |
| 9 | He thought it was what she had come for . |
| 10 | It was what she had longed for . |