Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , this man came up to where I was standing with my mother , and asked if I was for hire . |
| 2 | Like the rest of the family , you assumed I was for sale . |
| 3 | For reasons which are too complicated to bother with , I had left Scotland , where I was for Christmas , on December 30th to go to the Isle of Wight and spend that most braw , bricht , moonlicht and Caledonian of celebrations , Hogmanay in the Deep South . |
| 4 | During the subsequent week , she had ridden three winners , only one of which was for Bill Templeman . |
| 5 | She lost the argument , which was about her reservation , which was for berth No. 7 in English which the conductor obstinately read as 1 in French . |
| 6 | ‘ Had the care manager stuck to the initial referral alone , which was for respite care , she would have sorted them out for that , and that would have been it . ’ |
| 7 | The face was hardest to tan , and this model , which was for professionals and cost £5,912 plus VAT , featured three facial tanning units , one to tan the front of the face and two others to tan the sides . |
| 8 | The torchlit streets , as he passed through them , were not given up as usual to the cats and the late-night lovers or revellers but were occupied by knots of busy , muttering men , putting up ladders and hoardings , clearing mud , hanging carpets for tomorrow 's Festival which was for St Nicholas and himself , not for the burghers of Bruges . |
| 9 | When I , when I came here I saw a shop in which was for sale . |
| 10 | He was looking at her as though she were for sale . |
| 11 | Here , there was no ambiguity ; no difficulty over marriage or courtship ; no women at all but the camp-followers , or the whores who were for sale , with other merchandise , from the second , vagabond camp that stood as a fringe to the first . |
| 12 | ‘ Every day hundreds of people — chained , pinioned and fettered were brought to [ the sultan 's hall ] and those who were for execution were executed , those for torture tortured , and those for beating beaten . |
| 13 | He sent the paintings but none were for sale . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm not surprised she was for cats ' meat , ’ Biddy said . |
| 15 | We 'd been saying how awful it was , how sorry we were for Connie . |
| 16 | at least some latitude , within the system , for personal judgement about individual special circumstances — we were for example impressed by what Debenhams told us about their practice of offering all applicants who were refused credit the opportunity of a review of their proposal by a senior manager , ; |
| 17 | Brownstones cosied up to slums , police cars were armoured , and everything was for sale . |
| 18 | One was for socks , for ‘ the single bed ’ . |
| 19 | This one was for £500 cheque fraud . |
| 20 | The old records are undated , but one was for autumn . |
| 21 | This one was for show , to see people , to hold the sort of meeting he was holding now . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's terrible that all these quacks can come along without proper qualifications , ’ Lipsky complained , forgetting that he himself had set up as a dentist without qualifications , there being as yet no legal requirement for special training as there was for doctors . |
| 23 | There was for boys and for girls . |
| 24 | It is then possible to see how much room there was for choice of strategies in terms of competitiveness and jobs . |
| 25 | And it remains finally to ask what place there was for trade unionism in the Labour Party 's revised prospectus . |
| 26 | There was for example the capacity of an expanding middle class to afford their own homes . |
| 27 | There was for example no concept of " spending to save " . |
| 28 | Lord Reid went on to point out that this case was not of the type which would usually have been described as in restraint of trade ; there was for example no provision which prevented the plaintiff from working once the contract had run its course . |
| 29 | Some of these newsreels I might say were faked , I do n't mean George Albert Smith 's were faked , but erm there was for example the case erm of the Boer War . |
| 30 | During the inter-war period what trade union support there was for family allowances ( generally it was feared that allowances would lead to a wholesale reduction in wages and reduce the bargaining power of male workers ) , was based on the hope that they would lead to a withdrawal of married women from the workforce . |