Example sentences of "[conj] he [was/were] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Floy stood where he was for a moment , looking up at the great , shining edifice that was Tara , Ireland 's Bright Palace , the great legendary Citadel of Light , the home of the Wolfkings … |
| 2 | ODDLY enough , although he was for almost 50 years a pillar of the British dance band scene , by his own account Joe Crossman 's only popular acclaim was given to him in the United States for his beautiful alto saxophone solo on Stanley Black 's mid-Forties recording of Django Reinhardt 's ballad ‘ Nuages ’ . |
| 3 | But now , after his near miss with Hoomey , Nails remembered that he was for the long drop next time — no more cautions . |
| 4 | He is also far more relaxed than he was for the majority of his Formula One career , laughing and joking with reporters and rivals . |
| 5 | A man like Richard Hamilton , for instance , who 's now pretty well known in this country , was much better known on the Continent of Europe and in America , in Switzerland , in Germany , in Northern Italy — Milan particularly — much better known there than he was for decades . |
| 6 | GRAMOPHONE has published a number of Rust 's discographical works , including British Dance Bands on Record , 1911–1945 ( in association with Sandy Forbes ) , and he was for many years a regular contributor to this magazine . |
| 7 | They had one son and three daughters ; their son , John Bridge Aspinall , became a QC , as did his grandfather of the same name , and he was for five years the city remembrancer until his early death in 1932 . |
| 8 | Hitler was never again to be at the centre of public attention as he was for a while following the plot of 20 July 1944 . |
| 9 | For rejoinders to the commonsense objections against a moving earth , Wilkins was indebted to Galileo , as he was for striking analogies between the earth and moon . |
| 10 | When the king had died peacefully in bed in 1968 he had been left exactly as he was for the first six months to make sure he was n't simply astral-travelling . |