Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [was/were] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several months into my secondary education , this working provided what was for me the greatest locospotting thrill of the decade . |
| 2 | He says it was for their funeral but now they 've got nothing . |
| 3 | When I painted it was for myself , I could afford the luxury of spending two years on a painting ; I did n't have to worry about whether anyone was interested in it or not or whether I would exhibit it in a commercial gallery or whether it would be sold . |
| 4 | They did n't feel for example they could go into the advice centre , they did n't feel it was for them . |
| 5 | Jackie he was he was looking he was for something and he was looking for something in a hurry and I could n't find out I like T-shirts in one pile sweat shirts in another pullovers in another jeans in another but they were all sort of |
| 6 | It had a Birmingham postmark and was addressed to ‘ Robert Hilton ’ and she assumed it was for her son . |
| 7 | Shapira 's explanation is that Zoila had reached what was for her a satisfactory level of interaction and was not motivated to progress . |
| 8 | Of course we thought we were for it . |
| 9 | Everything was wonderful , he said , and she knew it was for him . |
| 10 | Then not long after , we were both walking under some scaffolding — she was already under it and out of view — when a workman whistled , so I knew it was for me , not her . |
| 11 | I knew it was for me to approach the Colonel again , rather than vice versa . |
| 12 | As soon as I saw it , I knew it was for you . ’ |
| 13 | They were her protectors , older , stronger , more clever and brave , and yet they had assumed it was for her to say what they were to do . |
| 14 | He wrote a few letters on my behalf and I just did n't think he was for me because of what I saw at the time . |
| 15 | And what do you think it was for me ? |
| 16 | Think it was for his birthday , yeah , or Christmas , right , she gave an intravenous drip filled with speed solution |
| 17 | I think it was for you . |
| 18 | There was a knock on the door in the early hours of the morning , she had curlers in her hair , and my father , thinking it was for him , told her not to panic . |
| 19 | They said it was for her own protection and they felt she might not surrender to the court . |
| 20 | She took the call and said it was for me . |
| 21 | They asked me to set up a buffet for a press launch , then they said it was for me ! ’ |
| 22 | He said it was for him the perfect realization of Sibelius as a passionate but anti-sensual composer . |
| 23 | But he said it was for you and gave me the phone back to take a message . |
| 24 | So I said yes , I we I explained why I wa I was asking the question , I said it was for my son , and er I said , but mine 's just a , a microwave I sa and he said , well he said they re the combination ones now he said are really you know , what you need . |
| 25 | ‘ Did she say they were for you ? ’ |
| 26 | His idea of the " popular play " is important , since his devotion to the music hall and his belief that the poet can only be socially useful in the theatre spurred him on to achieve what was for him the unachievable : the plays bear all the marks of their deliberate and laborious composition . |