Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] be for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The way they 'd always been for his people : the fishers , the hunters . |
| 2 | It had all been for nothing ; the fear , the guilt , the deaths … . |
| 3 | The mad drive up the M4 with pain like barbed hooks turning in his arm had all been for nothing . |
| 4 | All of her sweet , loving nature that she 'd turned in on herself , waiting for this one moment in her life , this moment of truth , and it had all been for nothing . |
| 5 | So it had all been for nothing ! |
| 6 | His deterioration through Alzheimer 's Disease with its abundant frustrations had long been for him a physical and mental martyrdom . |
| 7 | The station had always been for her a place instinct with glory ; its function beautified it immeasurably in her eyes . |
| 8 | Thousands of school children , all of them well over sixteen , were crammed there into a large tall gilt room , and told not to insult the French , not to talk to Arabs , and not to go to Montmartre : then an English lady stood up and said that Paris had always been for her a source inépuisable de something , and everyone clapped , and then they were all turned out again , rather quickly , for the room was clearly needed for something else . |
| 9 | All that bottled-up vitriol for the man he 'd been waiting for had actually been for her . |
| 10 | But before we jump to the conclusion that Pound had simply had a brainstorm , or had been trapped by misplaced compassion for Dunning as a lame duck , we ought to consider another possibility — that imagism , and Pound 's endorsement of Ford 's insistence on ‘ the prose tradition ’ , had never been for him more than an aberration , though in the short term a very profitable one , from a way of feeling that impelled him always toward the cantabile , a proclivity that would , in the interests of melody , tolerate notably eccentric diction . |
| 11 | She had no intention of putting herself deeper into Luke 's bad books ; all she wanted now was for her involvement with Woodline Design to proceed peacefully to its end . |