Example sentences of "it [was/were] [art] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact there was something almost monastic about it : as if it were a retreat for much needed solitude and quiet study . |
| 2 | I do n't think Lou remembers how hard we worked , but it was every weekend for 18 months , going over and over these songs until we had all these dismembered arrangements we became famous for . |
| 3 | It was every worker for themselves . |
| 4 | Stirling shouted that it was every man for himself . |
| 5 | What a contrast to the previous student flats she 'd shared , where it was every man for himself ! |
| 6 | It was every man for himself and no concessions given . |
| 7 | From now on , it was every man for himself . |
| 8 | But now , Carey knew , it was every man for himself against the past . |
| 9 | It was no holidays for a |
| 10 | Seb protested that it was no work for a girl , realising that the horses might panic when they saw the manor burning , but Carrie said , ‘ I know the stalls even better than you . |
| 11 | It was no way for the holder to go out . |
| 12 | He came up and swore he 'd never go down again , it was no life for an animal ] And he stuck to that . |
| 13 | It was no problem for me to post a crew , and I did , and many of you must know I did post WAAF at the same time . |
| 14 | It was no Christmas for me this Christmas . |
| 15 | It was no time for me to be getting weepy . |
| 16 | It was no time for niceties . |
| 17 | I felt that it was no time for living dangerously . |
| 18 | With the economy in the doldrums and the Pound struggling to keep its head above water , it was no time for Terry to splash out a couple of hundred quid beside the seaside . |
| 19 | I doubted that , but it was no time for me to talk out of turn . |
| 20 | This is what Gustave told me : that it was no sadness for him to get rid of the paperweight , because he had another which did the work just as efficiently . |
| 21 | Yet I did , in some small way , feel that the house was part of me , and I liked its creaking bouncing floors and its spartan coldness ( it was no place for lolling about ) ; its medley of doors — some Norfolk latch , some brass door-knobbed ; the ancient cloudy glass in its leaded windows ; the odd corners , shelves and cupboards ; its air of fragility , of dignity — for it was indeed very old ; and above all , its village shop smell , of paraffin , strong kitchen soap , cough sweets and aniseed balls , prunes , string , and tobacco . |
| 22 | It was no place for a man to live . |
| 23 | When we followed her into the bedroom she ordered us out , saying it was no place for kids . |
| 24 | It was no place for a gentleman . |
| 25 | It was no place for idle talk then : there was too much action for gossip . |
| 26 | It was no place for Cedric . |
| 27 | Her worst was when she got in the way ; backstage timing sometimes had to be precise , and it was no place for someone who was still taking in the sights . |
| 28 | The judge at that hearing , Mr Justice Chadwick , said it was no answer for Mr Maxwell to say he signed the forms in reliance on the signature of his brother Kevin . |
| 29 | I cried — a bit of an exaggeration , but it was no moment for exactitudes , ‘ And now I 've got only one kidney . |
| 30 | A frank talk was a help , but it was no substitute for knowing what it was like to have to milk cows at the crack of dawn every morning or mend fences , or battle with the elements , and so he began a series of annual stays on Duchy farms . |