Example sentences of "was [adv] [noun sg] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I meant , it was only lust for you — not that I — ’ It did n't seem to make any more sense this way . |
| 2 | It was finally time for me to pack up my tent and vanish into the summer afternoon . |
| 3 | When I visited Aunt Louise there was just time for us to have a meal in one of the High Street cafés before I caught the bus home . |
| 4 | Time was now important to him : it had been a lazy year and , as he had told Levy , there was still work for him to do . |
| 5 | There was still food for them to eat and Mrs Rundle was still there . |
| 6 | As Devon Loch struggled up there was still time for him to get going again and hold off E.S.B. , but his hind legs seemed not to function and he could not move on . |
| 7 | Yes , there was probably room for us all . |
| 8 | It was nearly time for her to take up position at Ludgate Circus , but first she had to get Ruby to leave . |
| 9 | It was now time for him to call in his battlegroup to tell his men of their achievements . |
| 10 | It was surely time for me to take life more seriously . |
| 11 | Helen said , ‘ It was n't time for him to be home yet . ’ |
| 12 | The remaining void shields were doing their best to bleed hostile energies away as heat , but there was n't time for it to radiate away . |
| 13 | There was n't room for her to stay in the flat with the three other girls so they decided that Katrine should stay in Piazza Pitti in Debbie 's flat . |
| 14 | Well perhaps there was n't room for her sit in the back ! |
| 15 | And that building there , the one with the green roof , that 's Ebenezer Chapel where we used to have lessons some mornings because there was n't room for us all in the school . |