Example sentences of "was [adv] for [pers pn] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told her I had a job for Duncan and there was money in it and that was enough for her to yell ‘ Duncan ! ’ so loud I felt I heard it without the need of the phone . |
| 2 | A quick glance between Rose and the girls was enough for them to know that it was better to make no mention of their elder brother . |
| 3 | Some needed only to know that we existed — that was enough for them to throw themselves wholeheartedly into the gay life . |
| 4 | Yet he could not stop short of that moment , and that was enough for him to know . |
| 5 | ‘ What she did say , though , was enough for me to know that Leith and I wo n't be moving to London . ’ |
| 6 | Well the main squad would come in about two o'clock or three o'clock and er was already for them to start working . |
| 7 | The policewoman shot her a look which said that it was not for her to say so , even if she , herself , had been thinking it . |
| 8 | It was not for her to criticise him . |
| 9 | If he felt that his work lay here , it was not for her to question his decision , but she sometimes wished that something might happen to make him change his mind . |
| 10 | He had banged his glass on the table and it was not for her to disobey . |
| 11 | It was not for me to tell him . |
| 12 | However , it was not for me to tell him how to treat his advisers , and half an hour later three civil servants arrived with their notebooks whereupon I dictated my suggestions to them . |
| 13 | The Commissioner pointed out that it was not for him to decide how statutes should be interpreted but he was satisfied that the complaints about odours from the factory had not been ignored . |
| 14 | Since George always did the arriving early and the saving of places , it was not for him to complain . |
| 15 | Tuan Ti Fo smiled , knowing it was not for him to ask , nor for them to answer . |
| 16 | I knew when we unwrapped it , it was not for us to meddle with . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It was not for you to say , ’ said Sarah proudly . |
| 18 | In a secondary sort of way she knew that , beyond the opportunity to please and placate Maman , there was more for her to give if she should eat the horrible spinach . |
| 19 | that he was here for us to receive . |
| 20 | It was n't for you to see the point , he said . |
| 21 | She was coldly angry now that he should so calmly assume that what he desired was there for him to take . |
| 22 | Life was there for them to enjoy . |
| 23 | But she said , after a while , in a pause that was there for her to fill , " I ca n't , Andrew . " |
| 24 | I suppose I started making records because , after being sacked from the radio , which is what every DJ dreams of , it seemed like there was nowhere for me to go . ’ |
| 25 | There was nowhere for him to put his feet . |
| 26 | By the time they returned to the table for the Christmas pudding John Harbour had moved and there was nowhere for her to sit except beside O'Hara . |
| 27 | They had not been asked to sit down and indeed there was nowhere for them to do so . |
| 28 | There was n't much space along here , and he could no longer rely on people taking one look and then getting out of his way because there was nowhere for them to go . |
| 29 | It would not go anywhere ; there was nowhere for it to go . |
| 30 | There was nowhere for us to put our belongings . |