Example sentences of "because [pron] was for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ Because I was for so many years a one man operation , ’ he says , ‘ I was always right at the centre of things . |
| 2 | It played a very , very important part in David 's career , because it was for that film that he wrote ‘ Space Oddity'/ Most of the stuff on the film came from the Deram label but I thought we ought to have a very special piece of material — some new material — and something that would show how very fine and inventive a writer David was . |
| 3 | Could they only stand it because it was for a short unreal interval , whereas for him it was the real bit of his life , this little pocket of otherness , of ‘ unreality ’ , but for him it had been central , the power house , the full granary , the fulcrum . |
| 4 | ‘ … the girls were very excited about it , because it was for them and there was an opportunity to use the equipment ’ |
| 5 | And had Leith any compunction about what she was doing on her own behalf , because it was for sure that , having given her an ultimatum , Naylor Massingham would create hell on the day he learned — as , sure as her name was not Rosemary , one day he must — that he had claimed her as his girlfriend for nothing , then that compunction vanished without trace . |