Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pron] [be] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | The cap they showed us was for an elephant , a massive thing . |
| 32 | But I just said that it was for the Welsh Office cos I thought if er they knew it was for a Authority you know ? |
| 33 | They thought it was for real , and panicked . |
| 34 | Perhaps they thought it was for unwanted babies ; she did start to explain about the new home for blind children , but never had to finish . |
| 35 | ‘ They said it was for the best , ’ said Gloria . |
| 36 | ‘ They said it was for lack of printing plates , ’ said Mohammed Salekh , the party leader , who has to submit articles to the authorities for approval . |
| 37 | They said it was for her own protection and they felt she might not surrender to the court . |
| 38 | They asked me to set up a buffet for a press launch , then they said it was for me ! ’ |
| 39 | At a later interview he was asked for what the Nobel had been awarded ; Eliot replied that he assumed it was for " the entire corpus " and the reporter asked , " When did you publish that ? " |
| 40 | He guessed they were for the morals group , since neither he nor Mrs Frizzell ever really read a book , and he put them down again , still mystified . |
| 41 | He thought it was for sex . |
| 42 | When Mellor joined colleagues for yesterday 's Cabinet meeting , he knew it was for the last time . |
| 43 | Despite his brotherly teasing and criticisms , he was devoted to her and would not be speaking in this fashion unless he felt it was for the best . |
| 44 | He said it was for him the perfect realization of Sibelius as a passionate but anti-sensual composer . |
| 45 | But he said it was for you and gave me the phone back to take a message . |