Example sentences of "were [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I wanted to take him in while his eyes were off me . |
| 2 | The annual demands to bring back the rope , the murmurings about repatriating immigrants , the calls to purge the nation of social welfare scroungers , were for them a sojourn in purgatory . |
| 3 | Janacek writes words as he writes music — the two were for him virtually indivisible , and in these abrupt , epigrammatic paragraphs , sometimes brutally down to earth , sometimes fanciful , you can hear him talking — often shouting in your ear . |
| 4 | All the phone calls they received were for him , and Gina never had any mail . |
| 5 | Green 's mountains are and were for him unlike those of Scotland with their purple grandeur and exotic shapes , nor did they have their awesome desolation . |
| 6 | Irwin 's first public act upon arriving in India was to appeal , in terms that were for him impassioned , for harmony between Muslims and Hindus . |
| 7 | The two items in the struggle for the liberty of the Church to which Anselm was committed were for him not negotiable either by himself or the successor of the pope who had declared lay investiture and clerical homage to be irreconcilable with the law of the Church . |
| 8 | It did n't need a Russian scholar to understand that the bald man was claiming that the documents and the guns were for him , only food and drink for the ‘ businessmen ’ . |
| 9 | Any fears , however , that Havel 's talent might be going off were for me resolved by the broadcast version of Redevelopment , given a dramatised reading by the RSC in February under the title Slum Clearance . |
| 10 | Embarrassing as those moments were for me , I would not wish to imply that I in any way blame Mr Farraday , who is in no sense an unkind person ; he was , I am sure , merely enjoying the sort of bantering which in the United States , no doubt , is a sign of a good , friendly understanding between employer and employee , indulged in as a kind of affectionate sport . |
| 11 | I mean , he had no idea about what possibilities there were for me and he just looked at it as a very , very dodgy profession to want to go into . |
| 12 | His last words , she said , as he was driven away , were for me . |
| 13 | I thought your efforts were for me . ’ |
| 14 | Summer outings the next year were for her a misery . |
| 15 | She was , in any case , not sure how they were , or how they were for her . |
| 16 | Of course we thought we were for it . |
| 17 | Gladstone , Cobden and Bright were for it . |
| 18 | The three Established Church representatives set themselves against ; the other four who were Free Churchmen were for it . |
| 19 | In a 1977 vote initiated by ASTMS at Greenock , 13,000 voted against union representation , and only 44 employees were for it . |
| 20 | ‘ Did she say they were for you ? ’ |
| 21 | The things I wrote were for you . |
| 22 | Now , all these things are not just for this woman , they were for you , and they 're for me . |
| 23 | Those were for us a real burden . |
| 24 | On the subject of my aunts , I must share with you something which still makes me smile when I think back on those days of yore , which were for us children — halcyon days . |
| 25 | If only the work were worth it . |
| 26 | The pictures , though , were worth it . |
| 27 | ‘ They were worth it . ’ |
| 28 | He was also quite good at making enemies by speaking his mind when he thought the subject and audience were worth it . |
| 29 | As long as it were worth it ! |
| 30 | And when we were apart and my thoughts were about him , my body absorbed my mind 's obsession and throbbed for him . |