Example sentences of "was for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chinese man had wanted to do a Celtic torque in plain black , very fashionable at the time , but Jasper 's wish was for something less austere . |
| 2 | It was a short hop for Foucard to suggest that as her colleague was such a dull man it was unlikely the flat had been searched for something belonging to him , more likely that the hunt was for something belonging to Rain or Oliver . |
| 3 | But the summerhouse was for something special . |
| 4 | Jackie he was he was looking he was for something and he was looking for something in a hurry and I could n't find out I like T-shirts in one pile sweat shirts in another pullovers in another jeans in another but they were all sort of |
| 5 | It was for something that happened about five or six years ago . |
| 6 | No , it was for himself to protect his dallta , as usual . |
| 7 | ‘ I asked if it was for himself or his mother . |
| 8 | Their private parts were firmly jammed in the wringer and all it needed was for somebody to the rescue . |
| 9 | But the uneasy excitement that smouldered deep within her , like a banked-down fire waiting to be stirred into leaping life , was for what might come after . |
| 10 | The Irish hierarchy immediately campaigned against what was for them a drastic solution . |
| 11 | It was for them that Paul Rotha spoke when he declared : ‘ The dialogue film , at its best , can only be a poor substitute for the stage . ’ |
| 12 | Most of these new rich were only one step removed from village life , and to have a brand new ‘ cottage style ’ house , and on an enormous scale , was for them extremely appealing . |
| 13 | ‘ Are we still the people of God ? ’ was for them very far from being an academic question , but was in urgent need of an answer . |
| 14 | The boys were younger than me but I remember them coming to school — and what a job that was for them . |
| 15 | Although the loss of the transports assembled or under construction at Le Havre delivered a serious blow to the French plans , others were still being built or collected at ports all along the Bay of Biscay , from Lorient [ or L'Orient ] to Bayonne , including Nantes , La Rochelle and Bordeaux , and the plan , as the English government knew , was for them to assemble at Brest , where the Commander-in-Chief of the naval side of the invasion , Admiral Conflans [ Hubert de Brienne , Comte de Conflans ] had arrived in early July . |
| 16 | The intention was for them to be escorted by the combined fleets from Brest and Toulon and the combination of the two , to outnumber any force likely to be brought against them , was a vital part of the French plan . |
| 17 | This win was for them . |
| 18 | The policy was for them to remain around the fringes of a raid and try and pick off stragglers , leaving the ‘ infighting ’ to the Hurricanes . |
| 19 | They did n't feel for example they could go into the advice centre , they did n't feel it was for them . |
| 20 | The world of nature was for them constructed on a mathematical plan , things were generated from numbers an idea to whose mystical overtones Aristotle objected . |
| 21 | Yet there were also great difficulties in fitting these large numbers of people into what was for them a new and strange society . |
| 22 | It was for them that the vision of a transformation in political , social and economic relationships held greatest appeal . |
| 23 | When they were born , my only thought for their future was for them to be happy and healthy . |
| 24 | The idea was for them to place special devices at these loci -devices that the regular maintenance crews would think were innocuous parts of the complex of delicate wiring . |
| 25 | All 72 of the privatised National Bus Company subsidiaries left the best scheme , which was for them the equivalent of TOPS and broke the link between pension rights and the rise in the cost of living . |
| 26 | All 72 of the privatised National Bus Company subsidiaries left the best scheme , which was for them the equivalent of TOPS and broke the link between pension rights and the rise in the cost of living . |
| 27 | And the door pit is about eighteen inches of steel and that was for them to puncture the thing , to puncture their whisky , little barrels you see . |
| 28 | Tait , with William Thomson , had published a Treatise on Natural Philosophy in 1867 which became a standard advanced textbook because it treated physics from the point of view of conservation of energy — fathering the doctrine , as became two Cambridge men , upon Newton : the ‘ return to Newton ’ was for them the key to modernity . |
| 29 | And the stronger they were , the worse it was for them at the end of the picture . |
| 30 | The French would be content so long as the arrangement was for them to sell abroad ; there can , however , be no question of France permitting her massive investment in nuclear power to be undermined by making it possible for French consumers to buy in from abroad . |