Example sentences of "[pron] was [art] [noun] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You go from er Hopeworths , Mason and Burnhams , John , Gill and Russells , Walker Brothers it was er a terribly industrial , well you could fi Road used to be all granite sets in the road , there was n't the , because there was so much traffic went up and down er it was all made of granite sets when I , when I was a kid , but my , shall I tell you what I used to do when I was a kid for my Saturday morning ? |
| 2 | He put the gun sideways in his mouth to give him two free hands and I thought about trying to grab it off him but I thought I 'd probably kill one of us and even if I did n't I was no match for him and he 'd just take it off me again . |
| 3 | I was no match for your proud , muscular strength : after a few yards I was exhausted , and you would take over , shoving the burden along with tireless energy . |
| 4 | After our first Report the tabloid journalists enjoyed themselves by writing provocative articles about how I was the professor for whom correct English did not matter . |
| 5 | In 1925 , Herbert Macaulay produced West Africa 's first successful daily newspaper , the Lagos Daily News , which was a mouthpiece for his National Democratic party . |
| 6 | Suddenly the Sergeant stood up which was a signal for us to go outside again . |
| 7 | It was agreed that we should be married as soon as Leslie had completed his parachute training , which was the reason for his being sent home . |
| 8 | Bainbridge has a lovely village green which was the setting for nothing more remarkable than the fact that I arrived there one day to walk over from Bainbridge to Cam Houses with Tony and Eddie , the landlord from my local pub , only to discover that I 'd left my walking boots back at home in Dentdale and had to do the entire walk in a pair of fur-lined cowboy boots , which earned me the nickname of Roy Rogers for the rest of the week . |
| 9 | Though he appeared no longer bent on seduction , nor even aware of her seeming absence , Isabel knew she was no match for his strength . |
| 10 | She was a sucker for his charm . |
| 11 | Sien , he stressed , was that kind of person : in other words she was a substitute for something else — as prostitutes are — and from an inferior class . |
| 12 | ‘ Had you decided she was the woman for me ? ’ |
| 13 | It 's the old woman who was the nurse for his mother . |
| 14 | If — hairbrush microphones in hand — they were not pretending to be Abba , it was Welsh star Bonnie Tyler who was the inspiration for their unenthusiastic warblings . |
| 15 | Church was a place where there was a name for everything . |
| 16 | Three days later , Richard came along to Grace early in the morning , and told her that there was a call for her . |
| 17 | Oh there was a call for her . |
| 18 | if there was a call for it round here . |
| 19 | As there was a tendency for it to rain outside this gift idea was doubly welcome ! |
| 20 | Cardinal Bernard Alfrink , for example , launched the theme of the local Church , talked of ‘ unity in diversity ’ and invented collegiality before there was a word for it . |
| 21 | oh I would of thought there was a rest for it surely , no ? |
| 22 | Andrew did you know there was a biscuit for you ? |
| 23 | Compliance sometimes led to delay in burial , though there was a waiver for anyone dying of the plague . |
| 24 | Peter Pagnamenta , the editor , came into my room to say there was a message for me to ring the Hawick police : there had been an accident involving my family but he did not know the details . |
| 25 | Strangely , when we returned home there was a message for me from Antoinette herself . |
| 26 | I won the U-Bix Copiers massive ten-man race at Birmingham , so I asked Frank Dick if there was a chance for me to get in the relay team , which had n't been announced with the main selections . |
| 27 | I 'd made up my mind there was a chance for us . |
| 28 | As far as I can recall it was further away from the wall , there was a space for somebody to walk between the wall and the bed , it 's not as shown in that photograph . |
| 29 | There was a space for it on the shelf on her father 's study amongst the others there . |
| 30 | There was a man for you . |