Example sentences of "[pron] was a [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Suddenly the Sergeant stood up which was a signal for us to go outside again . |
| 4 | She was a sucker for his charm . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Church was a place where there was a name for everything . |
| 7 | Three days later , Richard came along to Grace early in the morning , and told her that there was a call for her . |
| 8 | Oh there was a call for her . |
| 9 | if there was a call for it round here . |
| 10 | As there was a tendency for it to rain outside this gift idea was doubly welcome ! |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | oh I would of thought there was a rest for it surely , no ? |
| 13 | Andrew did you know there was a biscuit for you ? |
| 14 | Compliance sometimes led to delay in burial , though there was a waiver for anyone dying of the plague . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Strangely , when we returned home there was a message for me from Antoinette herself . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I 'd made up my mind there was a chance for us . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | There was a space for it on the shelf on her father 's study amongst the others there . |
| 21 | There was a man for you . |
| 22 | His health was failing and there was a subscription for his return to England . |
| 23 | You see the piece I just read is a monologue and if I 'd known there was a competition for it I 'd have sent it there rather than |
| 24 | There was a bed for them you see . |
| 25 | The fact that 60 per cent of organic food had to be imported , he claimed , proved that there was a market for it in the UK. * The Prince of Wales has been accused of creating consumer confusion by lending his name and crest to the sale of " traditionally reared " lamb sold through the Tesco supermarket chain . |
| 26 | My step brother , Tommy , do you know the original well Mr was a sales rep for Bokes couriers , and er his wife used to make pickles , homemade , and she us Mr used to give his friends a jar of pickles occasionally and er from that the idea of selling them , cos it ou after they 'd started distributing amongst his friends he got the idea that there was a market for it , so my step-brother Tommy er started to work with Mrs we used to call them Mrs but her name was , Street you know where Street is , well on the left hand side of Street about oh at the back of the first row of houses in Street , there was a , a small open space and Mr had a big shed put there , and er started buying the pickling onions and er all the women who wished to started skinning onions at so much a bag for Mr and er he 'd gradually built himself up but me step- brother Tommy was er working full time helping Mrs to pick the onions and , and that , that 's how Mac 's Pickles started was just from a mere fact of him being a commercial traveller and he 'd di distribute them to his friends and created the , a market for himself really ac actually they , they , they did have a van driver and a van , a van to deliver them as they gradually increased the supply and they used to deliver them all , all around the area . |
| 27 | This was now ; there was a reason for everything ; it was simply a matter of courage and patience . |
| 28 | She told me that she was relieved to know that there was a reason for it , even if the root cause had occurred so long ago . |
| 29 | Erm not unless there was a reason for it . |
| 30 | Er they night go back to it then if they really wanted to , or usually there was a reason for it . |