Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] be for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last thing I wanted was for some motorist to hit one of my owls just when it was establishing itself . |
| 2 | Maybe they had been for old times the old times that had never really existed . |
| 3 | All it took was for one saleslady to tell her she looked lovely and Mrs McMahon was persuaded . |
| 4 | The luncheon table was laid as it had been for 50 Christmases , with a pyramid of polished John Standish apples from Somerset in the middle , flanked by Christmas roses and trails of ivy . |
| 5 | He had been for many years an Examiner with the Joint Matriculation Board , and latterly Chief Examiner for the Cambridge Board . |
| 6 | Mr Strachan 's acquaintance with the Library did not begin with his appointment as Chairman , since he had been for many years , as a historian and biographer , a reader in the Library 's Reading Rooms . |
| 7 | His vocal chords abruptly haemorrhaged ; CBS TV dropped him , as did his agent MCA , and Columbia Records with whom he had been for ten years . |