Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [was/were] [art] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er I , I was a messenger for a time for the er , we lived in Lane and I was a messenger for a time with the erm A R P headquarters in Drive , now when my uncle got married and he had two children and I 'd , they were issuing gas masks and I had to go down and fetch a gas mask for his daughter and they were great big ones that used to envelope the whole babies with a bellows on the side that the mothers used to have to pump when they were in them , thank goodness we never had to use them and erm |
| 2 | The demand for working class seaside visits in Lancashire predated the railways and they were a convenience for , rather than a cause of , its subsequent growth … |
| 3 | ‘ He beat me at New Marske and he was a target for me in this one . ’ |
| 4 | She was n't happy , she was suddenly plunged into all this pressure and it was a nightmare for her . |
| 5 | The prayer that occurred was in a small group and it was a prayer for power for the church . |
| 6 | And it was a fight for the f towards the end of the week it was a fight to sort of say , Well , Sha n't be able to move it , use it until t the man comes . |
| 7 | This volume does indeed contain many of Boulestin 's best recipes , but not one single one of the delicious menus in the composition of which he excelled ; and it was a mistake for the editors to suppose that they understood French syntax better than their author . |
| 8 | I met George only when I came here , and it was a pleasure for me to meet such a good and conscientious man of the people . |
| 9 | They expect somebody else to be responsible ’ and it was a cause for great sorrow that ‘ Gone are the days of Queen Victoria . ’ |
| 10 | Then , as now , fears of national decline and cultural adulteration were much in evidence , and it was a cause for great concern that the nation 's youth were slipping away from the standards of their forebears . |
| 11 | They did , they were married in deep snow and it was a job for people to travel about . |
| 12 | Her worst was when she got in the way ; backstage timing sometimes had to be precise , and it was no place for someone who was still taking in the sights . |
| 13 | Yet for many years most Europeans did not know the system existed and it was no substitute for full EMU . |
| 14 | This was used in 1955 to enforce the ‘ Fourteen-Days rule ’ , which the BBC wanted to abandon , about broadcasting matters due for debate in Par-liament ; and it was the authority for the general ban on BBC ‘ editorializing ’ and on party political broadcasts outside the annual series agreed with the BBC . |
| 15 | ‘ And it was an excuse for an evening out . ’ |
| 16 | Not wishing to be a pansy , I stepped up my pace too , but I was no match for the male legs I was pursuing since both of my spindly little limbs could fit into the right leg of his breeches . |
| 17 | That 's right , but you were a councillor for instance Dave ? |
| 18 | Exercises in a room were all very well , but they were no substitute for running every day . |
| 19 | Second-to-bottom Westhoughton were better than their position suggests , but they were no match for a hungry outfit , who sealed the win thanks to further strikes by Graham Dodd and a Mark Wilson penalty . |
| 20 | He looked upon himself as absolutely bound to obey the papal decree ; but he was no crusader for the principle which it enshrined . |
| 21 | Mr Iqbal , 37 , was a black belt judo expert but he was no match for Vernage 's knife . |
| 22 | Oh , he was charming and debonair — but he was no match for Damian Flint . |
| 23 | But he was a man for the proprieties . |
| 24 | Salisbury did not share half the views held by those who accepted his lead , but he was a focus for the increasing Unionist discontent , a respectable public figure acting from the highest motives ; by 1921 he had made the diehard opposition a formidable force . |
| 25 | I do n't think Lou remembers how hard we worked , but it was every weekend for 18 months , going over and over these songs until we had all these dismembered arrangements we became famous for . |
| 26 | I doubted that , but it was no time for me to talk out of turn . |
| 27 | I cried — a bit of an exaggeration , but it was no moment for exactitudes , ‘ And now I 've got only one kidney . |
| 28 | A frank talk was a help , but it was no substitute for knowing what it was like to have to milk cows at the crack of dawn every morning or mend fences , or battle with the elements , and so he began a series of annual stays on Duchy farms . |
| 29 | There was a consensus of sorts among businessmen and trade unionists , but it was a consensus for protection of the home market and statutory cartels to control output and prices . |
| 30 | ‘ The drama lasted no more than l0 minutes but it was a nightmare for the poor mother . ’ |