Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [was/were] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several months into my secondary education , this working provided what was for me the greatest locospotting thrill of the decade . |
| 2 | I simply assumed his was for later on , like mine . ’ |
| 3 | Like the rest of the family , you assumed I was for sale . |
| 4 | They just stopped him from choking the life out of bobby Carter because he had said everybody was for the war : if we did n't show them Russians what was what , who would ? |
| 5 | He says it was for their funeral but now they 've got nothing . |
| 6 | When I painted it was for myself , I could afford the luxury of spending two years on a painting ; I did n't have to worry about whether anyone was interested in it or not or whether I would exhibit it in a commercial gallery or whether it would be sold . |
| 7 | They did n't feel for example they could go into the advice centre , they did n't feel it was for them . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | The first time they came it was for ‘ Bob-a-job ’ week , but now they just come . |
| 10 | The Cherry and Whites are used to winning against Nottingham … last time they played it was for league points in the first division … |
| 11 | It had a Birmingham postmark and was addressed to ‘ Robert Hilton ’ and she assumed it was for her son . |
| 12 | At a later interview he was asked for what the Nobel had been awarded ; Eliot replied that he assumed it was for " the entire corpus " and the reporter asked , " When did you publish that ? " |
| 13 | For about fifteen minutes he did nothing but sit there contentedly , sipping his coffee and watching their restless , flickering scene around him through half-open eyes : the tall , bearded man with a cigar and a fatuous grin who walked up and down at an unvarying even pace like a clockwork soldier , never looking at anybody ; the plump ageing layabout in a Gestapo officers leather coat and dark glasses holding court outside the door of the cafe , trading secrets and scandal with his men friends , assessing the passers-by as thought they were for sale , calling after women and making hour-glass gestures with his hairy gold-ringed hands ; a frail old man bent like an S , with a crazy harmless expression and a transistor radio pressed to his ear walking with the exaggerated urgency of those who have nowhere to go ; slim Africans with leatherwork belts and bangles laid out on a piece of cloth ; a Gypsy child sitting n the cold stone playing the same four note again and again on a cheap concertina ; two foreigners with guitars an a small crowd around them ; a beggar with his shirt pulled down over one shoulder to reveal the stump of an amputated arm ; a pudgy shapeless women with an open suitcase full of cigarette lighters and bootleg cassettes ; the two Nordic girls at the next table , basking half-naked in the weak March sun as though this might be the last time it appeared this year . |
| 14 | He guessed they were for the morals group , since neither he nor Mrs Frizzell ever really read a book , and he put them down again , still mystified . |
| 15 | I went to a local DIY store and picked out a can of own-brand paint which stated it was for exterior decoration . |
| 16 | There was no chimney attached to it ; so she guessed it was for paraffin oil . |
| 17 | The other recalls what was for a long time Britain 's worst air disaster . |
| 18 | ‘ You 'll recall that the cheque you paid us was for a chest which we made for your cousin . |
| 19 | The cap they showed us was for an elephant , a massive thing . |
| 20 | The report , by Jérôme Dourdin , noted in particular how tiring and discouraging it was for visitors to walk all the way out to the Pavillon de Flore to see the sculptures and then have to hike back again to visit the other collections in the Museum . |
| 21 | Except that is was for money , I know it was for money but er I do n't know the exact er Because I think I think in that year , we got what we called the Samuel award , that were three shillings a day , basic , you see ? |
| 22 | Whatever the problems for the CNAA and for the institutions , and however irritating it was for DES officers or some college principals , the CNAA was working methodically to ensure that complex questions of comparability of standards were resolved to the satisfaction of the various parts of the validating machinery . |
| 23 | Shapira 's explanation is that Zoila had reached what was for her a satisfactory level of interaction and was not motivated to progress . |
| 24 | ‘ Its distinctive feature is the outer wall facing what was for some time the running lines of the railway , though these tracks are now wholly within the works area , the main lines passing on the other side of the canal . |
| 25 | It was a little Mini van that he ran around in saying it was for the band but really he had it because he thought it was ‘ a good shagging mobile ’ with just enough space in the back for ‘ entertaining ’ . |
| 26 | Of course we thought we were for it . |
| 27 | ‘ It was only a joke but the school secretary , who had a heart condition , thought they were for real and nearly died , ’ says Betty Weller . |
| 28 | I did n't think you could get grants for your hobby ; I thought they were for businesses and things like that . |
| 29 | I thought they were for sore throats and things Gary ? |
| 30 | ‘ If Haines recommended the Jockey Club should be abolished we would have to consider it and if we felt it was for the benefit of racing we would do it , ’ Lord Hartington said . |