Example sentences of "[verb] was for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The first day 's threshing I done was for a man by the name of Rogers , Harry Rogers . |
| 2 | Everything he had ever done was for the woman he could not forget . |
| 3 | What was needed was for the Government to spend much more money , in a more caring fashion . |
| 4 | Perhaps , as Ho said later , all that was needed was for the French to pronounce one word : independence ; but on both sides this was the most fraught and emotional issue . |
| 5 | All it needed was for the envelope to be stuck down . |
| 6 | The last thing she needed was for the plane to go without her . |
| 7 | Little damage had been done , all it needed was for the cargo to be reassembled , but , while several tourists were rushing energetically around attempting to do this , the drivers of the carts had taken time off to chat . |
| 8 | For example , all the competitors had to blow into what resembled a gas meter and the capacity of the lung was recorded , I failed to see the point of this exercise , and that , with other medical experiements , only fired my resolve to upset the doctors ' wager , which I believe was for a box of cigars . |
| 9 | But the last thing I did was for a guitar player in Nashville , Chip Young , who put together an album — which incidentally is getting released pretty soon — and he has ten tracks with ten different guests : local session players , myself , Chet 's on one , Grady Martin , Jerry Reed , Jerry Kennedy , Wayne Moss and various other guys , but I think guitar players out there will like it . ’ |
| 10 | It was a tradition that avoided any real contemplation of the root causes of German unease ; their preference for ‘ action ’ , rested secure in the knowledge that everything they did was for the good of the nation , sanctioned by law and sanctioned by the German people . |
| 11 | When I was a bit older , I thought he was probably a thief and that the bag he carried was for the loot . ’ |
| 12 | In fact , although the manual supplied with the machine I purchased was for a KH710 , the machine turned out to be a KH585 , possibly an earlier model . |
| 13 | All that remained was for the Lord Chancellor by statutory instrument to appoint a day for s9 to come into effect . |
| 14 | At this stage Hitler 's plans were still fluid , but the last thing he wanted was for the useful Danzig problem to be solved . |
| 15 | The last thing they wanted was for the Americans to know they were about to learn their secrets . |
| 16 | The last thing she wanted was for the local press to find out that she had a personal interest in finding Angy 's killer . |
| 17 | Why they found them striking was for the stylistician to explain . |