Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] were for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the absence of any significant movement on the Western Front people were bound to start asking what their sacrifices were for , and whether , if military victory was unattainable , some other way of stopping the slaughter should be found . |
| 2 | It turned out the travel agent had told them their tickets were for tourist class where they would be safe . |
| 3 | All her regrets were for herself , not him . |
| 4 | The purpose of the study is to identify how the policy was implemented , and what its consequences were for the curriculum , pupils ' experience of school science and teachers ' professional situation . |
| 5 | It also coincided with the rise and consolidation of the labour movement in Britain ; and that is a story from which women were for many years absent or in which they featured very much as a minority . |
| 6 | The Arup scheme held centre stage , but the public , whose views were for once solicited , showed a very definite preference for the Simpson plan . |
| 7 | ‘ It is just , ’ said Hope , looking at Mrs Crump as if she were a particularly testing landscape — perhaps a copse whose colours were for ever changing under sun and scudding clouds — ‘ it is just , ’ he said , ‘ and I am sure , certain , that someone must have told you this — ‘ |
| 8 | Despite the Party programme and frequent reiteration of the line , the record in practice seemed appalling — ranging from the Russian colonists , operating under the banners of Soviet power and universal freedom ; the arbitrary and cruel behaviour of raw troops operating in alien lands and in danger , far from the watching eyes of Moscow ; the role of former Tsarist officers whose instincts were for the patriotic defence of all the territories of the former empire , without concession to local nationalism ; to the contempt of the Bolshevik ultra-Left for all forms of nationalism . |
| 9 | ‘ So it occurred to me that you , as my great-uncle 's ghillie , might even have known what his plans were for his ‘ specials ’ . |
| 10 | In reminding himself that his responsibilities were for the President , he recalled the way that Mariana had looked at the old man that first day when he had met them out on the dock , the President casting for bonefish . |
| 11 | His responsibilities were for a single grey pony bound for a Kuwaiti Sheikh . |
| 12 | Was n't that what sisters were for ? |
| 13 | That 's what holidays were for — looking at your toes , wandering on the beach , hours of sitting and staring , standing and staring , lying as long as you could bear in the sun with eyes closed . |
| 14 | I said , oh perhaps they could come up to us you know , I did n't know quite at the moment what our plans were for over the weekend . |
| 15 | Could you explain for the record what your reasons were for arriving at that conclusion ? |
| 16 | I thought your efforts were for me . ’ |
| 17 | But you remember how intense your feelings were for someone who was your whole life , and you 're afraid that your love for him is n't so much dead as lying doggo , ready to rise up and damage everything you hold dear . |