Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [be] for " in BNC.

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1 " I feel worn out , much more than I would if I 'd been for miles on the moor .
2 The only payment I received was for travelling expenses from COHSE .
3 ‘ All the same , ’ she said , ‘ all I meant was for her to break a leg . ’
4 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 . ’
5 But at the time I felt rejected and useless , because I was n't needed in the way I had been for so long. ,
6 Such an attitude required fresh springs of energy , and the effect — I was delighted to sense it as I woke each day — was to make me more bouncy and mettlesome than I had been for weeks .
7 First good watch I had was for my twenty first , I 've still got , it still goes
8 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 .
9 The things I wrote were for you .
10 The last thing I wanted was for some motorist to hit one of my owls just when it was establishing itself .
11 And you kept trying all those complicated ways of pleasing me , but all I wanted was for you just to want me . ’
12 Now all I wanted was for James to ask me out and I would 've when out with him you know .
13 Sentence of death was passed on 8 convicts at the Old Bailey , 4 of whom were executed on 15 Feb. : ‘ One of those who suffered was for robbing a farmer 's boy of sixpence . ’
14 However , the London season was almost upon them and she was more cheerful than she 'd been for weeks .
15 Luke Calder was used to getting what he wanted from life , and the last thing she needed was for him to turn his sights on to her , even though it might only be to put her back in her place !
16 Until she 'd made up her mind one way or the other , the last thing she needed was for rumours of an imminent retirement from music to start circulating .
17 The last thing she needed was for the plane to go without her .
18 She left a little while later , happier than she had been for a long time .
19 The battered red car arrived at 7pm , Maria Yackle was dressed as she had been for her previous visit , but because it was rather cold , wore a jacket made of synthetic fur as well .
20 Agnes , tanned , huge , all beads and bright caftan , determined to give birth in the lotus position ( in which she claimed the child had been conceived ) while going ‘ Om ’ , refused to answer any of my father 's questions about where she had been for the three years and who she had been with .
21 These maxims , many of them reflecting nothing more than common sense , and taken from the recorded experience of the past , were to be found mainly in two works : the Facta et dicta memorabilia of Valerius Maximus , written in the first century AD , and the Stratagemata of Frontinus , composed in the same century by a man who had been for a short while Roman governor of Britain .
22 It was very difficult to remember who had been for what at which particular period .
23 At this moment the King , who had been for some time busily writing in his notebook , called out , ‘ Silence ! ’ and read out from his book , ‘ Rule Forty-Two .
24 Harrowby was an eminent politician , who had been for many years MP for Liverpool ; his scientific interests were in geography and statistics .
25 He was a huge man in his early thirties who had been for a time a heavyweight boxer .
26 Where was that bungalow that you said was for sale then ?
27 The last thing she wanted was for Tom to take her under his wing , to regard her in some sense as his find and his property , but that was what was happening .
28 All she wanted was for him to leave and take his tantalising , lying promises away with him .
29 The last thing she wanted was for the local press to find out that she had a personal interest in finding Angy 's killer .
30 Frankly , the last thing she wanted was for him to come too close .
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