Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It hit me just how right Anne had been when she said that teaching was the only job I knew — and how horribly ill-equipped I was for anything else . |
| 2 | Why , you were as hot for me as I was for you ! ’ |
| 3 | On the subject of my aunts , I must share with you something which still makes me smile when I think back on those days of yore , which were for us children — halcyon days . |
| 4 | The young men had been playing football against a team from the small local college at Adrar , the town which was for me the end of tarmac and the beginning of the desert ; for these city boys , it was the last outpost . |
| 5 | Anaud had in some ways a curiously desexualized view of the body and spoke of a ‘ body without organs ’ , which was for him a body deprived mainly of functions of reproduction and defecation , that was mainly a locus of feeling and sensation . |
| 6 | Innocent was consecrated pope on the feast of St Peter 's Chair or Throne ( 22 February ) , which was for him deeply symbolic . |
| 7 | Whatever the uncertainties of the precise dates , events and social connections in Rolle 's life it is clear from external and internal evidence that he felt increasingly compelled towards a solitary life because it facilitated contemplative inner life which was for him the reality to be cultivated above all other . |
| 8 | All 72 of the privatised National Bus Company subsidiaries left the best scheme , which was for them the equivalent of TOPS and broke the link between pension rights and the rise in the cost of living . |
| 9 | All 72 of the privatised National Bus Company subsidiaries left the best scheme , which was for them the equivalent of TOPS and broke the link between pension rights and the rise in the cost of living . |
| 10 | Till May came and the day came When she wore 'em down to Shoreham , But nobody was for 'em So she wore 'em nevermore … |
| 11 | And suddenly she knew how much she longed to see them , to introduce him to them , and to tell them how sorry she was for her wild behaviour over Terry , and for her conceited folly over Havvie . |
| 12 | She felt the tight leather skirt being wriggled upwards to bare her scorching behind , and when his cool fingers touched her hot flesh she realised just how hot she was for him . |
| 13 | How ready she was for him to fuck her . |
| 14 | She was n't at all good at concealing how worried she was for his safety . |
| 15 | Of course we thought we were for it . |
| 16 | I mean , he had no idea about what possibilities there were for me and he just looked at it as a very , very dodgy profession to want to go into . |
| 17 | Beyond and above the jolt to the national memory , there was for me a special exhumation of the past . |
| 18 | Surrounded as I was by supremely negative images of homosexuality such as ‘ the man in the dirty mac living out a lonely old age in a filthy garret ’ , I still felt that there was for me a clear choice between expressing or repressing my homosexual desire . |
| 19 | We do not know what legal or moral basis there was for it . |
| 20 | She was , in any case , not sure how they were , or how they were for her . |
| 21 | Cigarettes were placed on the table in front of you which meant that they were for everybody . |
| 22 | They were for our house but not hers . |
| 23 | ‘ Did she say they were for you ? ’ |
| 24 | Now , all these things are not just for this woman , they were for you , and they 're for me . |
| 25 | And I think I believed , or tried to believe , him when he repeatedly told me that the restrictions he placed upon me were for my own good . |
| 26 | No , it was for himself to protect his dallta , as usual . |
| 27 | ‘ I asked if it was for himself or his mother . |
| 28 | ‘ It was for nothing , Daddy . ’ |
| 29 | It was for nothing but to counter the parallel sky , and I found it mystical in its impracticality . |
| 30 | Erm I so it was for one So seven kilometres is equal to fifty millimetres . |