Example sentences of "[pron] was for [indef pn] " 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 | ‘ It was for nothing , Daddy . ’ |
| 3 | It was for nothing but to counter the parallel sky , and I found it mystical in its impracticality . |
| 4 | Erm I so it was for one So seven kilometres is equal to fifty millimetres . |
| 5 | It was for something that happened about five or six years ago . |
| 6 | He knew how easy it was for someone to conceal himself amongst the clutter of hanging garments , unseen and unsuspected , while even grown-ups went about their business in ignorance of his presence . |
| 7 | He appreciated how difficult it was for me ‘ to give way ’ , what a wrench it was for someone who always operated on his own to cooperate with an act he neither understood nor , at that time , actively sought . |
| 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 |