Example sentences of "[adv] it was for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do you have any idea how much it was for ? ’ |
| 2 | Perhaps it was for the same reason that Mrs Parvis , so Gloria claimed , put crushed up egg-shells into powdered egg so that the lodgers would think they were eating something which they were n't . |
| 3 | I should do something now , because perhaps it was for want of normal company that Eleanor Thorne lay until her mind turned the corner into madness and final decay , I should go out , I should not allow myself to brood , to carry out my sister 's peculiar whims and defer to the judgments she passes upon me . |
| 4 | My brother Frankie and sister Liza were a little older than I was , so perhaps it was for this reason that I seemed to end up doing most of the chores . |
| 5 | Perhaps it was for this reason that I hated them as much as I resented menstruation itself . |
| 6 | Perhaps it was for the best . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps it was for days . |
| 8 | So it was for the sake of her playing that she defected ? |
| 9 | And so it was for Wirral , for , as we shall see in Chapter 2 , the Index was collecting ‘ epidemic ’ data but its guardians did not recognise or communicate the fact . |
| 10 | Erm I so it was for one So seven kilometres is equal to fifty millimetres . |
| 11 | So it was for her . |
| 12 | And so it was for Former Labour Leader Michael Foot and front bench spokesmen , Chris Smith and Donald Dewar as they slugged it out with John Patten and Peter Lilley . |
| 13 | And so it was for Lt Clyde Sparky Cosper , based at Thurleigh in Befordshire , but who 's selfless bravery saved a Chilterns Town from total disaster in 1943 . |
| 14 | The unifying factor was Ho Chi Minh , acting as agent of the Comintern , and while it would not manage to suppress its nationalist tendencies indefinitely it was for the moment clearly identified with the Vietnamese working class . |
| 15 | Partly it was for lack of anything else to be curious about , the usual island obsession with trivialities ; partly it was that one cryptic phrase from Mitford and the discovery about Leverrier ; partly , perhaps mostly , a peculiar feeling that I had a sort of right to visit . |
| 16 | Right , and the background to that of course is , for those of you who may not know , Bullett was I suppose a more junior person in the State Department , when he went to Europe with Woodrow Wilson in nineteen eighteen , and nineteen whenever it was for a peace conference , and Bullett was the only one of the American delegation who resigned and confronted Wilson and said , look , you 've gone back on the fourteen points , you 're not doing what you said you would do . |
| 17 | Quite clearly it was for me to initiate action to ensure that all aircraft of that type were checked for similar fractures at the earliest possible moment , but the responsibility for ordering such an inspection lies with the airworthiness authorities of the States in which the aircraft were registered and not with the accident investigation authorities . |
| 18 | She told herself she wanted to have her photograph taken so that she could send it to Aunt Sarah , but really it was for herself . |
| 19 | But I suppose really it was for supplies that came by ship to be carried to some of the houses on the hill , the Ranger 's House , or the Observatory . ’ |
| 20 | Well it was for , well me dad was a l me dad was a liberal . |
| 21 | Well it was for the next two years . |
| 22 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that his earlier answer emphasised once again how essential and right it was for the Government to stand up against allowing homosexuality in the armed forces ? |
| 23 | This is how it was for Regina who from 1942 , when she was eighteen , suffered numerous breakdowns . |
| 24 | She did not feel angry with him : she could imagine how it was for him : woman after woman after woman , all the same , all different , weeping on occasion for fear , boredom , pain , frustration , humiliation . |
| 25 | She saw how it was for the others : that they were suffering while we , fortunate as we were , had enough . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , Mama , is this how it was for you ? ’ she murmured aloud to the empty room . |
| 27 | ‘ You read Mark 's letter , felt for him , saw his side , which is entirely understandable , but did you give Luke a chance to explain , tell you how it was for him ? ’ |
| 28 | I can only tell you how it was for me . |
| 29 | Maybe it was for that reason that the party leader singled Mr Prescott 's past year performance out for praise in an interview in The Sunday Correspondent yesterday , calling him , chummily , ‘ Johnny ’ . |
| 30 | Whatever lay ahead , maybe it was for the best . |