Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 However , the London season was almost upon them and she was more cheerful than she 'd been for weeks .
14 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 !
15 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 .
16 The last thing she needed was for the plane to go without her .
17 She left a little while later , happier than she had been for a long time .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 Where was that bungalow that you said was for sale then ?
21 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 .
22 All she wanted was for him to leave and take his tantalising , lying promises away with him .
23 The last thing she wanted was for the local press to find out that she had a personal interest in finding Angy 's killer .
24 Frankly , the last thing she wanted was for him to come too close .
25 In that instant all she wanted was for him to take her in his arms again ; to know the sweet pressure of his mouth on hers and to feel once more the way her body had come alive beneath his hands .
26 The last thing she wanted was for him to know just how badly his words had affected her .
27 Deal or no mysterious deal , now that it had been established that he had not tracked her down all she wanted was for him to go .
28 Now all she wanted was for him to go , so she could sit down and think it over .
29 Those whom they encountered were for the most part leading precarious lives ; they lacked the leisure , the mental energy , even the vocabulary , for speculation about the great issues of heaven and hell , death and judgement .
30 All the phone calls they received were for him , and Gina never had any mail .
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