Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have given my right arm to have achieved such an agreement when I was Minister for Aviation between 1984 and 1987 . |
| 2 | The early experience of ESAs that I had when I was Minister for Agriculture , Fisheries and Food showed the policy to be important , helpful and constructive . |
| 3 | I was secretary for seven year eh . |
| 4 | Twelve and thirteen and I was cook for four years there . |
| 5 | " Whatever it was you said to him has caused him to cancel the work I was doing for him . |
| 6 | From 1919 to 1948 she was secretary for social training there , and later published privately a booklet on its history . |
| 7 | She was minister for social action in the Pol Pot era and is regarded as one of the main theoreticians of the party . |
| 8 | While she was doing so , she was company for little Sandy , who was just six months old and still in his pram , the image of his daddy , Bruce Mackenzie . |
| 9 | Despite her love of exercise , her health had been poor since her early adulthood and she was bedridden for many years . |
| 10 | She was larger than life , she had seen the world , she was game for anything , she was jolly and vibrant , spoke her mind ; all in all , she was fun to be with . |
| 11 | She was agent for Sir Ian Wrigglesworth ( SDP ) in 1987 General Election . |
| 12 | Suddenly she was doing for silver-haired women of matronly stature what Joan Collins had done for the middle aged . |
| 13 | When I was in Moscow , my grandmother was with me and everything that I wanted she was doing for me and I was a little girl who had everything . |
| 14 | ‘ If he had any idea of what she was doing for us , MoD does n't want it spread around . |
| 15 | When the right job did turn up , it was relief for the frustrated star , but it also signalled the end of his marriage . |
| 16 | Every house had one or two people who were over forty-five and it was misery for them . |
| 17 | It was money for old rope . |
| 18 | Say it was night for instance . |
| 19 | The music they played gradually grew familiar to Alice ; it was music for the violin , the famous Violin Concerto , and it sounded very strange on the flute and guitar , so strange that it took her a moment or two to recognize it . |
| 20 | It was sex for its own sake , pure and ungarnished by civilised preliminaries such as visits to the cinema or candlelit dinners . |
| 21 | It was sex for its own sake , pure and ungarnished by visits to the cinema or candlelit dinners |
| 22 | It was work for her now , dealing with the bitch and the male accomplice in Newington Butts . |
| 23 | It was nonsense for her to say no one had a motive for murdering her husband . |
| 24 | But the committee was hopelessly divided on what it meant by Christian hope — whether it was hope for peace and perfection in this world , or hope for a future life , or hope only of forgiveness at the last . |
| 25 | Henry II , moreover , had performed homage while King and although it was homage for his continental possessions and not for his kingdom , this was a step to which none of his predecessors as Kings of England had ever steeled themselves . |
| 26 | As for me it was preparation for Morning Service at 10.30 am . |
| 27 | However , on one 's first appearance in the office in the morning it was etiquette for all , even key holders , to enter through the front door and use the front staircase . |
| 28 | ‘ I think it was agony for her often , the balance between No 1 and No 2 . |
| 29 | Nevertheless the Spanish translation of Rousseau 's Social Contract could appeal to a ‘ son of Padilla ’ ; it was enthusiasm for the parliamentary institutions of medieval Spain which allowed the Cortes of Cadiz to present a constitution , founded on the constitutions of Revolutionary France , as the culmination of the ‘ true ’ constitutional development of Spain . |
| 30 | ‘ But during the Gaullist years , people said it was propaganda for De Gaulle , ’ he sighs , weary of denying either political message or moralising . |