Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] be for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several months into my secondary education , this working provided what was for me the greatest locospotting thrill of the decade . |
| 2 | I simply assumed his was for later on , like mine . ’ |
| 3 | Like the rest of the family , you assumed I was for sale . |
| 4 | When I painted it was for myself , I could afford the luxury of spending two years on a painting ; I did n't have to worry about whether anyone was interested in it or not or whether I would exhibit it in a commercial gallery or whether it would be sold . |
| 5 | They 're gunned up and fired up and told it 's for real . |
| 6 | The first time they came it was for ‘ Bob-a-job ’ week , but now they just come . |
| 7 | The Cherry and Whites are used to winning against Nottingham … last time they played it was for league points in the first division … |
| 8 | It had a Birmingham postmark and was addressed to ‘ Robert Hilton ’ and she assumed it was for her son . |
| 9 | At a later interview he was asked for what the Nobel had been awarded ; Eliot replied that he assumed it was for " the entire corpus " and the reporter asked , " When did you publish that ? " |
| 10 | He guessed they were for the morals group , since neither he nor Mrs Frizzell ever really read a book , and he put them down again , still mystified . |
| 11 | I went to a local DIY store and picked out a can of own-brand paint which stated it was for exterior decoration . |
| 12 | There was no chimney attached to it ; so she guessed it was for paraffin oil . |
| 13 | ‘ You 'll recall that the cheque you paid us was for a chest which we made for your cousin . |
| 14 | The cap they showed us was for an elephant , a massive thing . |
| 15 | Of course we thought we were for it . |
| 16 | ‘ It was only a joke but the school secretary , who had a heart condition , thought they were for real and nearly died , ’ says Betty Weller . |
| 17 | I did n't think you could get grants for your hobby ; I thought they were for businesses and things like that . |
| 18 | I thought they were for sore throats and things Gary ? |
| 19 | ‘ If Haines recommended the Jockey Club should be abolished we would have to consider it and if we felt it was for the benefit of racing we would do it , ’ Lord Hartington said . |
| 20 | Despite his brotherly teasing and criticisms , he was devoted to her and would not be speaking in this fashion unless he felt it was for the best . |
| 21 | Charlotte felt it was for Ursula to say , but all Ursula could think about was her living daughter , not her dead husband . |
| 22 | Then not long after , we were both walking under some scaffolding — she was already under it and out of view — when a workman whistled , so I knew it was for me , not her . |
| 23 | Everything was wonderful , he said , and she knew it was for him . |
| 24 | When Mellor joined colleagues for yesterday 's Cabinet meeting , he knew it was for the last time . |
| 25 | Their lawyer , Patricia Hambrecht , says : ‘ We witnessed a dramatic drop in our appraisal business for donations to institutions , and even though we realised it was not in our narrow self-interest , we knew it was for the good of the overall arts community ’ . |
| 26 | As soon as I saw it , I knew it was for you . ’ |
| 27 | I knew it was for me to approach the Colonel again , rather than vice versa . |
| 28 | But I just said that it was for the Welsh Office cos I thought if er they knew it was for a Authority you know ? |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't know whether this was a fund-raising ploy or whether this was for real , ’ O'Boyle said , ‘ but I thought it was for real at the time . ’ |
| 30 | I thought it was for purely recreational use |