Example sentences of "[vb past] be for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the phone calls they received were for him , and Gina never had any mail . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | Their private parts were firmly jammed in the wringer and all it needed was for somebody to the rescue . |
| 4 | That dalmatica that Tony sent is for you to wear , it 's not a pudding cloth for making spotted dick in . |
| 5 | ‘ All the same , ’ she said , ‘ all I meant was for her to break a leg . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Everything they did was for their business . |
| 7 | Anythin' I ever did was for me family . |
| 8 | If possible , life was harder even for these ragged redskins than it had been for their forefathers after the war with Rope Thrower , when their livelihood had been deliberately burned away from them . |
| 9 | The tears had been for himself , for Arabella and for a child who would never be born . |
| 10 | All her brave effort had been for nothing . |
| 11 | Carrie knew how hard it had been for her father , who had spent almost thirty-seven years as a horsekeeper for Galloway , to look for other employment . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The NVA representative who wrote to tell her of the decision explained that although he must have ‘ seemed unsympathetic in the past ’ , it had been for her own good . |
| 14 | It was very difficult to remember who had been for what at which particular period . |
| 15 | The England that Pound mourns the loss of is , as it had been for him from the first , an integral province of western Europe , sharing a common culture with France and always reaching out , through France , to the shores of the Mediterranean . |
| 16 | He thought back to how it had been for him last winter . |
| 17 | I 'm sure it was , Patrick grinned as he walked down the corridor and climbed the half-dozen steps from the servants ' quarters up to the hall ; he had seen the look on the butler 's face , and knew how uncomfortable it had been for him . |
| 18 | Blanche thought she detected a flicker of self-satisfaction , as though she had confirmed what had been for him until then just a suspicion . |
| 19 | He had seen how entirely wrong it had been for him to have assumed that Beatrice Throgmorton would look twice at him . |
| 20 | He paused and gave her an intense look that revealed a little of how it had been for him . |
| 21 | At the same time , some women in the older generation believed that they were a less significant source of advice and support for their daughters than their own mothers had been for them , and all were concerned to ensure that their support did not amount to ‘ interference ’ ( Blaxter and Paterson , 1982 , especially pp. 174–9 ) . |
| 22 | Convenience , that 's what it had been for her — little more . |
| 23 | The plan had been for his son ( Frederick William ) Robin ( born 1936 ) , who succeeded as third earl and was himself the author of an excellent life of William Wilberforce [ q.v. ] , to complete it . |
| 24 | The things I wrote were for you . |
| 25 | First good watch I had was for my twenty first , I 've still got , it still goes |
| 26 | Every female role he made was for his wife , even though she was well past her prime ; Semenyaka 's youth was wasted stepping into others ' shoes . |
| 27 | This father insisted that all they wanted was for their children to receive a schooling based on English traditions and values . |
| 28 | I finally said the only thing I damn well wanted was for them to leave so I could get to the hospital . |
| 29 | All she wanted was for him to leave and take his tantalising , lying promises away with him . |
| 30 | All he wanted was for him to put out the cigarette ; he knew he would just go on suffering the strangled air . |