Example sentences of "[vb past] it be for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They 're gunned up and fired up and told it 's for real . |
| 3 | The first time they came it was for ‘ Bob-a-job ’ week , but now they just come . |
| 4 | The Cherry and Whites are used to winning against Nottingham … last time they played it was for league points in the first division … |
| 5 | It had a Birmingham postmark and was addressed to ‘ Robert Hilton ’ and she assumed it was for her son . |
| 6 | 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 ? " |
| 7 | I went to a local DIY store and picked out a can of own-brand paint which stated it was for exterior decoration . |
| 8 | There was no chimney attached to it ; so she guessed it was for paraffin oil . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Charlotte felt it was for Ursula to say , but all Ursula could think about was her living daughter , not her dead husband . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Everything was wonderful , he said , and she knew it was for him . |
| 14 | When Mellor joined colleagues for yesterday 's Cabinet meeting , he knew it was for the last time . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | As soon as I saw it , I knew it was for you . ’ |
| 17 | I knew it was for me to approach the Colonel again , rather than vice versa . |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 20 | I thought it was for purely recreational use |
| 21 | They thought it was for real , and panicked . |
| 22 | He thought it was for sex . |
| 23 | But when he got the job in the stocking factory he seriously thought it was for life . |
| 24 | I thought it was for the best . |
| 25 | Perhaps they thought it was for unwanted babies ; she did start to explain about the new home for blind children , but never had to finish . |
| 26 | I thought it was for more than we are after selling him for . |
| 27 | I thought it was for m , Tuesday ! |
| 28 | I realised it was for John and Angela . ’ |
| 29 | I said it 's for when you 've got a blunt dart and you sharpen it . |
| 30 | destroyed all mine and put it all in the , I mean lipsticks ten quid a time or whatever , seven quid a time , so I went through and Mary had a she got this moisture , oh I thought what does this mean , she said it 's for removing lines , I thought right we 'll have a sample this |