Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Auxilliary nurses do not go on any courses so there were none for him to take . |
| 2 | His second came at the ticket booth , where there was no-one for him to show his first-class ticket to . |
| 3 | The result was that on the Saturday morning , I told my mother there was nothing for me in England and I was going back to Germany to try and get my old job back . |
| 4 | There was nothing for me to do , I was too young to get a work permit , and mum was determined we were n't going to start breaking the law the minute we 'd got there , so she called Auntie Muriel and Auntie Muriel said why not . |
| 5 | There was nothing for me going on down there , so I come to Nottingham to give it a try . |
| 6 | There was nothing for me to hold on to prevent myself from getting closer and closer to the pool . |
| 7 | The bottom line was that there was nothing for them to do and those thoroughbred young men were too bright and too vigorous to put up with endless bull . |
| 8 | There was nothing for him but a painful irony in their raucous clamour . |
| 9 | Incidentally , there was nothing for him from Paris this month . |
| 10 | It was nothing for him to take the ball off them and stick the knife in it to burst it . ’ |
| 11 | There was nothing for him to do now until Kynaston had finished . |
| 12 | There was nothing for him to say . |
| 13 | He pulled the door to behind him — he was reasonably certain there was nothing for him to see in the engine-room anyway — and stooped to examine the three dead men . |
| 14 | There was nothing for him to do except settle down to some work . |
| 15 | There was nothing for him to do but play cards , which was allowed . |
| 16 | She 'd reassure him over and over that she was fine , she was safe , there was nothing for him to worry about , and Ashdown would then ring Joe and pass along anything new or helpful that he 'd been able to pick out of the conversation . |
| 17 | But there was nothing for him to see . |
| 18 | It would have meant nothing to that pervert to let her stay … he had wielded the knife , the cruel swine … telling her he regretted there was nothing for her when all the time he was still hiring people … examining her through that monocle as though he was God … |
| 19 | Immediately she 'd sensed that this was wrong , that there was nothing for her in this office , and that she 'd be at risk if she stayed around a moment longer than was necessary . |
| 20 | There was nothing for her here ; and if this was admitted between them it must swiftly prove an admission with only one exit . |
| 21 | It seemed there was nothing for her after all , no warm fire , no nursery comfort , no being needed . |
| 22 | There was nothing for her , now , nothing apart from Harry . |
| 23 | There was nothing for it : I would have to run away . |
| 24 | There was nothing for it |
| 25 | There was nothing for it . |
| 26 | There was nothing for it , Mungo thought , but to follow Vic as often as possible , in the hope that he would lead the way to a solution . |
| 27 | For example , on high policy common opinion said that there was nothing for it but to stay in the ERM . |
| 28 | Paddy quickly took command , but with most of their gear missing and two men so badly injured that they had to be left behind , there was nothing for it but to try to make the rendezvous with the LRDG . |
| 29 | There was nothing for it but to attempt a take-off and try to make for Tobruk . |
| 30 | There was nothing for it but to try to make their way on foot out of the town and walk back to the rendezvous with Robin Gurdon . |