Example sentences of "[pron] was [noun sg] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Whatever it was you said to him has caused him to cancel the work I was doing for him . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ If he had any idea of what she was doing for us , MoD does n't want it spread around . |
| 4 | Provost John Cunningham admitted that Main had not possessed a commission as watchman and was indeed an extraordinary officer employed only when there was work for him to perform , but there seems little reason to doubt that Main 's removal was intended to serve the political interest of the Haldanes , for his removal was not an isolated case , and , moreover , when the Hamilton salt works resumed operations the excise supervisors did not in fact restore Main to his old post , but appointed an individual named Curinan to the vacancy . |
| 5 | Her car was a red MG with the hood down , parked closely ; there was room for her to get in , but not for him . |
| 6 | Well I should say yes they would , I should say there was trouble for them obviously when it was reported . |
| 7 | Work , sport and social activities ran easily side by side , There was time for them all — after I 'd absorbed father 's time-mentality . |
| 8 | There is a flat at the top of our house where our younger son and his wife had lived until Mark was a year old , so there was accommodation for them : they need n't be homeless even if they were penniless ! |
| 9 | Every house had one or two people who were over forty-five and it was misery for them . |
| 10 | It was work for her now , dealing with the bitch and the male accomplice in Newington Butts . |
| 11 | It was nonsense for her to say no one had a motive for murdering her husband . |
| 12 | ‘ I think it was agony for her often , the balance between No 1 and No 2 . |
| 13 | It was time for me to disappear . |
| 14 | At the end of the season Chapman called me in and said it was time for me to decide one way or the other . |
| 15 | I could see that it was time for me to make the tea . |
| 16 | ‘ When it was time for me to fire the very pistol , I had to get up from the wireless operator 's seat and had to move my parachute — which was always as close to my feet as possible and instead of lifting it up by the canvas carrying handle , I lifted it up by the metal handle ( the rip cord ) and so had a bundle of silk to get out of the way . |
| 17 | We had several until I decided that it was time for me to sit on her lap . |
| 18 | Standing up , I assured her that I was n't drunk but tired and that I thought it was time for me to walk her home . |
| 19 | Once I grasped the centrality of symbolism to the religion and grasped its effect , it was time for me to leave . |
| 20 | Then it was time for me to attend the evening reception on Britania . |
| 21 | It was time for me to go . |
| 22 | I knew when I woke that it was time for me to return . |
| 23 | After six years it was time for me to move on to Debenham High School . |
| 24 | The half-hour eventually crawled round , then it was time for me to go and get ready . |
| 25 | ‘ I believed her when she assured me I would meet someone much more suitable when it was time for me to get married . ’ |
| 26 | eyes on before and when it was time for me to go to bed I would be encouraged not made |
| 27 | Yanto arranged to pick them up outside Sharpness Coop Sunday morning , after which Mary said it was time for her to go home . |
| 28 | Sarah refused to think about the inevitable separation from Corrie when it was time for her to be returned to the Foundling Hospital . |
| 29 | As she moved off with the other mounted followers , Artemis determined that if her father thought it was time for her to stop riding ponies and learn to hunt on a horse , then so be it . |
| 30 | Her friends were settled , politics infinitely depressing , she came to the decision to make some break ; it was time for her to go . |