Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] was for " in BNC.
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| 1 | My dad always said it was for when I got married . |
| 2 | He wrote a few letters on my behalf and I just did n't think he was for me because of what I saw at the time . |
| 3 | They did n't feel for example they could go into the advice centre , they did n't feel it was for them . |
| 4 | I simply assumed his was for later on , like mine . ’ |
| 5 | The police did n't say it was for public speaking . |
| 6 | Whatever the problems for the CNAA and for the institutions , and however irritating it was for DES officers or some college principals , the CNAA was working methodically to ensure that complex questions of comparability of standards were resolved to the satisfaction of the various parts of the validating machinery . |
| 7 | His idea of the " popular play " is important , since his devotion to the music hall and his belief that the poet can only be socially useful in the theatre spurred him on to achieve what was for him the unachievable : the plays bear all the marks of their deliberate and laborious composition . |
| 8 | But when he got the job in the stocking factory he seriously thought it was for life . |