Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb past] [be] for " in BNC.

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1 The only payment I received was for travelling expenses from COHSE .
2 First good watch I had was for my twenty first , I 've still got , it still goes
3 In fact , although the manual supplied with the machine I purchased was for a KH710 , the machine turned out to be a KH585 , possibly an earlier model .
4 The things I wrote were for you .
5 There is no doubt that many of its customers have used loans in cases where they would previously have use ( more costly ) HP a 1977 survey showed that 59 per cent of the loans it made were for motor vehicle purchase .
6 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 .
7 The first play they mounted was for Alan and his family — to celebrate the completion of the pageant .
8 All the phone calls they received were for him , and Gina never had any mail .
9 But the last thing I did was for a guitar player in Nashville , Chip Young , who put together an album — which incidentally is getting released pretty soon — and he has ten tracks with ten different guests : local session players , myself , Chet 's on one , Grady Martin , Jerry Reed , Jerry Kennedy , Wayne Moss and various other guys , but I think guitar players out there will like it . ’
10 The last thing I wanted was for some motorist to hit one of my owls just when it was establishing itself .
11 The last thing she wanted was for Tom to take her under his wing , to regard her in some sense as his find and his property , but that was what was happening .
12 The last thing she wanted was for the local press to find out that she had a personal interest in finding Angy 's killer .
13 Frankly , the last thing she wanted was for him to come too close .
14 The last thing she wanted was for him to know just how badly his words had affected her .
15 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 !
16 Until she 'd made up her mind one way or the other , the last thing she needed was for rumours of an imminent retirement from music to start circulating .
17 The last thing she needed was for the plane to go without her .
18 The last thing they wanted was for the Americans to know they were about to learn their secrets .
19 At this stage Hitler 's plans were still fluid , but the last thing he wanted was for the useful Danzig problem to be solved .
20 He had no idea what an effort it had been for Topaz to keep up the easy flow of chatter .
21 But at the time I felt rejected and useless , because I was n't needed in the way I had been for so long. ,
22 That 's the way it had been for longer than she could remember .
23 In his pronouncements , science was no longer subordinate to theology in the way it had been for Roger Bacon , Thomas Aquinas , or Nicole Oresme .
24 When I was a bit older , I thought he was probably a thief and that the bag he carried was for the loot . ’
25 Last time it had been for a length of dress material .
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