Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] was for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had taken a week to obtain , and had Hapsburg officialdom realized that it was for him rather than Aranyos it would have been unlikely to arrive before the end of the war . |
| 2 | Not only would I have refrained from interfering with Thorpe J. 's decision on the footing that he had properly directed himself and that it was for him to decide , but because , even on the facts as they then were , I consider that his decision was plainly right . |
| 3 | But Caspar , belatedly gallant , said that it was for him to lead the way . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't think Simone would have mentioned it if she had n't felt that it was for your own good , ’ he murmured . |
| 5 | ‘ I thought you were going to tell me at least that it was for my own good . |
| 6 | Perhaps just because she was Bob 's fiancée — but Tessa felt that it was for herself as well . |
| 7 | As far as the RAF was concerned , they had this nice little lull when losses fell substantially , so it was for us a calm period in the storm . |
| 8 | I wonder what it 'd be like if the phone suddenly rung and it was for me . |
| 9 | If he could see the sense behind Darwin 's arguments , it is unlikely that his subscribers would ; and it was for their tastes that he catered . |
| 10 | Discipline was rigid and we respected it , but resented it too , because of a particular juvenile arrogance that must have been founded on the knowledge that the world was changing a lot more than they realised , and it was for us that it was changing . |
| 11 | And it was for my benefit — to show what he was about to do to me . |
| 12 | ‘ I asked if it was for himself or his mother . |
| 13 | ‘ … the girls were very excited about it , because it was for them and there was an opportunity to use the equipment ’ |
| 14 | Why , you were as hot for me as I was for you ! ’ |
| 15 | Difficult though it was for her , however , are we entitled to assume that her French upbringing was bound to give her an adverse picture of her Scottish kingdom , and that her view was justified ? |
| 16 | There is much in the book that will be as new an exciting for most readers , as it was for me . |
| 17 | When your income is not much above five or six pounds a week , as it was for me in the seventies , even a tin of dog food is out of the question . |
| 18 | " It was as hard for me to keep quiet as it was for them , " Brown Owl , Mrs Sheila Scott , told the Southampton and District WWF Group Chairman , Geoffrey Cockrell , when he went along to one of their cheerful , noisy meetings in July to receive a cheque for WWF . |
| 19 | The demob was as slow for them as it was for us . |
| 20 | It reminded me yet again that our captivity was as much of a strain for them as it was for us , here in Lebanon . |
| 21 | Our lodging was not free , as it was for our service colleagues ; we paid one guinea a week , and five shillings for transport ( which we could scarcely avoid ) , and a fixed regular sum for meals necessarily taken in the canteen at B.P. Nor did we receive travel warrants for our three-monthly seven-day leaves ; and in those days when civilian travel was frowned upon we had no uniform to prove that our journey was really necessary . |
| 22 | Consequently death is no longer in the midst of life as it was for our ancestors and still is in many Third World countries . |
| 23 | It would , however , be just as unfortunate for our understanding of Simmel to be confined to this aspect of his work as it was for his philosophy to be reduced to the simple model of freedom enshrined in a earlier tradition of American sociology . |