Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [noun sg] for [pron] " 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 | She was larger than life , she had seen the world , she was game for anything , she was jolly and vibrant , spoke her mind ; all in all , she was fun to be with . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ If he had any idea of what she was doing for us , MoD does n't want it spread around . |
| 5 | Much of the time the principal performers were not even aware of what we were doing for them . |
| 6 | They were murder for him , I could tell . ’ |
| 7 | At first it were good because it were incentive for her to keep going because she 'd , you know , paid so much but toward the end , she said , it were getting ridiculous . |
| 8 | Every house had one or two people who were over forty-five and it was misery for them . |
| 9 | It was sex for its own sake , pure and ungarnished by civilised preliminaries such as visits to the cinema or candlelit dinners . |
| 10 | It was sex for its own sake , pure and ungarnished by visits to the cinema or candlelit dinners |
| 11 | It was work for her now , dealing with the bitch and the male accomplice in Newington Butts . |
| 12 | It was nonsense for her to say no one had a motive for murdering her husband . |
| 13 | Henry II , moreover , had performed homage while King and although it was homage for his continental possessions and not for his kingdom , this was a step to which none of his predecessors as Kings of England had ever steeled themselves . |
| 14 | ‘ I think it was agony for her often , the balance between No 1 and No 2 . |
| 15 | After the fun and games of the Cheranganis it was time for something a bit more serious , so we headed for Mount Elgon , in the far west of the country , straddling the border between Kenya and Uganda . |
| 16 | Then , when the show was over and it was time for everyone to wake up and go home , they opened up the roof — the whole thing rolls back to one side . |
| 17 | It was time for her afternoon appointment . |
| 18 | It was time for me to disappear . |
| 19 | At the end of the season Chapman called me in and said it was time for me to decide one way or the other . |
| 20 | I could see that it was time for me to make the tea . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | We had several until I decided that it was time for me to sit on her lap . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Once I grasped the centrality of symbolism to the religion and grasped its effect , it was time for me to leave . |
| 25 | Then it was time for me to attend the evening reception on Britania . |
| 26 | It was time for me to go . |
| 27 | I knew when I woke that it was time for me to return . |
| 28 | After six years it was time for me to move on to Debenham High School . |
| 29 | The half-hour eventually crawled round , then it was time for me to go and get ready . |
| 30 | ‘ I believed her when she assured me I would meet someone much more suitable when it was time for me to get married . ’ |