Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [noun] 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 No there 's they were , they were called but they were agents for their own ships .
7 They were murder for him , I could tell . ’
8 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 .
9 Every house had one or two people who were over forty-five and it was misery for them .
10 It was sex for its own sake , pure and ungarnished by civilised preliminaries such as visits to the cinema or candlelit dinners .
11 It was sex for its own sake , pure and ungarnished by visits to the cinema or candlelit dinners
12 It was work for her now , dealing with the bitch and the male accomplice in Newington Butts .
13 It was nonsense for her to say no one had a motive for murdering her husband .
14 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 .
15 No it was n't just eggs though it was erm like salads and there was steak , you could have one meal a day , right , but it was eggs for your breakfast , eggs for your dinner , your lunch
16 ‘ I think it was agony for her often , the balance between No 1 and No 2 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 It was time for her afternoon appointment .
20 It was time for me to disappear .
21 At the end of the season Chapman called me in and said it was time for me to decide one way or the other .
22 I could see that it was time for me to make the tea .
23 ‘ 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 .
24 We had several until I decided that it was time for me to sit on her lap .
25 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 .
26 Once I grasped the centrality of symbolism to the religion and grasped its effect , it was time for me to leave .
27 Then it was time for me to attend the evening reception on Britania .
28 It was time for me to go .
29 I knew when I woke that it was time for me to return .
30 After six years it was time for me to move on to Debenham High School .
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