Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | The first play they mounted was for Alan and his family — to celebrate the completion of the pageant . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | The last thing I wanted was for some motorist to hit one of my owls just when it was establishing itself . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The last thing she wanted was for the local press to find out that she had a personal interest in finding Angy 's killer . |
| 10 | Frankly , the last thing she wanted was for him to come too close . |
| 11 | The last thing she wanted was for him to know just how badly his words had affected her . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The last thing she needed was for the plane to go without her . |
| 15 | The last thing they wanted was for the Americans to know they were about to learn their secrets . |
| 16 | At this stage Hitler 's plans were still fluid , but the last thing he wanted was for the useful Danzig problem to be solved . |
| 17 | He had no idea what an effort it had been for Topaz to keep up the easy flow of chatter . |
| 18 | But at the time I felt rejected and useless , because I was n't needed in the way I had been for so long. , |
| 19 | That 's the way it had been for longer than she could remember . |
| 20 | In his pronouncements , science was no longer subordinate to theology in the way it had been for Roger Bacon , Thomas Aquinas , or Nicole Oresme . |
| 21 | When I was a bit older , I thought he was probably a thief and that the bag he carried was for the loot . ’ |
| 22 | Last time it had been for a length of dress material . |