Example sentences of "it was [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when I rung to take it , for them to take it back they had a special offer on and it was twelve weeks for forty pu , pa , you know , were doing it cheap |
| 2 | It was heady stuff for me . |
| 3 | He either did n't believe her , or was so unused to accepting answers unquestioningly that it was second nature for him to delve into the nitty-gritty . |
| 4 | Gary McKeown slanted over an inviting ball , but it was criminal negligence for the visitors to allow Gary Paterson the time and space to chest the ball down before burying it in the net . |
| 5 | Gary McKeown slanted over an inviting ball , but it was criminal negligence for the visitors to allow Gary Paterson the time and space to chest the ball down before burying it in the net . |
| 6 | It was standard procedure for such conglomerates to collect contemporary art , now that it had been recognized that such art was plentiful , reasonably affordable , and able to yield substantial returns . |
| 7 | Many years ago when I started in the profession , it was standard practice for auditors to mark clients ' records with a vouching mark or audit stamp . |
| 8 | In times of war it was standard practice for pilots to gain experience on a medium powered aircraft , such as the Harvard , before climbing into anything as powerful as the Corsair . |
| 9 | It was hopeless waiting for miracles , he said . |
| 10 | It was poor propaganda for the outside world to know that the granary of Europe was suffering from famine conditions . |
| 11 | Thus , the decision by the county at the end of the following season not to re-engage him and Garner came as an enormous surprise and caused a furore ; from the emotional angle it was poor reward for years of devoted service , but rationally , since the opportunity to sign up Martin Crowe of New Zealand , who promised so much , had either to be taken or lost , it was a sensible move . |
| 12 | It was easy work for him . |
| 13 | Did you see erm , they see in this paper the light did it were in Kingfisher book and it was seventeen pound for a roll |
| 14 | It was normal practice for the trademark to occupy the upper half of the design , while the title and other details occupied the lower half . |
| 15 | When an aircraft went on detachment , it was normal practice for those on board to stow their personal baggage in the bomb bays along with the aircraft spares and tool kits and this trip was no exception . |
| 16 | It was normal practice for Rome to establish buffer states on her frontiers in the form of client kingdoms , an arrangement which held only for the lifetime of the chosen ruler . |
| 17 | They gave us six piasters and told us it was advance pay for work on a rubber plantation not far away . |
| 18 | It was all gudgeon for Geoff Stanley ( Coventry Casters ) who used bloodworm to tempt 2–2–0 . |
| 19 | I think it was two hours for me I had to plough that one . |
| 20 | Eventually , when Radio Clyde said ‘ No recording , no Masses ’ , and the bishops got themselves into a situation when it was one law for Clyde and another for the BBC , did the recorded Mass become a possibility . |
| 21 | Fifty two litres roughly so if it was one voucher for fifteen that 's three in n it ? |
| 22 | But it was one thing for James I to have his ideas influenced by Scotland 's natural enemy , England . |
| 23 | It was one thing for the pale brown islanders to swim in their Mother Hubbards , or often , as I had been told , bare-breasted . |
| 24 | It was one thing for Jean-Claude to have had the experiences that made him uniquely suited to interpret Alain-Fournier 's novel ; it was quite another for those experiences to have laid the foundations for a creative , personal life . |
| 25 | It was one thing for his guardian to tell Harry to forget the circumstances of his birth , but would he do so if it meant his beloved daughter had to share that stigma ? |
| 26 | It was one thing for her to be rude about a fellow female , quite another for a man . |
| 27 | Parliament was thus taking the marital exemption into realms uncontemplated even by Hale , who believed that it was one thing for a man to have sexual intercourse with his wife without her consent , quite another for him to force her into sexual intercourse with others . |
| 28 | It was one thing for Miss Sally-Anne Tunstall , pampered beauty , to contemplate the horrors of poverty from the relative comfort of Vetch Street , but to see it in practice , that was quite another thing . |
| 29 | If they did consent , and accepted the money — it was good pay for this area — they wandered off before he had half finished , not wanting to be classed as figures of fun like him . |
| 30 | It was good fortune for BR to be able to pick up the 1938 survivors — only retained into the 1980s to bail out the Northern Line from a vast increase in traffic . |