Example sentences of "was [pron] for [pers pn] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His second came at the ticket booth , where there was no-one for him to show his first-class ticket to . |
| 2 | There was nothing for me to hold on to prevent myself from getting closer and closer to the pool . |
| 3 | There was nothing for me to do , I was too young to get a work permit , and mum was determined we were n't going to start breaking the law the minute we 'd got there , so she called Auntie Muriel and Auntie Muriel said why not . |
| 4 | The bottom line was that there was nothing for them to do and those thoroughbred young men were too bright and too vigorous to put up with endless bull . |
| 5 | He pulled the door to behind him — he was reasonably certain there was nothing for him to see in the engine-room anyway — and stooped to examine the three dead men . |
| 6 | But there was nothing for him to see . |
| 7 | There was nothing for him to do now until Kynaston had finished . |
| 8 | There was nothing for him to do except settle down to some work . |
| 9 | There was nothing for him to do but play cards , which was allowed . |
| 10 | It was nothing for him to take the ball off them and stick the knife in it to burst it . ’ |
| 11 | There was nothing for him to say . |
| 12 | She 'd reassure him over and over that she was fine , she was safe , there was nothing for him to worry about , and Ashdown would then ring Joe and pass along anything new or helpful that he 'd been able to pick out of the conversation . |
| 13 | There was nothing for it to work on . |
| 14 | it was nothing for you to have the er sole of your sh shoe flapping off and having to wear 'em till the p there was a little man that used to mend the shoes in Hirael there and you 'd go to him and he 'd put a couple of nails , never charge you for it you know . |
| 15 | That was something for her to say . |
| 16 | There was something for her to fight . |
| 17 | And the Bishop married me there and the vicar and er quite a lot of people had come there from all over like because I was being marrying in the Welsh church you see , I did n't have a lot of And the Bishop married me , that was something for them to come . |
| 18 | But where else , she would have argued , was there for her to go in this dreary East Anglian village on a dull November evening ? |