Example sentences of "was [adv] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his hesitation was enough for her . |
| 2 | ‘ I know , but she told me once that that was enough for her . |
| 3 | Later , later , she would tell him — of the embassy , Papa and J.D. — but for the moment it was enough for her to be the wounded girl whom he had healed . |
| 4 | She was not to be trapped into suspicion again ; if he knew his power so well that his presence was unnecessary , that was enough for her . |
| 5 | Maybe having Rohan — being his wife — was enough for her , and she did n't mind occupying some secondary place in his affections . |
| 6 | I told her I had a job for Duncan and there was money in it and that was enough for her to yell ‘ Duncan ! ’ so loud I felt I heard it without the need of the phone . |
| 7 | A quick glance between Rose and the girls was enough for them to know that it was better to make no mention of their elder brother . |
| 8 | Some needed only to know that we existed — that was enough for them to throw themselves wholeheartedly into the gay life . |
| 9 | That gave me an extra day off , since Jack had decided that one practice round was enough for him . |
| 10 | It was something people of his age were not supposed to do and that was enough for him . |
| 11 | He was told that out-patient treatment was enough for him . |
| 12 | Yet he could not stop short of that moment , and that was enough for him to know . |
| 13 | This was enough for me . |
| 14 | It was enough for me , the last straw . |
| 15 | He says : ‘ I 'm not motivated by money , otherwise I would have quit after I 'd made my first eight million dollars , which was enough for me . |
| 16 | That was enough for me . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , it was enough for me . |
| 18 | But that was enough for me . |
| 19 | ‘ What she did say , though , was enough for me to know that Leith and I wo n't be moving to London . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Sometimes I had to sit on the tobacco setter , putting plants in the ground , but one summer was enough for me , ’ she recalls . |
| 21 | It 's almost painful to tell kids who have gone to see The Graduate eight times that once was enough for you because you 've already seen it eighty times with Charles Ray and Robert Harron and Richard Barthlemess and Richard Cromwell and Charles Farrell … |
| 22 | But the show was all for nothing : there were no punters out there , except for a scattering of people , hunched into anoraks , hurrying home to get out of the persistent drizzle . |
| 23 | And it was all for nothing . |
| 24 | It was all for nothing . |
| 25 | It was all for nothing ! |
| 26 | But in the end it was all for nothing , because I got pregnant anyway . |
| 27 | Barnet fear : Barnet manager Edward Stein and his newly promoted side are today waiting to see if their season of glory was all for nothing . |
| 28 | It left her free to be moved by the whole range of feeling , which was fragmented by personal action : the enmeshed lovers , the pleasure of the children , the beauty of her daughter , the fondling of the gentle night air , the great sky deepening gradually but surely , as it was being veiled in film on film of darker blues and velvets , it was all for her . |
| 29 | This was all for her benefit . |
| 30 | Tragically , it was all for nought . |