Example sentences of "that was [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your grandfather had been a Poor Law Guardian and sharpened his razor on a leather strap that was also for giving beltings . |
| 2 | It was hard to urge forbearance and sympathy with the father on the son , all the more in face of that bitter resentment that was all for poor Mary Bohun , mother of six young children and dead at twenty-four . |
| 3 | But they had to be humoured before they could be diverted from the unobtainable to the treasure that was actually for sale . |
| 4 | But she said , after a while , in a pause that was there for her to fill , " I ca n't , Andrew . " |
| 5 | I had just turned sixteen and they put me in this place that was really for dossers . |