Example sentences of "but it was for " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	We were both sad , but it was for the best .
2	‘ But it was for richer or poorer and I 'd be happy to live in a cardboard box if it was with my husband .
3	There was a right decision and a wrong decision , but it was for the king to make it , and if the wrong one were made Anselm would leave the kingdom .
4	Junior naval officers were nominally ratings , for a midshipman was a warrant officer in contrast to the army equivalents , the ensign of foot or cornet of cavalry , who enjoyed commissioned rank , but it was for that reason that the Admiralty did not monopolise first appointments in the fleet , only interesting themselves in appointments at the rank of lieutenant or above .
5	But it was for a reason that would cut no ice with Jean-Claude and so I did not put it to him .
6	‘ But it was for the best that it did n't survive , ’ Cynthia said quickly .
7	But it was for the lock from the people , you know and he , he got round like this , and this is the God 's truth as well again , he 'd come to me from America and er they , I had to make locks for certain people they called them statos , status symbols there , in their own houses , you know , where they put this lock on and anybody as he 's got one like that , you know and from America to Dick in Willenhall to make them .
8	‘ I think Gran might have demanded the money because she thought I had a right to it , but it was for love of me and despair at our poverty — her kind of rough justice . ’
9	No , it meant you were there but it was for other people to do something about it — if anything had to be done .
10	Another way of doing this kind of analysis is to treat long vowels and diphthongs as composed of a vowel plus a consonant ; this may seem a less obvious way of proceeding , but it was for many years the choice of most American phonologists .
11	See all the time she was in pain I laughed even but it was for nerves like .

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