Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the place where we saw the 1:1,000,000 map , but there were none for sale , and in general the airfield was pretty sleepy . |
| 2 | Auxilliary nurses do not go on any courses so there were none for him to take . |
| 3 | Were you for instance more comfortable with a Mother fixation , I might give you a Catholic programme or a Russian Orthodox icon system . |
| 4 | Where were you for the first eight ? |
| 5 | What were we for ? |
| 6 | So desperate were we for hard news on our fellow hostages , and indeed for ourselves , that Brian and I found this very trying . |
| 7 | And the people that lived there there was were there for the season , but they would help with the harvest , so they go dyking and fencing and er r r and at the time of the shooting season they would be employed with poling man and dog man or something like that of long ago . |
| 8 | How desperate were they for work ? |
| 9 | The palaces of meaning that she built with Friend in the endless night inside her — what were they for ? |
| 10 | You were mine for the taking … ’ |
| 11 | Willy voiced the philosophy he had learned by experience — it was everyone for himself ; if you did n't take what you wanted , no one was likely to give it to you . |
| 12 | His second came at the ticket booth , where there was no-one for him to show his first-class ticket to . |
| 13 | There was nothing for it : I would have to run away . |
| 14 | There was nothing for it |
| 15 | Two good pieces of gear had encouraged me to make the move , but once started there was nothing for 15 feet . |
| 16 | The result was that on the Saturday morning , I told my mother there was nothing for me in England and I was going back to Germany to try and get my old job back . |
| 17 | There was nothing for him but a painful irony in their raucous clamour . |
| 18 | But there was nothing for filmmakers to do but plunge on , grab every chance that came their way and hope for the best . |
| 19 | There was nothing for it . |
| 20 | There was nothing for it , Mungo thought , but to follow Vic as often as possible , in the hope that he would lead the way to a solution . |
| 21 | For example , on high policy common opinion said that there was nothing for it but to stay in the ERM . |
| 22 | Paddy quickly took command , but with most of their gear missing and two men so badly injured that they had to be left behind , there was nothing for it but to try to make the rendezvous with the LRDG . |
| 23 | There was nothing for it but to attempt a take-off and try to make for Tobruk . |
| 24 | There was nothing for it but to try to make their way on foot out of the town and walk back to the rendezvous with Robin Gurdon . |
| 25 | There was nothing for white people in Dhang : just a cluster of shops and shacks ; stalls at the side of the road leading from the station ; a bicycle repair shop ; little wooden shops on stilts which sold biscuits , cigarettes and sweets . |
| 26 | There was nothing for it . |
| 27 | Angels posed obligingly in front of my easel and it was nothing for Christ to stand on the river in front of this Mill . |
| 28 | Incidentally , there was nothing for him from Paris this month . |
| 29 | It was nothing for him to take the ball off them and stick the knife in it to burst it . ’ |
| 30 | That avenue was obviously closed to us and there was nothing for it but to go en masse to Jimmy Coutts and lay our case before him . |