Example sentences of "[was/were] [ex0] for " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 What was there for anybody , back there ? ’
3 And anyway , what was there for a girl like her ?
4 Even more , what was there for some of its women except that or selling themselves ?
5 was there for the right moment and the right man .
6 What was there for her now ?
7 Dr Losberne went up to examine Oliver , and was there for some time .
8 But where else , she would have argued , was there for her to go in this dreary East Anglian village on a dull November evening ?
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