Example sentences of "[was/were] always for " in BNC.
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| 1 | His preferences were always for medals and engraved gems , and miniatures by artists such as Giulio Clovio , who painted the celebrated ‘ Farnese Hours ’ for him . |
| 2 | The great thing about Angie was that she was always for him . |
| 3 | His childhood exposure to life in the streets of a western town , still so new that most of the people who had founded it were still alive , had left him with no illusions about people or their motives , and it was always for the motive behind the question that he looked . |
| 4 | It was always for two million lire . ’ |
| 5 | After this Louis XIV spent relatively little money on his navy ; he had to defend his frontiers against the threat of invasion by land through Belgium , and naval supremacy was always for him a secondary consideration . |
| 6 | Yet in everything that really mattered , their concern was always for each other — and of course the children . |
| 7 | Bella did n't want to be called guilty ; her instinct was always for ambiguity . |
| 8 | Her love was always for her people , and the quotations from her historic speeches ( which are not set to music ) represent her carefully-chosen communications to them . |