Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [pron] [noun sg] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She found it painful to anticipate the poor man 's misery , and was dismayed co recognize how ferocious was her dislike for the woman . |
| 2 | Another familiar failing was his distaste for the give-and-take of bargaining . |
| 3 | There was n't even a mantle , it as a wall bracket that came out of the wall with a little tiny gas jet that fanned out sot of thing and that was your illumination for the the bedroom . |
| 4 | That was his reward for a brevet lieutenant-colonelcy in a cavalry regiment and it was more money than Sharpe had ever earned in his life . |
| 5 | That was his decree for the man he loved best in the world . |
| 6 | I remember their leader turning to go and wondering whether that was his signal for an all-out attack . |