Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [was/were] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When eventually she left the sitting-room to go to bed , she pattered into the hall , knowing in advance that she was in for another wretched night of it . |
| 2 | The you said , that you were away for six years . |
| 3 | And would you just would you do they food all the time that you were there for twenty years ? |
| 4 | And I should , well it struck me that they were there for good and all . |
| 5 | I agreed , but pointed out that it was n't for little boys . ’ |
| 6 | She was so absorbed that it was not for some time that she realized that the sea on her left was no longer the water of the estuary but had become the ocean . |
| 7 | This idea was so firmly rooted that it was perhaps for this reason that these results from radio astronomy seem not to have been widely accepted at first . |
| 8 | Mrs. O'Brien said that she believed what her husband told her about the company doing well and having good potential , but she was concerned for her son and felt that it was only for three weeks , and if it would do the trick , she would sign . |
| 9 | Bishop Wilkins thought that had Baxter ‘ lived in the primitive times , he would have been one of the fathers of the church ; and that it was enough for one age to produce such a person as Mr. Baxter . ’ |
| 10 | Although enrolled student numbers increased during the period in all types of classes , membership of the WEA gradually declined , an indication perhaps that it was more for personal educational value rather than support for a wider social movement that adults attended District classes . |
| 11 | The awful thing is that the movies that I 've been involved with in the last erm few years have entailed my being abroad a great deal , and I was made in New York entirely and I was there for six or seven months , and the difficulty is that when you then make the movie and you take it round the world , you 're away for another three or four months and so you end up being out of the country for quite a long time , so I 've been nothing like as active with the university . |
| 12 | And I was there for twenty five years . |
| 13 | Woke up one morning and I was in for twenty thousand . |
| 14 | So if I was off for two or three years then the rate of inflation was high , then it would be ten per cent each those years |
| 15 | It 's cos I was n't for that . |
| 16 | and you were there for half past five . |
| 17 | In fact , if she were there for two months , it would be unlikely that it would regard her as a resident . |
| 18 | She saw his glance go over her , ending at the tips of her sensible shoes , and wondered if she was in for some punishing ten-mile hike . |
| 19 | If you were here for last Sunday morning 's sermon , John answered that question when he started the series on Elisha . |
| 20 | If you were in for 9 in the morning , you were out at 9.30 and the other fellow must not book in till 9.31 a.m . |
| 21 | They took both of us down the block , and we were there for two days — no blankets , no bed , nothing , just a mattress on the floor . |
| 22 | I met my first boyfriend when I was in the fifth year at school , and we were together for six years . |
| 23 | We could hear them banging about , shifting things and wondered nervously if we were in for another move . |
| 24 | I should n't be surprised if we were in for some more snow . ’ |
| 25 | On most occasions when mass demonstrations took place there were clashes with the police and it was primarily for this reason that the Labour Party and the TUC tried to discourage such a form of protest . |
| 26 | During his childhood , Holovich had been taught Russian by his mother and it was ostensibly for that reason that his company asked him to visit Moscow — a quite spurious reason because we supply most adequate and experienced interpreters for commercial negotiations with foreign concerns . |
| 27 | In the locker room the steel grilles are pasted with letters that say , Thanks for your kindness for making a tough time much easier to bear , and , If it was n't for all of you there at the hospital I do n't know how we would have survived . |
| 28 | No , no oh I agree people should n't let dogs foul on the pavement and in shopping places and things , cos it can be dangerous , but out in the woodlands if it was n't for all the animals we would n't have any green stuff , trees and bushes seagulls are up . |
| 29 | And there 's Master Tristram pretending he 's not listening to his father , who might 've been sitting in the Fowey stocks by now if it was n't for that same father 's efforts . " |
| 30 | ‘ She 'd be alive today if it was n't for that . ’ |