Example sentences of "[pron] was for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | How thankful I was for the strength these two shared with me ! |
| 2 | I can not resist the admission that I was profoundly flattered when a telephone call from Harold Wilson at Downing Street invited me to mediate on the basis that , so far as they could see , I was for the moment the only tolerable candidate . |
| 3 | Which is why I 'm ringing , ’ Rosemary revealed , and confessed , ‘ I have n't let myself face how lonely I was for the sound of his voice . |
| 4 | ‘ I think he was better casting than I was for the part . |
| 5 | Having been lucky with the only real audition I did which was for the RSC , I ca n't really complain about it . |
| 6 | On the same day that Scott was appointed architect for the new India Office , 1st January , 1859 , came the opening of the controversy which was for the next thirty months to dominate the campaign to rebuild the Foreign Office . |
| 7 | Then Toby trudged towards the boarders ’ annexe which was for the moment his home . |
| 8 | In those days , it never occurred to me but to employ my time as best I could , without any thought of ‘ going on the dole ’ , which was for the underprivileged . |
| 9 | The first two rounds of voting — in north Lebanon and the Bekaa on Aug. 23 , and in Beirut and Mount Lebanon on Aug. 30 — produced some wins for Hezbollah , an Islamic group aligned with Syrian policy-making which was for the first time participating in elections as a parliamentary party . |
| 10 | I had the right card , it was the card number five which was for the hot wash as , hot wax as well . |
| 11 | At least — ’ she gave a rueful laugh ‘ — she was for the first twelve years of her life . |
| 12 | They had walked quite some miles , she realised on the return journey , and she had been in his company for quite some while , so it came as no surprise to also realise how totally unsuited she was for the job she was there to do . |
| 13 | she was for the top of the hockey team and I were for the football |
| 14 | ‘ So everything was for the best , Maggie ? ’ |
| 15 | One was for the bridegroom 's father and the other would never be worn . |
| 16 | He had condemned one of the men to death — which one was for the future . |
| 17 | The nearest one had been for the use of the Conway 's house , the second one was for the use of Tommy Grant and his family . |
| 18 | one were the one was for the artillery and one was for the infantry . |
| 19 | one were the one was for the artillery and one was for the infantry . |
| 20 | Labour condemned General Noriega as a corrupt dictator , but Mr Gerald Kaufman , the shadow Foreign Secretary , demanded to know what rationale in international law there was for the invasion . |
| 21 | What little excitement there was for the colourful Cagliari crowd of 30,000 came from the Italian midfielder Giannini . |
| 22 | But when , after those two years , the valley had almost imperceptibly widened and there was for the first time , not those black enclosing cliffs , but the vista of a normal life , even of happiness , a landscape over which it was possible to believe the sun might shine , she had become unwittingly embroiled in the racial politics of her school . |
| 23 | His first run there was for the Scottish Students in the match against their English counterparts at Myreside the day before the Calcutta Cup match in January . |
| 24 | Sometimes , for those who do n't quail , there is a happy finale — as there was for the hunchback of Belorussia ( or was it Kovno Gubernia , or the far side of the Pale ? ) whose demon companions danced his hump off , and sent him home with his shoulders straight and strong . |
| 25 | The more highly organised and consciously efficient foreign offices became , the less scope there was for the individual who did not fit easily into these bigger and more complex machines . |
| 26 | But the Whigs had miscalculated how much sympathy there was for the High Church position . |
| 27 | They just stopped him from choking the life out of bobby Carter because he had said everybody was for the war : if we did n't show them Russians what was what , who would ? |
| 28 | Of course , it was for the church to decide what constituted a spiritual or moral matter . |
| 29 | Petipa 's orders to Tchaikovsky were sacrosanct because the composer knew that if that ‘ dictator ’ did not approve the music would have to be changed ( as it was for The Nutcracker . ) |
| 30 | It was for the party refusing to disclose to establish his right to refuse . |