Example sentences of "[pers pn] was for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was for a short time privileged to share in the joy and vitality and the oneness with Almighty God in his Luo people ( Anne Marie will gladly give a talk and show slides to any interested groups in the North West . |
| 2 | Well , I was crazy … sure I was for a time . |
| 3 | How thankful I was for the strength these two shared with me ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I think he was better casting than I was for the part . |
| 7 | Nell stayed as she was for a long time , then had an inspiration . |
| 8 | But the next time Cecilia saw Daphne Bleech-Palmer Tina 's words came back to her and she was for a while shy and constrained . |
| 9 | Fenella stayed where she was for a moment , still staring up at the imprisoned Nuadu . |
| 10 | At least — ’ she gave a rueful laugh ‘ — she was for the first twelve years of her life . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | she was for the top of the hockey team and I were for the football |
| 13 | They often discussed his family together and how hard it was for a single man to bring up children alone . |
| 14 | This time it was for a new church in Gainsborough to honour the Lincolnshire-born John Robinson , pastor to the ‘ Pilgrim Fathers ’ although he did not actually sail in the Mayflower . |
| 15 | These days line is , in some cases , less than half the diameter than it was for a given breaking strain . |
| 16 | The idea is to note the activity ( which is planned by the classteacher alongside other teachers ) very briefly , to describe whether it was for a whole class , a group , or perhaps an individual . |
| 17 | This was my first poem ever written and it was for a daffodil tea in our church . |
| 18 | The linesman said it was for a push and handball . |
| 19 | I say I worked , but I mean it was for a charity which ran one of these centres where they try and help the socially deprived . |
| 20 | ‘ My advisers have made it clear that there would be no point in getting involved in stocks and shares unless it was for a minimum of five years and better still 10 years . ’ |
| 21 | They knew how important it was for a baby to have fresh air and sun . |
| 22 | If it was for a film and it was a good part , then yes I would . |
| 23 | On the other hand , it was for a very long time the only kind of popular medical and natural science handbook which was available to laypeople , who possessed little knowledge of such matters other than their own experiences and the tales of other . |
| 24 | Alas , it was for a less creditable reason … it was because he wanted , though for the loftiest scientific purposes , to take advantage of her . |
| 25 | It was for a single person really was n't it there ? |
| 26 | But it was for a reason that would cut no ice with Jean-Claude and so I did not put it to him . |
| 27 | " I thought for a while it was for a baby of your own , " she said . |
| 28 | It was for a baby . ’ |
| 29 | It was for a party in one of the upstairs rooms , but it had been a long time ago . |
| 30 | It was for a Bing Crosby film and Ella said jokingly , ‘ We had to come . |