Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | At least — ’ she gave a rueful laugh ‘ — she was for the first twelve years of her life . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | she was for the top of the hockey team and I were for the football |
| 8 | Of course , it was for the church to decide what constituted a spiritual or moral matter . |
| 9 | 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 . ) |
| 10 | It was for the party refusing to disclose to establish his right to refuse . |
| 11 | ‘ If Haines recommended the Jockey Club should be abolished we would have to consider it and if we felt it was for the benefit of racing we would do it , ’ Lord Hartington said . |
| 12 | It was a little Mini van that he ran around in saying it was for the band but really he had it because he thought it was ‘ a good shagging mobile ’ with just enough space in the back for ‘ entertaining ’ . |
| 13 | Whatever lay ahead , maybe it was for the best . |
| 14 | ‘ They said it was for the best , ’ said Gloria . |
| 15 | Perhaps it was for the same reason that Mrs Parvis , so Gloria claimed , put crushed up egg-shells into powdered egg so that the lodgers would think they were eating something which they were n't . |
| 16 | It was for the great annual festa of 3 September , with its cattle fairs , bullfights and zarzuelas . |
| 17 | Life had to go on and music was presumably as important to ordinary people trying to survive in Berlin as it was for the people who crowded into the National Gallery in London to hear Myra Hess 's lunchtime recitals . |
| 18 | So it was for the sake of her playing that she defected ? |
| 19 | It is clear that local government promises to be an even worse headache for the new government than it was for the old . |
| 20 | There had always been a continued physical Jewish presence there over the centuries ; it was for the Jews too an ancient homeland . |
| 21 | This situation was worse for the Communist Party women than it was for the men . |
| 22 | It is a typical British beef type and perhaps for that reason its numbers at home are now dangerously low : fewer than 450 breeding cows were registered in 1987 when it was for the first time classified as a rare breed , though in the nineteenth century it had been the mainstay of the Scottish beef industry . |
| 23 | Generally speaking , the longer the period of planning for an escape the more satisfactory it was for the prospective escaper . |
| 24 | As Scott later pointed out , he then reversed his usual argument that Gothic did not provide enough light , by explaining how difficult it was for the Speaker to control the sunlight coming through the windows of his house in the Houses of Parliament . |
| 25 | We were both sad , but it was for the best . |
| 26 | Yes , fish it was for the mental energy to face our new situation . |
| 27 | When Bill left us in October 1964 for Coventry , with whom we had been promoted just six months previously , it was for the then record fee of £35,000 for a goalkeeper and he repaid that fee to the Sky Blues in a distinguished career of 395 matches over the next decade . |
| 28 | Little did they know that it was for the pocket of Mr S. Caplan . |
| 29 | If this a new beginning for South Africa , their first Test since their isolation from international cricket in 1970 , because of their government 's apartheid policies , so it was for the West Indies . |
| 30 | It was for the Bank team that he performed his most noteworthy cricket feat , when against Earlswood CC in 1981 he performed the hat trick with his slow off-spinners at the age of 76 . |