Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where were you for the first eight ? |
| 2 | And the people that lived there there was were there for the season , but they would help with the harvest , so they go dyking and fencing and er r r and at the time of the shooting season they would be employed with poling man and dog man or something like that of long ago . |
| 3 | You were mine for the taking … ’ |
| 4 | Yet after the success in India , it appeared that the job was his for the foreseeable future — only for the news to break at the beginning of the 1977 season that , when in Australia for the Centenary Test , he had used his position to recruit players to Kerry Packer 's World Series Cricket . |
| 5 | On the days he was going to see her , he woke up feeling that anything was possible , that the world was his for the asking . |
| 6 | By then , at the end of the century , the Secretary 's power was his for the taking . |
| 7 | But the more she thought about his arrogant assumptions , his conceited certainty that she was his for the taking , the more she bristled with indignation … |
| 8 | Even if she never saw him again , even if he married Dana , she was his for the rest of her life . |
| 9 | It had to be admitted that there was plenty for the voters to be disgruntled about . |
| 10 | In time , the ever-increasing number of visitors had opened up an entirely new source of income for the Heymouthians , and instead of having to depend on fishing as their primary source of income , they found the tourist trade was theirs for the developing . |
| 11 | Richter 's story was unearthed by Mario Mariscotti who wrote a book in Spanish called The Secret of Huemmel Island in which he tells how Argentina , during the Peronist regime , had mistakenly thought that fusion was its for the asking . |
| 12 | And then Lisabeth came to see what the noise was and he must have thought she was you for a minute — we had the curtains drawn , you see . |
| 13 | There was an element of fitness training in the Scots ' routines , but there was none for the Fijians . |
| 14 | It appeared that Princess Anne was not one of her admirers , and though Princess Anne 's views were at this time usually rather criticised this was something for the press to get its teeth into . |
| 15 | Always worrying you if there was something for the least . |
| 16 | and there was a lot of waste , but these new tables did bring that , it was something for the company it was more than anything , you know cos we were on the bonus system . |
| 17 | More people owned motor cars than previously : by 1956 there was one car for every three people in the United States ; in France and Britain the figure was one for every thirteen people . |
| 18 | On the second day we went out climbing again but the assessors — there was one for every two candidates — constantly posed us with problems to find out how we would deal with rescues and emergencies . |
| 19 | There was one for every play of the cycle — one for The Garden of Eden , one for The murder of Abel , one for The Sacrifice of Isaac , one for The destruction of the World … |
| 20 | Implicitly , the programme was one for the reform of the existing empire rather than its overthrow . |
| 21 | The fighting season 1346–7 was one for the English to remember . |
| 22 | That was one for the book . |
| 23 | This was one for the book . |
| 24 | The adjustment factor was one for the under 65 group and three for the over 65 group . |
| 25 | They did not act since the case was one for the Russian authorities alone . |
| 26 | Well , that was one for the album : the ex-FAKINTIL sapper together with the malai Colonel 's wife , half-naked in her boudoir . |
| 27 | And anyway , what was there for a girl like her ? |
| 28 | was there for the right moment and the right man . |
| 29 | So troubled was he for a girl who , after all , was of age , high-spirited and clever , that after she had gone , and Matey had answered reflectively when he had asked her if she knew where McAllister was going , ‘ I do n't know . |
| 30 | The excitement of delving into the unknown was mine for the first time that day . |