Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] for the " 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 There was an element of fitness training in the Scots ' routines , but there was none for the Fijians .
13 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 .
14 Always worrying you if there was something for the least .
15 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 .
16 Implicitly , the programme was one for the reform of the existing empire rather than its overthrow .
17 The fighting season 1346–7 was one for the English to remember .
18 That was one for the book .
19 This was one for the book .
20 The adjustment factor was one for the under 65 group and three for the over 65 group .
21 They did not act since the case was one for the Russian authorities alone .
22 Well , that was one for the album : the ex-FAKINTIL sapper together with the malai Colonel 's wife , half-naked in her boudoir .
23 was there for the right moment and the right man .
24 The excitement of delving into the unknown was mine for the first time that day .
25 Was it for the cash ?
26 He told Nicola the programme was looking tired and the job was hers for the asking ’
27 And Douglas had promised that Shiona 's lifelong ambition — to study fashion design in London — was hers for the taking if she could make the grade .
28 Miguelito the magnificent was hers for the taking , and she had sent him away , frills and all .
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