Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | she was for the top of the hockey team and I were for the football |
| 2 | Well , I was crazy … sure I was for a time . |
| 3 | ‘ I think he was better casting than I was for the part . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | How thankful I was for the strength these two shared with me ! |
| 7 | The proposal , which was for a referendum on the dissolution of the Byelarus Supreme Soviet , was denounced in a statement by the Council of Ministers on March 4 as an attempt to increase " social tension and confrontation " by blaming the Supreme Soviet and the Council of Ministers for the recent drop in living standards . |
| 8 | When we actually went to competitive tender , which was for a route improvement down near Leicester , they undercut us . |
| 9 | But for many cities jealousy of Milan was as powerful as hatred of the emperor 's control , and a rival faction formed under Pavia which was for a time loyal to Frederick — a map of the two teams shows in a fascinating way how difficult it was to love one 's neighbour in this world of riotous freedom and traditional internecine feuds . |
| 10 | Between 1821 and 1842 he took out five patents , one of them for a ‘ suspension railway ’ which was tried out unsuccessfully in Cheshunt , and two relating to a system of constructing roofs and bridge decks in corrugated wrought or cast iron , which was for a time quite extensively used . |
| 11 | Having been lucky with the only real audition I did which was for the RSC , I ca n't really complain about it . |
| 12 | Then Toby trudged towards the boarders ’ annexe which was for the moment his home . |
| 13 | Needless to say the proposed settlement — widely publicised — drew a good deal of criticism , almost entirely from the Left who were for a variety of reasons extremely hostile to white Rhodesians . |
| 14 | I wondered whether you were erm I wonder whether you were for the bullet or not ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Fenella stayed where she was for a moment , still staring up at the imprisoned Nuadu . |
| 17 | she was for the top of the hockey team and I were for the football |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A Russian emigre who was for a while vice president of research and development at Prime/Computervision , has caught the start-up bug . |
| 20 | All spring records except one were for the Downs , but all autumn records for the coast . |
| 21 | one were the one was for the artillery and one was for the infantry . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | One was for the bridegroom 's father and the other would never be worn . |
| 24 | He had condemned one of the men to death — which one was for the future . |
| 25 | one were the one was for the artillery and one was for the infantry . |
| 26 | There was for a period of some two months or so in the summer of 1922 a diversion which my mother and aunt enjoyed after the walk . |
| 27 | The more time they took , the more time there was for a crowd to gather . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |