Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [be] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last thing she needed was for the plane to go without her . |
| 2 | Agnes , tanned , huge , all beads and bright caftan , determined to give birth in the lotus position ( in which she claimed the child had been conceived ) while going ‘ Om ’ , refused to answer any of my father 's questions about where she had been for the three years and who she had been with . |
| 3 | The last thing she wanted was for the local press to find out that she had a personal interest in finding Angy 's killer . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Those whom they encountered were for the most part leading precarious lives ; they lacked the leisure , the mental energy , even the vocabulary , for speculation about the great issues of heaven and hell , death and judgement . |
| 6 | It was a tradition that avoided any real contemplation of the root causes of German unease ; their preference for ‘ action ’ , rested secure in the knowledge that everything they did was for the good of the nation , sanctioned by law and sanctioned by the German people . |
| 7 | They were unfortunate in that batting conditions for them were not as favourable as they had been for the West Indians . |
| 8 | Ipswich were as lethargic at the start of the second half as they had been for the majority of the first and on the hour , in an attempt to liven them up , Lyall brought off Milton and Goddard to introduce Palmer and Johnson . |
| 9 | They were located above the centre of the road instead of being drawn out to one side , as they had been for the trams . |
| 10 | But the South African Rugby Board and the South African Rugby Union continued to get bogged down , as they had been for the last three years , even with the help of intermediaries of the stature of Nelson Mandela , in their attempts to reach accord and form one , united body for rugby football in their country . |
| 11 | The last thing they wanted was for the Americans to know they were about to learn their secrets . |
| 12 | All it needed was for the envelope to be stuck down . |
| 13 | Little damage had been done , all it needed was for the cargo to be reassembled , but , while several tourists were rushing energetically around attempting to do this , the drivers of the carts had taken time off to chat . |
| 14 | His particular predilections when he started were for the young artists of his won age who were beginning to reject the immediate traditions of their predecessors and experiment with new formulas of expression and technique in the 1940s and 1950s . |
| 15 | It is unlikely that anti-Semitism was as powerful in its motivational force for recruits in the Party 's ‘ mass phase ’ after 1929–30 as it had been for the early activist core of the NSDAP . |
| 16 | It was a fortress town and a trading centre , as it had been for the Romans 800 years earlier . |
| 17 | In all the most important affairs of life , liberty remained for him what it had been for the last thirty years , a state of will which could not depart from rectitude . |
| 18 | It was how it had been for the past two weeks and the young woman tried to ignore her protesting muscles and her aching back as she stared into the hearth and watched the tiny flames flickering in and out of the carefully banked-up grate . |
| 19 | When I was a bit older , I thought he was probably a thief and that the bag he carried was for the loot . ’ |
| 20 | At this stage Hitler 's plans were still fluid , but the last thing he wanted was for the useful Danzig problem to be solved . |