Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] was for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My brother Frankie and sister Liza were a little older than I was , so perhaps it was for this reason that I seemed to end up doing most of the chores . |
| 2 | Perhaps it was for this reason that I hated them as much as I resented menstruation itself . |
| 3 | And so it was for Former Labour Leader Michael Foot and front bench spokesmen , Chris Smith and Donald Dewar as they slugged it out with John Patten and Peter Lilley . |
| 4 | Maybe it was for that reason that the party leader singled Mr Prescott 's past year performance out for praise in an interview in The Sunday Correspondent yesterday , calling him , chummily , ‘ Johnny ’ . |
| 5 | Then it was for real , and each of the surveyors were totally in control and flying solo through a flight , two landings and a take off ! |
| 6 | Indeed it was for captive catfish farming projects that the product was first designed . |
| 7 | Doubtless it was for such reasons that the crown made for Queen Alexandra to display the Koh-i-Noor and the third and fourth Stars of Africa had a platinum rather than a gold frame . |
| 8 | He thought he could remember that he and Peter had fastened their rope to a spur or spike of rock and accordingly it was for such a feature that he searched . |