Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I were to ask you for your address , what would you do ? |
| 2 | I was kidding myself for such a long time I began to ignore the risks . |
| 3 | A few seconds later I was despising myself for having been in any doubt . |
| 4 | Since then , I had managed to film them on their wintering grounds in India , but now I was seeing them for the first time at the other end of the journey . |
| 5 | Well this is , this is why I thought perhaps erm I did n't want to ask Jim too much or he would know I was buying them for him you see . |
| 6 | And it ended up I was buying it for less money than what I was paying monthly for rent . |
| 7 | Erm I 'm not , well I was boiling it for this |
| 8 | ‘ I always fancied my chances of playing against Dublin and so it worked out , but I was taking nothing for granted . |
| 9 | I was keeping it for cleaning the car . |
| 10 | that 's why I was asking them for , I just want to make it plain my Lord |
| 11 | If I 'm caught , I 'll say I was lifting her for myself . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Well — I was thanking Him for you . |
| 13 | I mean , all I use I mean , if I was making them for somebody I would use about four or five layers and then I would put a piece of lace of braid or something at the top |
| 14 | I was doing them for the wrong reasons — out of curiosity or for the money , rather than because I had a passion for doing them . |
| 15 | Except , that , except that of course I was doing everything for everybody . |
| 16 | My family was very very supportive my mum was very happy that I was doing something for myself later on in my life it will help me very much and my husband was very very good . |
| 17 | Well not so much cheaper cos I was most of the time I was doing it for nothing anyway . |
| 18 | I did think I was doing it for the best . |
| 19 | I was doing it for the drive anyway . |
| 20 | She stood up and looked round the room as though she were leaving it for the last time . |
| 21 | She glanced up at him , feeling oddly shy , almost as though she were meeting him for the first time with no doubts , no mistrust , between them . |
| 22 | The expletive sounded strange to the sergeant on Blanche 's lips , as if she were hearing it for the first time . |
| 23 | She made it sound as if she were saying it for the first time . |
| 24 | The last thing in the world she had thought of becoming was a parson 's wife , and if she were to consider it for any length of time she would refuse through lack of courage . |
| 25 | If you were seeing it for the first time , what impressions would you receive ? |
| 26 | If you get paid to do it or you were doing it for money I could appreciate it . |
| 27 | ‘ Naturally , but you 'd still have to say what the story was before you were offered anything for it . ’ |
| 28 | If you were protecting me for my own good , she thought , I would be cross with you , but not this cross . |
| 29 | I had no idea she was using me for a purpose of her own : I was too naive to realise until it dawned on me what it was , a few weeks later . |
| 30 | ‘ Perhaps she was saving it for you . ’ |