Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [was/were] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This was my first poem ever written and it was for a daffodil tea in our church . |
| 3 | ‘ If you 've got the money and it was for a favour lasting a day or two , then why do n't you just tell him the arrangement is ended and let Barbara Coleman leave ? ’ |
| 4 | From late 1813 trade improved , and it was for a time in 1814 brisk again . |
| 5 | But it was for a reason that would cut no ice with Jean-Claude and so I did not put it to him . |