Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And the people that lived there there was were there for the season , but they would help with the harvest , so they go dyking and fencing and er r r and at the time of the shooting season they would be employed with poling man and dog man or something like that of long ago . |
2 | You were mine for the taking … ’ |
3 | Even if she never saw him again , even if he married Dana , she was his for the rest of her life . |
4 | On the days he was going to see her , he woke up feeling that anything was possible , that the world was his for the asking . |
5 | By then , at the end of the century , the Secretary 's power was his for the taking . |
6 | But the more she thought about his arrogant assumptions , his conceited certainty that she was his for the taking , the more she bristled with indignation … |
7 | It had to be admitted that there was plenty for the voters to be disgruntled about . |
8 | In time , the ever-increasing number of visitors had opened up an entirely new source of income for the Heymouthians , and instead of having to depend on fishing as their primary source of income , they found the tourist trade was theirs for the developing . |
9 | Richter 's story was unearthed by Mario Mariscotti who wrote a book in Spanish called The Secret of Huemmel Island in which he tells how Argentina , during the Peronist regime , had mistakenly thought that fusion was its for the asking . |
10 | And then Lisabeth came to see what the noise was and he must have thought she was you for a minute — we had the curtains drawn , you see . |
11 | There was an element of fitness training in the Scots ' routines , but there was none for the Fijians . |
12 | It appeared that Princess Anne was not one of her admirers , and though Princess Anne 's views were at this time usually rather criticised this was something for the press to get its teeth into . |
13 | and there was a lot of waste , but these new tables did bring that , it was something for the company it was more than anything , you know cos we were on the bonus system . |
14 | There was one for every play of the cycle — one for The Garden of Eden , one for The murder of Abel , one for The Sacrifice of Isaac , one for The destruction of the World … |
15 | Implicitly , the programme was one for the reform of the existing empire rather than its overthrow . |
16 | That was one for the book . |
17 | This was one for the book . |
18 | Well , that was one for the album : the ex-FAKINTIL sapper together with the malai Colonel 's wife , half-naked in her boudoir . |
19 | And anyway , what was there for a girl like her ? |
20 | So troubled was he for a girl who , after all , was of age , high-spirited and clever , that after she had gone , and Matey had answered reflectively when he had asked her if she knew where McAllister was going , ‘ I do n't know . |
21 | Was it for a charity ? |
22 | Whose turn was it for a facilities trip ? |
23 | Was it for the cash ? |
24 | He told Nicola the programme was looking tired and the job was hers for the asking ’ |
25 | And Douglas had promised that Shiona 's lifelong ambition — to study fashion design in London — was hers for the taking if she could make the grade . |
26 | Miguelito the magnificent was hers for the taking , and she had sent him away , frills and all . |