Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Where were you for the first eight ? |
2 | Yet after the success in India , it appeared that the job was his for the foreseeable future — only for the news to break at the beginning of the 1977 season that , when in Australia for the Centenary Test , he had used his position to recruit players to Kerry Packer 's World Series Cricket . |
3 | They did not act since the case was one for the Russian authorities alone . |
4 | The fighting season 1346–7 was one for the English to remember . |
5 | was there for the right moment and the right man . |
6 | The excitement of delving into the unknown was mine for the first time that day . |