Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] for the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Implicitly , the programme was one for the reform of the existing empire rather than its overthrow . |
| 12 | That was one for the book . |
| 13 | This was one for the book . |
| 14 | Well , that was one for the album : the ex-FAKINTIL sapper together with the malai Colonel 's wife , half-naked in her boudoir . |
| 15 | Was it for the cash ? |
| 16 | He told Nicola the programme was looking tired and the job was hers for the asking ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Miguelito the magnificent was hers for the taking , and she had sent him away , frills and all . |