Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] for [art] [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 | More people owned motor cars than previously : by 1956 there was one car for every three people in the United States ; in France and Britain the figure was one for every thirteen people . |
| 4 | On the second day we went out climbing again but the assessors — there was one for every two candidates — constantly posed us with problems to find out how we would deal with rescues and emergencies . |
| 5 | They did not act since the case was one for the Russian authorities alone . |
| 6 | The fighting season 1346–7 was one for the English to remember . |
| 7 | was there for the right moment and the right man . |
| 8 | The excitement of delving into the unknown was mine for the first time that day . |
| 9 | As Mr Smith admitted : ‘ It was anything for a quiet life , ’ and Jennie had her way . |