Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But you were only away for ten minutes . ’ |
| 2 | They were only together for this term : after that — who knows ? |
| 3 | We were only there for twenty-four hours , working throughout the night . |
| 4 | S said that she needed the car to take her family to the airport and that in any case they were only abroad for one week out of two , so she would need the car again on her return . |
| 5 | In Christchurch we were fortunate in having a house to go to ; the Scraggs , friends of the Bakers , were away overseas for 3 weeks and were happy for us to ‘ sit ’ the house for them . |
| 6 | They were not yet for everyday perusal . |
| 7 | Further consideration is to be given to this topic , but it was agreed that it would be generally more helpful if we understand that family services , were not necessarily for those with families , but a celebration of the whole church . |
| 8 | The war made severe inroads into his livelihood and at times he would be forced onto the hills to join the gangs doing the walling , but he hated being away from his family and they too suffered from the separation and besides the wages were not enough for all seven of them . |
| 9 | It was certainly a convincing win but the warning signs were already there for all to see : despite the forwards winning a barrel-load of good possession , the Scottish three-quarters failed to score a single try at home in front of a vociferous support and against a decrepit Welsh side . |
| 10 | Maddock came , Maddock were n't here for this morning 's fucking Economics lesson , exam . |
| 11 | Half the facts are wrong , we were n't there for fucking carnival . |
| 12 | Franklin D Roosevelt found that happy days were here again for 30 years with his lover Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd . |
| 13 | A similar tendency was observed in in-service B.Eds , which were almost entirely for Primary teachers . |
| 14 | In six months which included many business trips , they were never apart for one night . |
| 15 | The reason that these were given was most probably for quick identification , for at this time most men worked on the cement factories where father and son and uncles worked together , some with the same Christian names and a nickname was necessary for a man to know who was needed . |
| 16 | It was all right for big removals but not certainly for three-piece suites and the like . |
| 17 | Maisie , from deep inside her black linen bag , was muttering about how it was all right for some people . |
| 18 | It was perhaps partly for this reason that on 21 September he ordered General Enrique Varela ( who had taken over from Yagüe when the latter became ill ) to make a detour to Toledo , to relieve what remained of nearly 2,000 Nationalists who had been besieged in the giant fortress — the alcazar — since the end of July . |
| 19 | Of those fourteen speeches er er er only the Noble Lord , Lord Tebbit who was only here for half of the Debate has supported er er the idea that there should not be a local authority majority on the Debate . |
| 20 | You know I was only away for two nights , it felt like about a week . |
| 21 | But I was very lucky , I was only there for six weeks ; I was very , very lucky . |
| 22 | And I was only there for four months and . |
| 23 | Further advancement , however , was slow indeed for those officers who were unable to purchase a step in rank in their turn . |
| 24 | It was not however for geographical reasons an acknowledgement that could have been applied across the Atlantic ; and subsequent history in the British Isles emphasised a rider or refinement without which the axiom itself is not complete . |
| 25 | That was not only for selfish reasons . |
| 26 | These results are in contrast with the New York Case Control Study which showed that cholesterol values in patients with advanced colorectal carcinomas were significantly different from those of controls ; this was not so for early disease . |
| 27 | He told a Labour Co-ordinating Committee rally that it was not enough for Labour to win the next election . |
| 28 | In the end even that was not enough for continued survival . |
| 29 | Standards were high , as it was appreciated from the outset that it was not enough for such workers " to have a heart as big as a football and to be able to fingerspell and sign . " |
| 30 | If possible , life was harder even for these ragged redskins than it had been for their forefathers after the war with Rope Thrower , when their livelihood had been deliberately burned away from them . |