Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [pron] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He believed jungles were somewhere you went for revelation . |
| 2 | A grin of flashing white teeth was all he got for his trouble . |
| 3 | That was all he prayed for . |
| 4 | And Ben was all she had for companionship ; those who would have been her so-called friends she would n't let over her step , and those she would have liked to call friends would n't come near her step . |
| 5 | ‘ Last time I was here it rained for forty days . |
| 6 | It was then he knew for certain that the oriental he had just shot was not the one from whom he had wanted to exact retribution for injuring Pam — because at the other end of the corridor he found himself looking into the glittering black eyes of his hated enemy , Angel One . |
| 7 | In all the time she was there she asked for only two things , and in both cases I had to disappoint her . |