Example sentences of "[was/were] for [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their private parts were firmly jammed in the wringer and all it needed was for somebody to the rescue . |
| 2 | And the stronger they were , the worse it was for them at the end of the picture . |
| 3 | At a public meeting last September he suggested that saying ‘ they ought to do something about it ’ was pointless , and boldly proposed that the only way to save the shop was for everyone in the village to club together and buy it . |
| 4 | When your income is not much above five or six pounds a week , as it was for me in the seventies , even a tin of dog food is out of the question . |
| 5 | It was for me like the young people out there doing their Licenza Classica . |
| 6 | And it says in this booklet that W H was for one for a period , the prospective Labour candidate for er Central , as was then . |