Example sentences of "and [pers pn] was [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We watched you come home , we saw you go into the house and I was all for going right in after you and confronting Imogen , telling you the truth , because I had learned all about how she had dragged you from place to place , from house to house . |
| 2 | So a week later I moved in , and I was there for a year-and-a-half . |
| 3 | So I erm , I erm , was put into the Royal Army Pay Corp and posted up to Barnet , North London and I was there for quite a while , we all transferred down to Winchester . |
| 4 | And I was there for the erm oh about fourteen months in all with the shooting . |
| 5 | And I was there for twenty five years . |
| 6 | I was waving but no-one would stop and I was there for nearly half an hour before a man pulled over and helped me . |
| 7 | Well er going back to when I started serving my time as an apprentice er I think I started with eleven shillings and I was there for about nine months when the manager come over and says to me he had been paying me short . |
| 8 | and I was there for nigh on two and a half years and er , then we moved from there to Germany |
| 9 | The awful thing is that the movies that I 've been involved with in the last erm few years have entailed my being abroad a great deal , and I was made in New York entirely and I was there for six or seven months , and the difficulty is that when you then make the movie and you take it round the world , you 're away for another three or four months and so you end up being out of the country for quite a long time , so I 've been nothing like as active with the university . |
| 10 | Woke up one morning and I was in for twenty thousand . |
| 11 | We just had to sit there all day on our own , and I was in for a couple of weeks . |
| 12 | He hoped Barbara could read the sub-text here : that if she was offering him some kind of invitation — and he was not for a moment suggesting that he was worthy of such a thing if she were — then he was regretfully declining it , on the understanding that both of them knew why . |
| 13 | And he was there for quite a while . |
| 14 | ‘ There was no traffic for miles , but he looked right and left for about five minutes and then something did come along and he was there for ages . ’ |
| 15 | Very very er able , capable man , but anyway , and he was in for years , but er beat him . |
| 16 | On most occasions when mass demonstrations took place there were clashes with the police and it was primarily for this reason that the Labour Party and the TUC tried to discourage such a form of protest . |
| 17 | It sustained her when the pain inside her became near-unbearable , and it was not for sharing . |
| 18 | He had banged his glass on the table and it was not for her to disobey . |
| 19 | And it was around for centuries before people managed to find a cure for it . |
| 20 | And it was n't for the others ' safety . |
| 21 | And it was n't for long , I must admit , that we had cows in that field but I think |
| 22 | I 've been to Germany and Austria skiing , I 've been to , er we went to Italy but I was , you know , I was quite a bit younger and it was n't for very long . |
| 23 | In only one respect were my original living arrangements altered , and it was all for the best . |
| 24 | And it was all for nothing . |
| 25 | His childhood exposure to life in the streets of a western town , still so new that most of the people who had founded it were still alive , had left him with no illusions about people or their motives , and it was always for the motive behind the question that he looked . |
| 26 | During his childhood , Holovich had been taught Russian by his mother and it was ostensibly for that reason that his company asked him to visit Moscow — a quite spurious reason because we supply most adequate and experienced interpreters for commercial negotiations with foreign concerns . |
| 27 | I mean that 's that 's one of his stock in trades he 's a superb volleyer of the ball and it was there for a second with a chance was there for a second . |
| 28 | But … but , as Mama said , as long as we kept it clean and it was only for a short time … |