Example sentences of "was [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | On the days he was going to see her , he woke up feeling that anything was possible , that the world was his for the asking . |
3 | By then , at the end of the century , the Secretary 's power was his for the taking . |
4 | But the more she thought about his arrogant assumptions , his conceited certainty that she was his for the taking , the more she bristled with indignation … |
5 | Even if she never saw him again , even if he married Dana , she was his for the rest of her life . |
6 | It had to be admitted that there was plenty for the voters to be disgruntled about . |
7 | In time , the ever-increasing number of visitors had opened up an entirely new source of income for the Heymouthians , and instead of having to depend on fishing as their primary source of income , they found the tourist trade was theirs for the developing . |
8 | Richter 's story was unearthed by Mario Mariscotti who wrote a book in Spanish called The Secret of Huemmel Island in which he tells how Argentina , during the Peronist regime , had mistakenly thought that fusion was its for the asking . |
9 | And then Lisabeth came to see what the noise was and he must have thought she was you for a minute — we had the curtains drawn , you see . |
10 | There was an element of fitness training in the Scots ' routines , but there was none for the Fijians . |
11 | It appeared that Princess Anne was not one of her admirers , and though Princess Anne 's views were at this time usually rather criticised this was something for the press to get its teeth into . |
12 | Always worrying you if there was something for the least . |
13 | and there was a lot of waste , but these new tables did bring that , it was something for the company it was more than anything , you know cos we were on the bonus system . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | There was one for every play of the cycle — one for The Garden of Eden , one for The murder of Abel , one for The Sacrifice of Isaac , one for The destruction of the World … |
17 | Implicitly , the programme was one for the reform of the existing empire rather than its overthrow . |
18 | The fighting season 1346–7 was one for the English to remember . |
19 | That was one for the book . |
20 | This was one for the book . |
21 | The adjustment factor was one for the under 65 group and three for the over 65 group . |
22 | They did not act since the case was one for the Russian authorities alone . |
23 | Well , that was one for the album : the ex-FAKINTIL sapper together with the malai Colonel 's wife , half-naked in her boudoir . |
24 | And anyway , what was there for a girl like her ? |
25 | was there for the right moment and the right man . |
26 | So troubled was he for a girl who , after all , was of age , high-spirited and clever , that after she had gone , and Matey had answered reflectively when he had asked her if she knew where McAllister was going , ‘ I do n't know . |
27 | The excitement of delving into the unknown was mine for the first time that day . |
28 | Whose turn was it for a facilities trip ? |
29 | Was it for a charity ? |
30 | Was it for the cash ? |