Sentence examples for were for something from inspiring English sources

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The proposals were for something a developer could make an income from, by selling apartments and shop space.

"After the sickening, cloying pop music of the late 50s, you can imagine how thirsty we were for something as beautiful as Doc Watson playing the banjo or Mississippi John Hurt singing a real blues song".

There is about her an aura of negligent grace that combines with a scent of mischief to leave an onlooker trembling, waiting, as it were, for something to happen"), and while he was in the White House he had struck up friendships with Charlton Heston and Kirk Douglas.

In writing these books I've tried to turn the epic back into the disaster as it was suffered without foreknowledge, without preparation, by people whose American expectations, though neither innocent nor delusional, were for something very different from what they got.

The victim has not been named by the media, but her family has spoken openly to the press about her life and their willingness to let her name be used if it were for something that benefitted the public, like new legislation to protect women.

"But my understanding is that Richie's own wishes were for something very, very quiet, and something very, very private".

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"We are for something.

"I would be for something better.

This is for something known as modulation.

But, mostly, I wish he'd be for something.

On Thursday, it was for something much more.

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