Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knowing what they were like for drink I tried to tell him but he would n't listen . |
| 2 | But if they were strange times for us , I can hardly imagine what they were like for my mother . |
| 3 | Cutting the that was for for the or the dairy cows . |
| 4 | It was it it it it was about for example |
| 5 | But they can be good at conveying what it was like for them to be there , and to be writing it down . |
| 6 | What Fussell is looking for are the records of the little people , to discover what the war was like for them . |
| 7 | But we knew what life was like for the children of Vietnam — and we were determined to see change . |
| 8 | That is what the campaign was like for John Major . |
| 9 | Of course she does n't know what my life was like for six years or so , although I may get round to telling her , in time . |
| 10 | He was probably grateful to drive something which did n't blow up every time the mechanics wanted lunch , which is what life was like for Patrese at Alfa Romeo back in the mid-Eighties . |
| 11 | How could he , Theo , have forgotten what it was like for him in Amsterdam ? |
| 12 | The split decision , arrived at after almost two hours deliberation by the panel , reflected the complexity of the two-day hearing during which shocking allegations were made about what life was like for residents in the Colchester hospital . |
| 13 | I just tried to write what it was like for me in Toronto , growing up and hanging out , the suburban adolescent heavy metal North American experience . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't even want to think about what it was like for those 52 hours when Farrah was missing . |
| 15 | So I 'm gon na ask both of you for a word specially in a moment to describe what it was like for that girl in the jungle . |
| 16 | Well tell me what it was like for you , from your point of view , erm , erm coming to a New Town with a teenage son because most of the couples who came either did n't have any children or were just about to have baby |
| 17 | ‘ Do you have any idea of what is was like for me , trying to sleep in a bed still warm from your body and scented with that soap and powder you use ? ’ |
| 18 | You young people have no idea what it was like for people in Europe then to be offered a cigarette or a piece of chocolate or something like real coffee . |
| 19 | If you think it was hard for me , think what it was like for Gary , the sound technician , who had to sit out front in a box , wired up and WATCH the whole thing seven times a week and twice on Saturdays . |
| 20 | It is difficult to define accurately what it was like for , although it still exists , it has been damaged , altered and restored so the original design has been obscured . |
| 21 | We find out what life was like for army wives in the past and how a modern woman copes with the worries of serving in Northern Ireland . |
| 22 | Well , if death can ever be glamorous , that , I suppose , is the glamorous side of war casualties , but I think we need to spend the rest of our time very much looking at what it was like for the ordinary people of St Aldate's. erm And here , I apologise for producing a modern slide of Carfax , but I think just to remind you that we are talking about a very busy crowded city area , and erm about a city whose whole aspect was changing during the war . |
| 23 | That was like for her ticket as well . |
| 24 | Vecchi was in for keeps now . |
| 25 | But I was gon na tell you about there was one day I was at for money and I 'm coming up the road , and here this chap was standing in the road and er kind of thumbing a lift , so I says to him , I stopped and I often lift people in the road but er after he got into the , I had an old Bradford van at the time , and he said er , I said to him , I says , are you on a hiking holiday ? |