Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [was/were] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ferry traffic was halted for a week in December because of fears that refugees might hijack the vessel to the United States . |
| 2 | Ferdinand believed Godoy was scheming for a regency to exclude him from the throne ; Godoy knew that Ferdinand was intriguing against him with the French ambassador . |
| 3 | those seeking work were looking for the same kinds of jobs as those that had found it ; |
| 4 | Owners ' shares slumped 9p to 138p , some 11p short of the 15-for-34 bid terms with Airtours , down just 1p to 338p , suggesting dealers were preparing for the failure of the offer . |
| 5 | Like Abed before him , I reckoned Mazzin was hoping for a violent response in order to have an excuse to beat us up . |
| 6 | A study by Peters ( 1988 ) showed a similar result comparing subjects ’ memories for a nurse giving them an inoculation with that for a researcher subsequently encountered , they found that face recognition was impaired for the nurse , another result suggesting memory impairment for an arousing event . |
| 7 | Travel expenses were paid for a maximum of three months . |
| 8 | Quincx Roirbak was preparing for an evening out when his receptionist summoned him . |
| 9 | A collection totalling £375 was taken for the work of Christian Aid and CAFOD , and refreshments were served afterwards in the new parish hall . |
| 10 | At one point in the late seventeenth century three badly damaged volumes were purchased for the school , Rider 's Dictionary , Perottus upon Martial , and Erasmi Adagia . |
| 11 | In 1853 his whole collected works were published for the first time with an introduction in which the editor , George Offor , hailed them as a weapon in the struggle against ‘ the mighty efforts ’ which were then being made ‘ to enthral the country in the Satanic yoke of popery or its dark ill-shapen brother Puseyism ’ . |
| 12 | Red Rum and Desert Orchid were meeting for the first time . |
| 13 | Gray began singing for Baldwin after her cousin — an avid Chicago house devotee who would occasionally drag Paris out to the city 's hottest clubs — heard Baldwin was looking for a singer and gave him Gray 's number . |
| 14 | Do n't Sing was the first single to chart , though it was n't until When Love Breaks Down was released for the second time in 1985 that things really started to happen . |
| 15 | EXCLUDED PARTS AND COMPONENTS — Previously plant definitions were used for the three main classes i.e. boiler , crane and electrical . |
| 16 | Their social characteristics , the type of crime of which they were accused and the district in which the crime took place were recorded for the period 1896 — 1905 ( Appendix A ) . |
| 17 | Pilot X was cruising for a bruising in many respects in Worst Day 9 . |
| 18 | A similar but more complicated arrangement of alternatively spliced exons was reported for the Drosophila muscle MHC ( 15 ) , which showed that multiple isoforms could exist with only small differences in apparent molecular weight . |
| 19 | Mrs Vowden said Leena was going for a bike ride when the accident happened at 6.10 pm on Wednesday at the junction of Edinburgh Road and Hamilton Road , Newmarket . |
| 20 | Smooth-talking Pat O'Rourke said companies were clamouring for the rights to screen the yarn , Lifeboys . |
| 21 | ( For computational reasons scaling factors were used for the Marshall and Bayes formulae to avoid underflow ) . |
| 22 | Officers and volunteer NCOs were trained at the centre for six weeks before joining the Independent Companies in which volunteer soldiers were trained for a further six weeks by their own officers . |
| 23 | He 'd been brought up on a farm and had a way with horses , and his first job when he left school was working for a brewery breaking in the big black cobs they brought over wild from Ireland and put to use as cart-horses dragging the great heavy drays full of ale . |
| 24 | Crayke Castle was built for the Bishop of Durham in 1430 . |
| 25 | Fasting serum was collected for the determination of 7α-hydroxy-4-cholesten-3-one , and on the same day the γ emitting bile acid analogue SeHCAT was given orally and its fractional catabolic rate assessed by repeated external counting over the upper abdomen during the next seven days . |
| 26 | A coroner has called for road improvements after an inquest heard that flood water was to blame for the death of a motorist . |