Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.

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1 And no nasty dream was going to spoil it for her .
2 Like PEPS everywhere , this was slow to catch on , especially as dealers were forced to sell it for days at a time without getting paid commission for it , so most did n't bother .
3 Sometime around the middle of the week , Dr MacLennan was allowed to see me for a while , after Diggs overruled my father 's refusal to have me medically inspected by anybody else but him .
4 Epstein concluded that management of stress among the experienced parachutists was not due to their repeated exposure to jumping in the manner of a conditioned response , but was a consequence of an active coping process that on each occasion was used to prepare them for the coming jump .
5 An obstacle to Buchan 's transfer was that he would lose income from his Sunderland shop , and the deal was delayed for two months while ‘ under-the-counter ’ terms were agreed to compensate him for this loss .
6 ‘ If your mother was half as beautiful as you , and perhaps half as persuasive , I can understand how your father was tempted to abandon everything for her pleasure , ’ he said throatily .
7 The judgment effectively absolved it of criminal and civil liability for causing approximately 3,500 deaths and injuries to thousands , and the final settlement was only a percentage of the orginial sum of $3.5 billion that the government was going to sue them for .
8 ‘ What was he doing there , anyway ? ’ 'Raoul was trying to tap him for money . ’
9 The responsibility was going to haunt him for years to come .
10 The story I 've got is that he was forced out because Ron Barron was threatening to prosecute him for fraud . ’
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