Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] [pron] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time , the Daily Mail was reporting his conviction for armed robbery . |
| 2 | Moscow 's main response to such attempts to apply reverse influence was to intensify its search for access elsewhere , especially in Syria . |
| 3 | He believed an , as yet unidentifiable , soccer manager was using my house for adulterous purposes with a young female on his staff . |
| 4 | Agnes sipped her drink assuming that Magill was watching her face for signs of disappointment . |
| 5 | The C-in-C was sending his car for her , and when it arrived , I saw her to the quay . |
| 6 | Milan can be circumspect about visiting conductors , but on this occasion even the orchestra was stamping its approval for Lorin Maazel , a phenomenon I was told the Scala had not witnessed for over two decades ( you would have thought they might have managed it in the recent past for Muti , watching with no evident rancour from the box : but apparently not ) . |
| 7 | In 1786 , when Robert Burns was preparing his poetry for publication for the first time , he took his manuscript to Glenconner and read his poems to the Tennant family for their approval or otherwise . |
| 8 | Sylvia was pestering her mother for a story one morning after breakfast . |
| 9 | Edward agreed to renounce his claim to the French crown , while John was to abandon his demand for sovereignty over the lands ceded to the English . |
| 10 | The troops had tears in their eyes as Des was awarded his medal for pet of the year . |