Example sentences of "[noun] was [adj] [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The DEA was free to use it for any covert operation it wished , but if anything went wrong , Hurley could always say , ‘ Oh , you mean that Cypriot boat . ’ |
| 2 | Simon was supposed to take me for lunch an hour ago , ’ she said , hearing herself rattle on , yet unable to stop , ‘ but he seems to have forgotten and I 'm hungry and — ’ |
| 3 | The finished clothes were delivered to the hotel on her last morning in Paris only an hour before Bob Storrington was due to collect her for lunch . |
| 4 | ‘ The gaffer was ready to hammer us for that but after this result I asked , where are we going next Thursday — a nightclub ? |
| 5 | In its majority opinion the Court found that " the mere existence of a generalized political " motive to the coercion was inadequate to qualify someone for protection under the 1980 Act , and that the law required the persecution to be motivated by the opinions of the victim rather than by those of the persecutor . |