Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , it was with the help of Phil Andrews , who was No.1 on Venturous at that time , with Bob Wellock , an ex air/sea RAF coxswain from Liverpool Customs in command whom I was meeting for the first time . |
| 2 | For example , it included costs which ought more properly to have been included in their bill relating to the divorce proceedings , in which they were acting for the father . |
| 3 | Precisely what they would do to justify their share of the precious filtered air in the bunker is unclear , although only marginally less so than the process by which they were chosen for the job in the first place . |
| 4 | Sir John Wolfenden , the then vice-chancellor of Reading University , was chosen to be its Chairman , a job which he was to hold for the three years that the Committee took to produce its Report . |
| 5 | Philip of France had sent a force of Brabançons to help his brother-in-law , the opening shot in a campaign which he was to wage for the next thirty years . |
| 6 | It is perhaps not by chance that the first Greek book to speak extensively about the Jews was written by an adviser of Ptolemy I in the years in which he was campaigning for the conquest of Palestine . |
| 7 | He directed the Orchard Gallery in Derry , ( 1978–84 ) for which he was nominated for the Turner prize . |
| 8 | Do not grieve the Holy Spirit with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption . |
| 9 | When I got outside I found Mum in the yard , waving her arms about and giving directions to the neighbours whom she was organising for the party . |
| 10 | I told them you were made for the part . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ She 'll have told you we were coming for the boat . |
| 12 | ‘ Perhaps it is saying something when I tell you he was aiming for the optician 's and ended up in the carpet shop , ’ he said . |
| 13 | I knew then that what I was telling him he was hearing for the first time . |
| 14 | I told him he was looking for the mother he 'd never had , but of course he would n't listen . |
| 15 | I first started to write at school and I 'd charge a few pence for each story — you should have seen what I was writing for the girls . |
| 16 | I ca n't recall what I was paid for the film . |