Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | My charge was supplying cocaine and I was given two years for that and one year each concurrent for possession of small amounts of cannabis , cannabis resin , amphetamines and LSD . |
| 2 | I did n't know it then but I was receiving subliminal training for later business life . |
| 3 | With my own two children , I felt cheerful and reasonably well during the first pregnancy ; the bonding process with the baby was immediate and passionate , but nine months later I was seeking medical help for exhaustion . |
| 4 | I 've got caught in the post office once or twice on pension day when I was buying more stamps for my fruitless job applications . ’ |
| 5 | Frankly , dear readers , I was getting bored waiting for the graphs to get to the point of maximum excitement . |
| 6 | In fact , when I joined the party in 1967 , I was charged six shillings for my annual subscription . |
| 7 | That did n't stop me , man — I was playing that thing for two years . ’ |
| 8 | I was paid good money for 3½ years to do something about the problems of North Shields and a particular component of doing something was describing what things were like , giving an account of how they had come to be like this , and attempting to understand why the process had happened as it had . |
| 9 | I was waiting one night for a bus from South Kensington to Fulham when two of them , who obviously had had one or two over the eight came towards me . |
| 10 | She reached for one of the freshly laundered robes which were supplied each day for users of the pool . |
| 11 | A theory of ducal sovereignty was in effect to be formulated between 1294 and 1300 , which was to set important precedents for other peers and magnates of France to follow . |
| 12 | The emperor 's death in its turn alienated his supporters , most notably the Gallo-Roman Aegidius , who began an independent career in Soissons , in the north of Gaul , which was to hold some significance for the early history of the Franks . |
| 13 | Out of this difficulty , according to astronomer John Macvey , was born the celebrated ‘ other star ’ theory , which was to dominate astronomical thinking for about four decades . |
| 14 | A Dutch delegate described the US plan as an improvement on its earlier position , which was to reject all calls for action until science proved that global warming was a certainty . |
| 15 | The LCAC advice was produced in April , the effect of which was to reject any extension for rights of audience for the CPS and other employed lawyers and the Advisory Committee concluded that the Law Society 's application was inadequate in certain respects . |
| 16 | He accompanied King James on the visit which he made to Scotland to impose episcopacy , and in his sermons there supported him in this venture , which was to have calamitous results for the monarchy in the next reign . |
| 17 | It was a settlement which was to have significant ramifications for British politics , as we shall see later when we come to consider the issue of Jacobitism . |
| 18 | But however welcome , such generosity did not help solve the central problem which was to find suitable homes for the children . |
| 19 | Early postoperative complications were negligible , while three patients who were circumcised required reoperation for haemorrhage . |
| 20 | A board beside it bore a specification of the car and an outline of the services offered by Hazards Limited , who were sponsoring this prize for the first player to ace the hole . |
| 21 | Throughout the dark years , some of the artists and intellectuals , who were given manual jobs for producing unacceptable works of art , met in The Slavia . |
| 22 | In South Africa he came to the conclusion that the Boer War had been fought for the benefit of Jewish gold and diamond financiers , who were exploiting British imperialism for their own international purposes . |
| 23 | Given some of the appalling crud that gets sent to rss ( cf Denise ) , I could n't believe you were getting serious grief for it . |
| 24 | Well la , last year , when you were doing that painting for er , Derek . |
| 25 | She was elected Labour MP for Sunderland in 1929 , but , like many other women parliamentarians of the period , found it hard to break in to the House of Commons debates . |
| 26 | Stephen Pinsent , a former weightlifting champion who was jailed last month for supplying anabolic steroids , had his three-month sentence reduced to 28 days by the Court of Appeal yesterday . |
| 27 | Police warned against approaching Richard Sean Hyland , 26 , from Kentish Town , London , who was serving four years for armed robbery . |
| 28 | May I draw to the attention of the Secretary of State the case of a Wakefield man who was refused expensive injections for infertility by a fund-holding GP and told to apply for that treatment to a non fund-holding practice in Wakefield ? |
| 29 | If we were to present separate maps for unemployment by sex , the map for females would show southern Italy in a worse light , but female unemployment data are particularly prone to non-comparability because of wider differences between countries in the definitions used . |
| 30 | We were working that month for the Queen 's Men at the theatre called The Curtain up in Shoreditch . |