Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I was getting you back for one ! |
| 2 | We have been starved of second-hand cars because nobody was trading them in for new ones , but this should change that . ’ |
| 3 | The boss said you were to take her out for as long as you wanted , sir . |
| 4 | Er I thought you did well in erm giving yourself credibility by talking about the shares , oh yes you can have two hundred and fifty pounds per month in the shares and they 've done well and I said oh yes they have done well , and I felt good that you were praising me up for being such a clever chap , and so I thought that was all , all jolly good stuff . |
| 5 | It felt too much as if she was shunting him off for her own convenience , even though she knew that it was the only sane and sensible thing to do . |
| 6 | And he he caught her the other day , she was putting them out for the birds , she do n't like them but she said . |
| 7 | ‘ They were taking us out for meals . |
| 8 | She was n't quite sure what he was summing her up for but he was certainly doing that . |
| 9 | He was not using it to further his own human development , he was using it up for the profit of the people who paid him , the anonymous shareholders and their abstract interests . |
| 10 | He was saving it up for a rainy day . |
| 11 | Erm so he ju he was taking it over for a couple of weeks . |