Example sentences of "[pron] were [verb] for the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three doctors are before the committee charged with professional misconduct for their alleged involvement in removing kidneys from four Turks who were paid for the organs . |
| 2 | Three doctors are before the committee charged with professional misconduct for their alleged involvement in removing kidneys from four Turks who were paid for the organs . |
| 3 | Well , if you were looking for the qualities Elinor had displayed in their years together , you could probably only have done better by marrying a man-eating tiger . |
| 4 | But you would have to be awfully sure that you were destined for the gallows to put to sea in a small boat during a storm . |
| 5 | It was possible we were headed for the marshes . |
| 6 | If one were looking for the reasons for the present situation , does my right hon. Friend agree that it has been the departure of the building societies and other lenders from the traditional concept of not lending more than 75 per cent . |
| 7 | He not only attacks the SEC for being politically grounded , suggesting that the SEC 's limited resources are being focused on those least in favour with the enforcement agency , but by adopting the Stigler ‘ interest theory ’ of regulation , he argues that if one were to look for the supporters of anti-insider dealing provisions , one would find that it is neither society nor the markets , but the SEC itself . |
| 8 | Despite having a fair share of the play throughout , Braintree never really made any real impression and what chances there were came for the visitors . |
| 9 | The boys were eventually picked up by a small boat and were taken by ambulance to Nobles Hospital in Douglas where they were treated for the effects of cold . |
| 10 | They were looking for the principles of organisation , how it is that we organise things like dots into a meaningful whole Why is it that we tend to see two lines crossing in the middle rather one two than two V's ? |
| 11 | Under Biset 's orders they were to search for the evildoers and those who harboured them , and do whatever was necessary to maintain the king 's peace in those parts . |
| 12 | The two girls looked at each other , as if they were searching for the similarities . |
| 13 | yeah but he do n't get done , he does n't get done , that is the problem , the kids do n't , I 've written a letter to Mr yesterday , why they were waiting for the games teacher he was hitting Geoffrey and he gave him a dead leg , kneeing him in the leg , he said before drama , he 's got drama tomorrow he says he hates drama because the teacher takes no notice , he said one week Stuart was hitting me with a stick and the teacher just said calm down you boys , and he was being hit with a stick oh no and this I find totally disgusting and I feel like complaining about this , one of the teachers and I do n't know whether its drama yeah I think it was drama and |
| 14 | While they were waiting for the targets to be set up , Burun took Rostov aside . |
| 15 | Six seconds of fame after hours of queueing for this fan of a fan THE Lamports had queued for four hours before they were interviewed for the Antiques . |
| 16 | No one would object if they were paying for the facilities themselves . |
| 17 | Do n't ask me to pluck figures out of the air , but it was a reasonable rent , and they were paying for the rates , and their electricity , and their water supply , and their sewage disposal , on permanent sites . |
| 18 | It was n't as if they were heading for the hills . |
| 19 | Dr Crockett , Mr Michael Bewick , a leading kidney transplant surgeon , and Mr Michael Joyce , a urologist at Guy 's Hospital , deny professional misconduct over their involvement in transplanting kidneys from four living Turks , all of whom were paid for the organs . |
| 20 | But what has been said so far , that the flipping and the circumstance including it were required for the wipers ' starting to work , is consistent with the cause existing without that effect . |
| 21 | Each month lots were drawn for the names of the next families to leave , and the fortunate ones were given only a short time to make their final preparations . |