Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] was [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | it looks like he 's learnt from the Arse match where he was hauled back for 5 yards by Campbell before they scored their 2nd . |
| 2 | He must be made to realise that she was speaking up for Kirsty 's sake , that she was not motivated by personal spite . |
| 3 | On this occasion I had neither heard nor seen the tigress , nor had I received any indication from bird or beast of her presence , and yet I knew , without any shadow of doubt , that she was lying up for me among the rocks . |
| 4 | Clearly Helen has looked for ‘ explanations ’ to help her deal with such a painful experience , and the one she seems to have come up with is that she was picked on for the way she looks . |
| 5 | Three operations did not succeed in curing his glaucoma , and he had to give up his business in 1878 , although it was carried on for some years by his daughters , Eleanor , Elizabeth , and Catherine , as E. E. Dancer & Company . |
| 6 | Although ‘ Ave verum corpus ’ was evidently composed well before its publication in the first book of Gradualia ( 1605 ) , it barely circulated in manuscript ( there are only two handwritten sources ) , and there is no evidence to show that it was singled out for special attention in Catholic households . |
| 7 | The surpising thing is not that this is happening now , but rather that it was staved off for so long . |
| 8 | The Shah said that he was staying on for a while , not flying immediately either to the States back to Egypt . |
| 9 | He went back into the flat , grabbed his coat , told an astonished Frau Nordern that he was going out for a moment and , without waiting for any protests , dashed out and joined Bodo at the foot of the stairs . |
| 10 | It 's just that there are some things the mind-set is not adjusted to and I was tuned in for bracing winds , long place names and snatches of Tom Jones . |
| 11 | He took drugs , he said , ‘ because my parents had divorced and I was crying out for love . |
| 12 | It seems to me that this is something on which er not en passant but within the flow of his report Dr Stuart mentioned something of great importance and I was jotting down for myself , by way of aide memoire , membership , Madagascar , ministry of the whole people of God , three Ms as it were . |
| 13 | The first of the two meetings then was of the regional chairman of BAIE ( and I was standing in for ours in Scotland ) followed by a meeting of the Council of BAIE . |
| 14 | And she was going in for eggs or something , said well I usually leave them a day or two in the winter cos it does n't hurt and she said she struggled and struggled with that door ! |
| 15 | The long and the short of it is , her father owns the two shops — I suppose they 're joined at the back — and she was standing in for her father . |
| 16 | They had fetched him for Christmas and he was staying on for the New Year . |
| 17 | Evans said they should get Jack Nicholson for the role and he was invited in for a try-out . |
| 18 | Actually , before he moved away , he , he gave up his designing job and he was working in for a bit . |
| 19 | She 'll go up up the path and all I could see was this cat , and it was hanging on for dear life up this big tree and there |
| 20 | He 'd get very wild those times , like he was making up for something . |
| 21 | For a moment it was as if he was casting around for suitable names , and then suddenly he was looking past Alexei towards Jehan . |
| 22 | He cant be that bad cos he was called up for England last season if Im correct ? |
| 23 | Put it on low and leave it the night and day cos it was left on for a week once was n't it ? |
| 24 | The cops worked shifts , but I was booked in for the run . |
| 25 | The first time we went , Marie wore her bra and knickers , but she was told off for that , so she bought this real nice swimming costume . |
| 26 | He expected to be there for only three or four days , but he was kept in for a fortnight . |
| 27 | The Metropolitan Police have said that Courtney offered his services — but he was turned down for any work . |
| 28 | Er , that same prophet Isaiah , in the same chapter , he says surely , our griefs he himself bore , and our sorrows he carried , yet we ourselves esteemed him stricken , smitten of God and afflicted but he was pierced through for our transgressions , he was crushed for inequities , the chastening for our wellbeing fell upon him . |
| 29 | Erm , because I was going out for half past two and er , she rang , she says he has n't rung yet so I assume he 's going to be home . |
| 30 | Whilst he was laid up for six weeks in Middlesex Hospital , Minton visited him regularly and kept his family in Northumberland informed as to his progress . |