Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] was [vb pp] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The surpising thing is not that this is happening now , but rather that it was staved off for so long . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Evans said they should get Jack Nicholson for the role and he was invited in for a try-out . |
| 8 | He cant be that bad cos he was called up for England last season if Im correct ? |
| 9 | Put it on low and leave it the night and day cos it was left on for a week once was n't it ? |
| 10 | The cops worked shifts , but I was booked in for the run . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He expected to be there for only three or four days , but he was kept in for a fortnight . |
| 13 | The Metropolitan Police have said that Courtney offered his services — but he was turned down for any work . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The water leak was discovered in Kozloduy 's sixth reactor after it was shut down for repairs and modifications [ see ED 56 ] . |
| 17 | THE FA have suspended Middlesbrough full back Jimmy Phillips for three matches after he was sent off for violent conduct in an off-the-ball incident against Southend last Saturday . |
| 18 | I liked to find my own stories — and I was just beginning to place the best of them in national papers when I was whisked off for two years ' National Service . |
| 19 | On another occasion when I was holed up for two days in a tiny cottage in Snowdonia while it poured with rain , an ordnance survey map , my first hand knowledge of the area and an illustrated catalogue of Turner 's work allowed me to prepare for locating the sites where he worked . |
| 20 | In week 4 she was in bed by 8pm every night except one , when she was allowed up for a special event . |
| 21 | And when I When it was opened out for me going to Deerness , well that was a great event . |
| 22 | It had been owned by the Turner family , and my aunt 's builder husband had bought it from them and was turning it into an apartment house when he was called up for service with the Army . |
| 23 | MIDFIELDER Jamie Redknapp today received some compensation for Liverpool 's early exit from Europe when he was called up for England 's Under-21 international against Turkey at Brisbane Road on November 17 . |
| 24 | When Bud moved south to West Bromwich Albion in 1976 , he found himself in a deep trouble after a game against Brighton , when he was sent off for the unpardonable offence of kicking a referee . |
| 25 | He took on a starring role in the Plough Lane Crazy Gang production and gained more notoriety when he was sent off for elbowing a village postman in a pre-season friendly on the Isle of Wight . |
| 26 | It came as no surprise when he was sent off for a vicious headbutt to the hapless Hudd . |
| 27 | He made an unfortunate slip when he was wheeled out for Thursday 's law and order policy launch — conceding that Labour could win . |
| 28 | Brazil 's Free Zone of Manaus ( ZFM ) provides a good illustration of the difficulties of adjustment , even though it was set up for quite different purposes . |
| 29 | Friends on the ground watched in horror as he was towed along for 20 seconds before managing to pull an emergency handle to free himself from the snagged chute . |