Example sentences of "[conj] he [was/were] [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Privately , Robbie considered he was over-reacting , that he was blaming her for his own inability to work today . |
| 2 | Instinct told her that he was planning something for her and it might not be to her liking . |
| 3 | you , er , it had happened because I had been , I had had a lot of training and a lot of swindles and thing , I was able to talked to him and I talked to him for an hour and a half er , I was curious for one thing to find out why he was , he , he was breaking into people 's houses , so that the fact that he was doing it for , to , to get money for drugs |
| 4 | He had no time for the cant of the priests about sin , but he knew , as he lay in the barracks hearing the grunts and panting of his companions , that he was honing himself for a superior form by refusing his body . |
| 5 | Pc Elsegood told Wing he was an off-duty policeman and he was arresting him for assault . |
| 6 | He gave her a long , slow look as if he was seeing her for the first time . |
| 7 | Before leaving he stood for a moment at the door and let his eyes range round the room as if he were seeing it for the first time . |
| 8 | There is a certain grudging margin , to be sure , about all that Mr Eliot writes — as if he were compensating himself for his limitations by a peevish assumption of superiority . |
| 9 | Francis Carco , who was a friend who had bought Modigliani 's work before the crowd , also bought Modigliani 's paintings , but he was given them for what he himself described as a ridiculously cheap price . |
| 10 | But he was doing it for his little girl , his Karen , and for her mother , his wife Ruthie . |
| 11 | He said that he believed he had lawful authority to ride the bike because he was repairing it for a friend . |
| 12 | The German Commandant had dreamt of a mute Jewish whore and when he was issued one for the duration his cup overflowed . |
| 13 | Meanwhile Dave had gone to pick up the boss from Stuttgart Airport as he was joining us for the weekend . |