Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] for [pers pn] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the lack of time , he was as good as his word , and we got a phone call from Colin Dobson , second in command of permanent way work , and arrangements were made for us to contact the signalman at Llangollen , since Colin would be away on business . |
| 2 | What I did was to wait for him to unbolt the door , which opens outwards . |
| 3 | To write a feature story on the Inaugural First Flight it was arranged for me to join the westbound plane at Moose Jaw and telegraph back the story from Calgary . |
| 4 | As far as I know , there are only two still in existence : one , the U.505 , was captured by an American task force towards the end of the war , towed up the St Lawrence and through the Great Lakes to Chicago where a special cradle was built for it to cross the Lake Shore Drive and then set up in a little house of its own in the Museum of Science and Industry . |
| 5 | When they returned , they discovered that the main body of men had already flown out and that a party of drivers under Scratchley was waiting for them to join the vehicle convoy south through the Great Sand Sea . |
| 6 | He was waiting for her to open the conversation , but his manner was so cold and distant that she found it difficult to begin . |