Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] for [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is particularly interesting , however , to discover that a small group of white collar workers at Rolls Royce did not want an intellectually taxing job and provisions were made for them in the final design . |
| 2 | Actual guides were waiting for them on the Scots side , from the Graham tower , producing a grim smile from Douglas , for one of his principal headaches as Keeper of Liddesdale was apt to be the inroads and cross-border raiding of these same Grahams , Kirkandrews prominent . |
| 3 | Various local councillors and moral guardians were waiting for them at the venue , having read local press reports that the Fabs ' travelling show included a rather racy striptease revue . |
| 4 | Oliver and Tim were waiting for them at the gangway . |
| 5 | They were waiting for them inside the restaurant , which turned out to be a smallish place that somehow managed to achieve an atmosphere of casualness and intimacy at the same time . |
| 6 | He had left and walked back to the hotel , and by the time he reached it the police were waiting for him in the lobby . |
| 7 | Ranulf and Dame Agatha were waiting for him near the Galilee Gate , the young nun apparently enjoying an account of one of his manservant 's many escapades in London . |
| 8 | It was partly because he got a weird buzz out of scaring himself half to death , and partly because he felt it was a kind of exorcism , to convince him he had control over his fears — and the horrors that were waiting for him round the corner of sleep . |
| 9 | they were waiting for her in the old house : Louise , her mother , her aunt Bella and her grandmother , Irena . |
| 10 | The rest of the party were waiting for us in a courtyard full of yapping dogs ; long , lean greyhounds , black , white and brindled . |
| 11 | In City Fur Manufacturing Co. v. Fureenbond ( 1937 K.B. ) A owned some skins which were stored for him at an independent warehouse . |
| 12 | The loud calls for the author , by a curious irony , were taken for him by the U.S. ambassador . |
| 13 | He passed them on to another colleague who led us finally to our places which were kept for us in the Grand Salon . |
| 14 | And all the other farmers were paying the guys who were working for them on the side , ten pound a day , for working from nine o'clock in the morning till about five at night . |
| 15 | Or rather , their memoirs were launched for them at a glib and glitzy party by Heinemann , the publishers . |
| 16 | TVH , as it is generally known , was typified for me by a man called Alf Mignot , who died in 1987 in his early sixties . |
| 17 | Much of McQueen 's acting was done for him by the make-up of Charles Schram , who effectively ages him over his years of solitary confinement . |
| 18 | Little was done for him in the three years up to his seventeenth birthday when , like so many others , he found companionship and , ironically , the security he craved for by joining the army . |
| 19 | Ankhu and Nebamun would have it easier , but for the majority of privileged men work was a nominal activity as they laboured more or less intelligently in the upper ranks of the army , the civil service and the priesthood ; most of the graft was done for them at a humbler level . |
| 20 | While Famlio was looking for us near the Fraxilly sector , we 'd be elsewhere . |
| 21 | They was looking for it on a list . |
| 22 | That question was decided for her in a most terrible way . |
| 23 | Donal was married on August 29 and shortly afterwards an appointment was made for him at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London . |
| 24 | Secondly , the hon. Gentleman asked for a change of policy that would ensure that , before people were discharged from long-stay hospitals , proper provision was made for them in the community . |
| 25 | Little did I imagine that such a move was destined for me within the next two years . |
| 26 | The fourth matter upon which the appellants rely , and this is a matter of considerable importance , is that they claim to have been misled by the solicitor who was acting for them during the course of 1991 and particularly in respect of these committal proceedings . |
| 27 | What they witnessed , and what was recreated for us by the Ulster Youth Dance Company in Stranmillis College Theatre at the weekend was a spectacle far more disturbing and revolutionary . |
| 28 | The door was opened for him by a secretary who sat alone in a corner . |
| 29 | The gardener was waiting for them at the front door . |
| 30 | For an hour the guests sat patiently listening ; then everybody got up and , with the air of people who have been thinking of little else for some time , demolished the langoor ( free food ) which was waiting for them at the rear of the house . |