Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE BBC was bracing itself yesterday for a Government onslaught over its election coverage , which many ministers believe was biased against the Conservatives . |
| 2 | He was not using it to further his own human development , he was using it up for the profit of the people who paid him , the anonymous shareholders and their abstract interests . |
| 3 | ‘ Then I shall get a train in the opposite direction , ’ he said , thinking that there was something sad about it , especially now that she was thanking him politely for the drinks . |
| 4 | He was saving it up for a rainy day . |
| 5 | Erm so he ju he was taking it over for a couple of weeks . |
| 6 | And he he caught her the other day , she was putting them out for the birds , she do n't like them but she said . |
| 7 | It sounded as if Irina was setting herself up for the planned return to Moscow , ahead of the Brückner lawyers . |
| 8 | No doubt this ‘ concession ’ was to soften him up for the next examination . |
| 9 | All I did was turn me back for a minute and it was . |