Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | while country areas were bracing themselves for the influx of tragic refugees or louse-infested slave labour , depending on the children 's luck . |
| 2 | While all you fairweather golfers were fattening yourselves for the spring sunshine , I was running 15 miles a week in an effort to gain the necessary fitness for a 27-tournament season . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought it would be best if Mr Challow were to help you for a bit , Miss Broome , ’ said Mervyn , ‘ while he 's getting settled down , that is . ’ |
| 4 | The repeated attacks of this last disease were to trouble him for the rest of his life . |
| 5 | In these pre-Cubist paintings of 1907 and 1908 it is as if Picasso were preparing himself for the difficulties involved in creating a new style by taking stock afresh of some of the basic problems inherent in all painting since the invention of illusionistic perspective . |
| 6 | The Smiths were priming themselves for a spell in the top five . |
| 7 | The city was bracing itself for a party to beat them all , but the Spaniards decided to re-write the script . |
| 8 | I had no idea she was using me for a purpose of her own : I was too naive to realise until it dawned on me what it was , a few weeks later . |
| 9 | The order was for the production of material relating to the purchase by a client , Mrs G , of certain real property , the allegation being that she was a member of the family of another person who was suspected of being a drug trafficker and who was using her for the purpose of laundering the proceeds of such trafficking . |
| 10 | He said that he believed he had lawful authority to ride the bike because he was repairing it for a friend . |
| 11 | She was left thinking how hard he was driving himself for the sake of his adoptive family . |
| 12 | Mrs Verity 's expenditure turned out to be far more than she guessed and their decisions were also affected because the bank was overcharging them for a time . |
| 13 | Owen knew from the title that this was a member of the Egyptian Royal Family but which of the Khedive 's numerous progeny it was escaped him for the moment . |
| 14 | Because i in , in theory presumably they s they should n't have been abusing their position , they should n't be gaining more because the whole point was to do it for the masses particularly , I mean if you were a Party cadre erm you should n't be getting more out of it than anybody else . |
| 15 | Meanwhile Dave had gone to pick up the boss from Stuttgart Airport as he was joining us for the weekend . |
| 16 | I mean you could say in this situation the stag was doing it for the benefit of the species but er you do n't need to er you do n't need to take that point of view . |
| 17 | I was doing it for the drive anyway . |
| 18 | That way , he would be left alone without worrying why no one was asking him for an autograph . |
| 19 | The old man was begging him for a dime to buy a cup of coffee . |
| 20 | As chance would have it we were going camping with another family whose father was to accompany me for a day 's climbing on Pillar . |
| 21 | There was a much-told tale of her Australian infancy that was held to be prophetic in this respect — about how at the age of three she had , by the sheer force of her will , compelled her uncle Walter ( who was taking her for a walk to the local shops at the time ) to put all the money he had on his person into a charity collecting-box in the shape of a plaster-of-Paris boy cripple ; as a result of which the uncle , too embarrassed to admit to this folly and borrow from his relatives , had run out of petrol on the way back to his sheep station . |
| 22 | The woman was taking him for a ride , working on him to get what she wanted , and that included Lissa 's destruction . |
| 23 | The only way he knew to heal the pain of his humiliation was to punish her for the crime of leaving him . |
| 24 | She had stayed there , always conscious that she was preparing herself for an existence of unutterable boredom , and was one of an enormous number of women who were training themselves for an ‘ if I do n't marry ’ life . |
| 25 | The German Commandant had dreamt of a mute Jewish whore and when he was issued one for the duration his cup overflowed . |
| 26 | He practically had me signed up for the European Monetary System when all I wanted was to touch him for a gold moidore . |
| 27 | He was raising it for a second hit when Nancy rushed forward and , seizing the piece of wood , threw it into the fire . |