Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In LONDON dealers were gearing up for a rush of prospective buyers . |
| 2 | These poor chaps were searching desperately for a project which would not be cursed with the ephemeral vulgarity of their usual tasks . |
| 3 | Two friends from the paras — one an ex-member of the Irish Rangers , the other a deserter from the French Foreign Legion — were saving up for a trip to South Africa where they intended to join the South African Army . |
| 4 | They were going out for a west end meal in the evening . |
| 5 | Her son and daughter who cared for her were going abroad for a fortnight 's holiday . |
| 6 | ‘ People were very friendly and we were invited in for a number of cups of tea during our stay , ’ PC Mardon said . |
| 7 | She and Hattie said they were coming around for a cup of tea . |
| 8 | All patients were followed up for a minimum of two years through the inflammatory bowel diseases clinic . |
| 9 | Out of the 25 patients discharged from the hospital 21 treated by endoscopy and two treated with surgery were followed up for a mean of 28.3 and 22.5 months , respectively . |
| 10 | In the same year Forbes described 22 patients with contraindications for surgery in which an endoprosthesis was placed , of these four ( 18% ) developed cholangitis , three had a repeat endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography with clearance of the ducts , and two died of unrelated causes , the remaining patients were followed up for a mean of 14 months with no complications ( 17 ) . |
| 11 | The other 43 patients underwent long term endoprosthesis placement and were followed up for a mean of 15.9 months ; six ( 15% ) developed cholangitis requiring surgery or endoscopic clearance of the ducts , there were no biliary related deaths . |
| 12 | Ten patients died of unrelated causes and the remaining 10 were followed up for a mean of 26 months with no biliary symptoms . |
| 13 | Eight patients of group 1 and seven patients of group 2 were followed up for a period of >3 years ( mean follow up 47 ( range 37–60 ) months for both groups ) . |
| 14 | The problem arose again thirty years later , when their energies were channelled off on a crusade which ended in defeat at Nicopolis in 1396 , and yet again in 1444–5 when , after the truce of Tours , the ‘ Ecorcheurs ’ who were , as their name implied , ‘ skinning ’ France , were led off for a while to Switzerland and the imperial lands . |
| 15 | Ten thousand people were taken up for a guinea a ride of a few moments . |
| 16 | We were taken off for a shower — which was welcome as I had n't washed properly since the night before I left London- and then shown our beds in the barrack rooms on the second and third floors . |
| 17 | The 20mm and 40mm quick-firing guns here were in or on concrete emplacements , and although the crew of the outer guns were knocked out for a time the Germans got this battery firing again , and the searchlight on the Mole 's tip was never put out . |
| 18 | Two North-East men were jailed recently for a number of crimes involving horse theft , including that of Mrs James ' animals . |
| 19 | A hall in the Andersonian University was procured , and meetings were held there for a number of years , with periods spent in Balfour 's School , North Portland Street ( 1848–1850 ) , the Young Men 's Christian Association , North Frederick Street ( 1857–8 ) . |
| 20 | And one of the reporters came out and er he asked me he 's heard that our decision was to go out for a strike you see . |
| 21 | ‘ All I did was come out for a walk before going to bed , and I was about by that place where the bank 's caved in , when somebody jumped me from behind . |
| 22 | But the full force of the poison was staved off for a while . |
| 23 | ‘ Sorry , yes , I was carried away for a moment there . |
| 24 | Observation was carried out for a total of nine weeks in the offices of four solicitors . |
| 25 | ONE WAR WAS WINDing down for a while , not ending , because they never end . |
| 26 | He was let out for a walk in the grounds of the medium-security Runwell hospital , near Wickford , Essex . |
| 27 | After a preliminary strategic session in London , fields were divided into four cognate groups and each was visited separately for a day on the basis of a volume of field proposals and a critical review . |
| 28 | The cavern was illuminated fully for a second . |
| 29 | It seems as though , when the need was felt again for a monument to adorn the last resting place of the rich and great , it was met by monumentalising the only existing art , that of painted pottery . |
| 30 | Up for re-election in 1952 , he was looking around for a cause that would be electorally popular , and found it in anti-communism . |