Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [conj] [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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1 | All five teenagers were arrested and taken in for questioning . |
2 | Tickets were retained and handed over for juice and crisps when requested . |
3 | Tickets were retained and handed over for juice and crisps when requested . |
4 | Michael Winner , on whose original story Likely Lads TV writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais based their script , had discovered , while studying at Cambridge University , a legal loophole that meant that ‘ borrowing ’ bicycles from his college to get to the office of the student newspaper Varsity , which he edited , did not constitute theft , although he was gated and sent down for two weeks . |
5 | His wet , cold body was aching and calling out for a hot meal and warm bed . |
6 | Around 1900–1901 , the mill was closed and put up for sale , remaining unoccupied for some time . |
7 | After it was closed and put up for sale eighteen months ago they did their utmost to buy it and run it on a community basis . |
8 | He put a neck-lock on the youth he was holding and looked around for help . |