Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 ‘ 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 .
3 He was saving it up for a rainy day .
4 Erm so he ju he was taking it over for a couple of weeks .
5 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 .
6 No doubt this ‘ concession ’ was to soften him up for the next examination .
7 All I did was turn me back for a minute and it was .
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