Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [noun sg] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was my home for many months , so much so that when at last I was discharged , I was loath to leave . |
| 2 | Quite often a slave would change hands for an amphora of wine , so keen was their taste for strong beverages . |
| 3 | Tudorbury Securities agreed in principle to pay two ex-London & Norwich dealers £5,000 each up front to join them , such was their desire for hot-shot salesmen . |
| 4 | ‘ The High Priestess ’ was her home for 10 years . |
| 5 | By a notice of appeal dated 24 December 1991 the local authority appealed with leave of the judge on the grounds that ( 1 ) the judge had erred in law or misdirected himself as to the criteria to be applied to the decision whether leave should be granted in respect of an application by a former foster parent ; ( 2 ) the judge should have applied the test whether ( a ) there were quite exceptional circumstances disclosed necessitating the ousting of the local authority and the consequent discharge of the care order , and ( b ) there was a real likelihood that the applicant could persuade the court to adopt that course and ( c ) such a course was in the interests of the children ; ( 3 ) alternatively , if the judge had adopted the correct test , his exercise of his discretion had been plainly wrong in that he had failed to give any or sufficient weight to ( a ) the disturbing effects on the children of further investigation , ( b ) the fact that if residence orders were made the care order would be discharged , ( c ) the shared responsibility between the foster mother and the mother resulting from section 12(2) of the Act of 1989 , ( d ) the fact that the foster mother 's proper remedy was her application for judicial review , and ( e ) the wishes of the children and the mother . |
| 6 | Crilly would know ; he was her lover for three years , before he was mine . |
| 7 | My uncle Fred , whom we had stayed with as Viceroy of India , was a Fellow of All Souls , the only college without undergraduates , and was its Warden for two terms before he died in 1933 . |
| 8 | The new Hermitage director has worked there for nearly two years as assistant academic director under acting-director Vitaliy Suslov , but he has been connected with the museum almost all his life ; his father , Academician Boris Piotrovskiy ( 1908–90 ) , was on the staff at the Hermitage for more than half a century , and was its director for twenty-six years before his death en poste . |
| 9 | It was his year for skinned fingers , and climbing . |
| 10 | Charlie Francis said at the Canadian Enquiry that all the world 's top athletes were on drugs — that was his excuse for encouraging Ben to go on steroids . |
| 11 | ‘ The moment I got behind the wheel , he went on a binge , and he was in no shape to drive , so I was his chauffeur for three days , three days without sleep . |
| 12 | In 1940 he fell for an actor who was his lover for two years before joining the navy in 1942 . |
| 13 | Reine was our base for several days . |
| 14 | ‘ But Sarah — he was your boyfriend for two years ! |