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

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1 Most of the houses in the village were quite large , with shutters which were only opened for a few hours in the mornings ; if there was a breeze long lace curtains could be seen gently moving .
2 Erm , then we all just worked at getting pieces out on paper , all that was going fine , and then I assigned two more people to stick all the pieces together and trying to create sentences from it , and I think the only time that I , we lost it was like , right at the end we were like looking for a few words to make our sentences make sense .
3 As a result , the council having declined to give an undertaking , the interlocutory injunction was discharged ; and your Lordships were informed that the interlocutory injunctions granted in about 100 other cases were likewise discharged for the same reason .
4 Central Office tried to keep the local parties alive , for the party truce was only renewed for a few months at a time and parliament was prolonged beyond its five-year term only for a few months at a time too .
5 Unfortunately the cup was only awarded for a few years before that too disappeared .
6 Lepine was not cremated for a few days yet , until after the despatch of a couple of his victims also being tended to at the Côte-Des-Neiges cemetery , opposite the mountain , alongside the University of Montreal , where Marc Lepine joined his victims in the silence at the centre .
7 An office was opened in Nairobi in an attempt to sell advertising time to commercial companies operating from there , and a London representative was later appointed for the same purpose .
8 A ban on strike action which was also proposed for the same period , with heavy fines for offenders , had been dropped by the parliamentary labour committee when it became clear that it would receive no support , but fines for unofficial strikes were increased .
9 Beeney was well positioned for the few shots he had to take .
10 Local information suggests that it was occasionally worked for a few years after this , but by the 1950s had stopped completely .
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