Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 There was always a long wait for an appointment , sometimes up to a month , and women were only kept in for 24 hours if it was a normal birth .
2 Where inmates were once locked up for 23 hours everyday a more liberal attitude now prevails .
3 These rabbits were probably fattened up for some special occasion .
4 were n't buggered up for all the characters .
5 Over 75% of respondents to the survey said that distribution and hotline services were good ( Tiptree and Penguin were consistently singled out for special praise ) , and that wholesalers were outstandingly efficient .
6 Talybont were then sent back for 109 , Wheeler hitting 33 not out and Simon Lloyd Williams 31 .
7 Haynes was eventually run out for 62 and left the field in tears thinking he had lost his team the match , but by then only three more were needed and Roberts was striking the ball well .
8 After US obstruction , a Committee of the Board of Governors of the IMF was eventually set up for this purpose late in 1972 .
9 Although stool collection in their study was only carried out for 24–48 hours , it was done at home .
10 India was largely cut off for long periods , and its under-developed arms and textile industries were required to supply substantial quantities of ammunition and tents to British forces in the Middle and Far East .
11 Columbus was not cut out for this sort of work .
12 Railway stock sent from Black Sea ports to another area , the Middle Volga , was not sent back for more grain , but for the most part ended up in Siberia .
13 Their lands , which had been seized by the crown in 1308 , by papal decree should have been transferred in 1312 to the Order of the Hospitallers , but in England this transfer was not carried out for some years , during which the king continued to profit from the estates .
14 Helen ( 20 ) was yesterday locked up for seven days for what the judge described as a ‘ nasty campaign of noise and harassment ’ .
15 The former England midfielder underwent surgery to remove a blood clot on Monday and was promptly ruled out for ten days .
16 And you think that you 're lucky to be alive in that respect , but I 've never really thought that I was specially picked out for some reason to carry on living .
17 Stoke actually hit the back of the net in the 59th minute , but Kevin Russell was controversially pulled up for off-side .
18 That set the fur flying and even United coach Geoff Konopka was also sent off for serious misconduct .
19 I was nearly chucked out for that , I left before they could chuck me out , actually .
20 Mr McKeag ( later Dr McKeag ) had been immensely popular on the Circuit and was often invited back for special services .
21 ‘ I was really pumped up for this one , I was even doing chin-ups on my bed last night .
22 He realized that he ‘ was n't cut out for academic work ’ .
23 She just was n't cut out for this sort of thing !
24 that that green was n't put on for that competition .
25 ‘ I told you not to ask , ’ he said when the line was grudgingly given over for another fifty seconds .
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