Example sentences of "[was/were] [pers pn] [verb] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were you waiting for the school |
| 2 | How else were they to account for the martyrdom of Tel al-Za'atar , the huge Palestinian camp under siege in east Beirut ? |
| 3 | He came and went so quickly that she might not have known it was him save for the flash of his yellow cravat under the gas-lamp . |
| 4 | Was he going for a water ? |
| 5 | Bearing in mind the policy modifications imposed on the Urban Programme after 1979 , what kind of supportive environment was it providing for the cities by the mid-to-late 1980s ? |
| 6 | Whose idea was it to send for the Mamur Zapt anyway ? ’ |