Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] for [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is particularly interesting , however , to discover that a small group of white collar workers at Rolls Royce did not want an intellectually taxing job and provisions were made for them in the final design . |
| 2 | In City Fur Manufacturing Co. v. Fureenbond ( 1937 K.B. ) A owned some skins which were stored for him at an independent warehouse . |
| 3 | The loud calls for the author , by a curious irony , were taken for him by the U.S. ambassador . |
| 4 | He passed them on to another colleague who led us finally to our places which were kept for us in the Grand Salon . |
| 5 | Or rather , their memoirs were launched for them at a glib and glitzy party by Heinemann , the publishers . |
| 6 | TVH , as it is generally known , was typified for me by a man called Alf Mignot , who died in 1987 in his early sixties . |
| 7 | Much of McQueen 's acting was done for him by the make-up of Charles Schram , who effectively ages him over his years of solitary confinement . |
| 8 | Little was done for him in the three years up to his seventeenth birthday when , like so many others , he found companionship and , ironically , the security he craved for by joining the army . |
| 9 | Ankhu and Nebamun would have it easier , but for the majority of privileged men work was a nominal activity as they laboured more or less intelligently in the upper ranks of the army , the civil service and the priesthood ; most of the graft was done for them at a humbler level . |
| 10 | That question was decided for her in a most terrible way . |
| 11 | Donal was married on August 29 and shortly afterwards an appointment was made for him at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London . |
| 12 | Secondly , the hon. Gentleman asked for a change of policy that would ensure that , before people were discharged from long-stay hospitals , proper provision was made for them in the community . |
| 13 | Little did I imagine that such a move was destined for me within the next two years . |
| 14 | What they witnessed , and what was recreated for us by the Ulster Youth Dance Company in Stranmillis College Theatre at the weekend was a spectacle far more disturbing and revolutionary . |
| 15 | The door was opened for him by a secretary who sat alone in a corner . |
| 16 | Another introduction to politics was provided for me in the person of Randolph Churchill . |
| 17 | By the summer , after a trial period , he was doing well , and the necessary clothing was provided for him by the Union . |
| 18 | So Rachel at six years and Margaret at five years were left in England after our second furlough , and generous help was provided for them by the organiser of a preparatory school . |
| 19 | Legend has it that the first ‘ teddy bear ’ was created for him after an unsuccessful hunting trip . |
| 20 | A part time post was created for me at a busy hospital 40 miles from home , and the arrangement worked very well . |
| 21 | Indeed , Eoin O'Duffy , who led an Irish contingent to Spain to help Franco , maintained that they had gone to fight the battle of Christianity against Communism , a view which was confirmed for them by the Irish Dominican father , Revd Paul O' Sullivan when he said : |
| 22 | In the small , square grave-yard , tangled with bramble and escalonia and overgrown with rank grass and nettles , a hole was dug for her among the bones of former generations ; bones of old women and men scarcely yet forgotten were turned up to make a place for her among them . |
| 23 | It would work fine if the bass E head was changed for one with a shorter post , like that of the A string . |