Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] for [pron] [prep] the " 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 | The loud calls for the author , by a curious irony , were taken for him by the U.S. ambassador . |
| 3 | He passed them on to another colleague who led us finally to our places which were kept for us in the Grand Salon . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Donal was married on August 29 and shortly afterwards an appointment was made for him at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Little did I imagine that such a move was destined for me within the next two years . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Another introduction to politics was provided for me in the person of Randolph Churchill . |
| 11 | By the summer , after a trial period , he was doing well , and the necessary clothing was provided for him by the Union . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 : |
| 14 | 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 . |