Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [pron] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was just keeping it for wee Jonathan . |
| 2 | At A level , I toyed with the idea of doing physics , maths and English , and if I was just doing it for pure enjoyment I would have done it at that stage . |
| 3 | Gee Armytage was yesterday bracing herself for another spell on the sidelines as she recovers from a back injury sustained in the Coral Welsh National . |
| 4 | She knew he had killed one of her countrymen the previous evening , and she supposed he was now preparing himself for all the others he would fight . |
| 5 | Tim Waterstone declined to expound on the decision , beyond saying that Waterstones had withdrawn from the concession for commercial reasons and was now re-entering it for commercial reasons . |
| 6 | I can think of a dozen men of much more recent notoriety if she was simply inventing it for some cranky reason of her own . |
| 7 | René Descartes , who attempted to discover truth by doubting everything he could manage to doubt , described the first principle of his method like this in A Discourse on Method , ‘ The first rule was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such ; that is to say … to comprise nothing more in my judgement than what was presented to my mind so clearly and distinctly as to exclude all ground of doubt . ’ |