Example sentences of "[indef pn] was [verb] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 2 | In due course my friendly farmer , Cyril Young , delivered four sheep to Oakington and everything was set for a bit of a barny at the Lion . |
| 3 | Maybe it 'll lead him to explain that he latched on to lust because something was missing for the moment in your relationship . |
| 4 | Four thousand years ago a funeral pyre like this one was built for a woman who was either heavily pregnant or recently delivered of a child . |
| 5 | Four thousand years ago a funeral pyre like this one was built for a woman who was either heavily pregnant or who who had recently had of a child . |
| 6 | At that stage in his career no one was looking for a hit-machine : the longer heads realised that it was a difficult job to scale the face of Broadway — as it was in the West End — with so few footholds and even fewer helping ropes dangling down to give you a lift . |
| 7 | The official report says no one was to blame for the fire , which started after a halogen lamp overheated near a curtain . |
| 8 | Investigators concluded that no one was to blame for the blaze started by a spotlight overheating a curtain . |
| 9 | Everybody was shouting for a penalty . |
| 10 | Everyone was heading for the bedroom from which had come the screams . |
| 11 | Nothing was said for a while and then Maidstone straightened himself up . |
| 12 | Nothing was said for a moment or two , and then Johnny sighed . |