Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The colleges were back at the end of September , holidays had ended , the metropolis was beginning to settle down for the winter . |
| 2 | The Act was needed to make up for the shortcomings of the Sale of Goods Act , 1979 , which applied only to the transfer of goods from a seller to a buyer and not to a situation where goods were being provided as part of a service , such as building work and car repairs , for example . |
| 3 | It was a suspiciously long letter for someone who seldom wrote any , and when Rain was waiting to set off for the office he was still tapping away at it . |
| 4 | 20–6–1860 It was understood that Mr Sutherland intended to resign from the school at Mulindry and the Moderator was instructed to look out for a successor . |
| 5 | Before that girl took up with you the most she ever did in her life was get dressed up for church . |
| 6 | He thought it was maybe just er the driver had taken someone to the church was waiting to go back for them . |
| 7 | Accordingly , nothing in his framework was designed to stand up for liberty where the legislature saw fit to intervene with new restrictive laws , or where the courts contrived to discover or develop them ; Dicey simply assumed that this would not occur . |
| 8 | He was dismayed by the vendor 's agents who confirmed they and their client were determined to hold out for double the offer . |