Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only way he knew to heal the pain of his humiliation was to punish her for the crime of leaving him . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , the Chancellor was bracing himself for a furious political storm when he unveils his autumn package on Thursday , including a mystery ‘ fiscal package ’ ministers are remaining tight-lipped about . |
| 3 | Because i in , in theory presumably they s they should n't have been abusing their position , they should n't be gaining more because the whole point was to do it for the masses particularly , I mean if you were a Party cadre erm you should n't be getting more out of it than anybody else . |
| 4 | As chance would have it we were going camping with another family whose father was to accompany me for a day 's climbing on Pillar . |
| 5 | The woman was taking him for a ride , working on him to get what she wanted , and that included Lissa 's destruction . |
| 6 | The old man was begging him for a dime to buy a cup of coffee . |
| 7 | The city was bracing itself for a party to beat them all , but the Spaniards decided to re-write the script . |
| 8 | Mrs Verity 's expenditure turned out to be far more than she guessed and their decisions were also affected because the bank was overcharging them for a time . |
| 9 | I mean you could say in this situation the stag was doing it for the benefit of the species but er you do n't need to er you do n't need to take that point of view . |
| 10 | The repeated attacks of this last disease were to trouble him for the rest of his life . |