Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She let us stay with her for a week after Dada — ’ She paused , and again her hesitation appeared as if her mind were groping for an answer or a revelation to something she could n't understand ; then she said , ‘ After Dada … died . |
| 2 | An answer came from Huddersfield , where the Town Football Club were looking for an assistant to their secretary-manager Ambrose Langley , who had partnered Chapman 's brother at Hull before the war . |
| 3 | 3 years ago , Waddesdon Manor was used for a summit between Mrs Thatcher and President Mitterand . |
| 4 | Mr Salmond may well be right in supposing that Labour 's Scottish high command was looking for an excuse to wriggle out of its reluctant commitments to constitutional co-operation . |
| 5 | If the Club was to look for a return on its money , as any other investing institution would , the criteria for that return would be two fold ; a boom in the popularity of tennis at grass roots level and/or impressive results at international level . |
| 6 | As Gabriel 's concentration was broken for a moment , his shears cut the sheep 's skin . |
| 7 | They considered themselves above parish apprentices , yet of the fellow members of the cutter club with whom he rowed on the Thames , Place recalled that the stroke was hanged for a murder he did not commit , not being able to provide an alibi as he was committing a burglary at the time , while the cox was transported for a robbery . |
| 8 | As well as Churchill 's leonine oratory , we enjoyed comedy programmes , such as Tommy Handley 's ITMA which , if heard today , would seem childish indeed ; but the programme was created for an age of less sophisticated humour , and depended upon topical references striking chords in the heart of a nation which was as one , and united in a common cause as never before or since . |
| 9 | Cobalt was heading for a renewal of the morning 's hangover , Oliver would expect to head for Antibes with her later . |
| 10 | Fortunately I had taken my camera-bag with me , so fishing was abandoned for a while as I attempted to take pictures of moving birds from a moving boat ! |
| 11 | They considered themselves above parish apprentices , yet of the fellow members of the cutter club with whom he rowed on the Thames , Place recalled that the stroke was hanged for a murder he did not commit , not being able to provide an alibi as he was committing a burglary at the time , while the cox was transported for a robbery . |
| 12 | Her nose was too small to balance her high flat cheekbones , and her mouth was made for a face at least two sizes larger . |
| 13 | It was ten-thirty and the wedding was fixed for an hour 's time . |
| 14 | Well I would n't be here because a horse was used for a toxin to provide the anti-toxin for diphtheria whe , in my days when I was younger there was no toxins as such , vaccination as such and so therefore the horses were used for research to provide the anti-toxins . |
| 15 | Knowing what I do now [ he says ] , I think the DIA was looking for a way to get me back to Beirut to salvage what it could from the Asmar wreck . |
| 16 | If a constable were to ask for a ladder to rescue a cat from a tree , the person who declined to lend his assistance would commit no offence thereby . |
| 17 | At the same time , milk yields had to be substantially increased and sustainable and the scene was set for a revolution in breeding and for the development of most of the modern breeds . |
| 18 | Using the Mark 1 blue/grey set , complete with a Network SouthEast liveried coach , the scene was set for a return history period piece . |
| 19 | The scene was set for a confrontation which , because of the simultaneous peaking of unrest over the food question , threatened to bring not only a few militant engineers , but whole working-class communities into direct action against the continuation of the war . |
| 20 | The scene was set for a movie genius but what was important for the history of the movies was that the genius who emerged to push the medium and the industry into a new era was a self-educated romantic whose values and ideas had not been provided by any distinctive intellectual tradition or urban political party but rather had emerged first out of his Southern , rural , Methodist past and then as he had drifted through a rapidly changing America . |
| 21 | In all sixteen teams had made it through to this stage and with a full house the scene was set for an evening of top quizzing . |
| 22 | However , here he was at pains to point out that ‘ although this work was intended for an appendix to the Gardeners Dictionary , yet it may be reckoned a complete performance in itself independent to that ’ . |
| 23 | Even the Clunbury Coach was forgotten for a while whilst the gems of Midland heritage were admired . |
| 24 | Elsewhere in the country , one polling station in the south was occupied for a time by Khmer Rouge troops , who eventually stole a UN car and left . |
| 25 | Here too the danger of government instability was exchanged for a limitation on the power of government … |
| 26 | An ambitious plan was formed for a bridge of boats to be constructed so that an attack on the mainland could be mounted . |
| 27 | The tableau was held for a moment , and the curtain swiftly fell . |
| 28 | In the first place it was clear that it had been a mistake to let Alexei know that his transfer away from the Praetorian Guard had been requested — because if the boy was looking for an excuse for his antagonism , then the one with which he had just been presented was perfect . |
| 29 | A BANNED driver who mowed down and killed five youngsters in a high-speed chase was jailed for a maximum of five years yesterday . |
| 30 | The National Dairy Council was reprimanded for an advertisement headlined : ‘ Worried about Osteoporosis ? |