Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [vb pp] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I was summoned for a talk : ‘ Do n't worry , we 'll get this man you suspect in for interrogation and the truth will triumph ’ . |
| 2 | Perhaps because I was taken for a Jew . |
| 3 | So I was particularly pleased to find at one point , when I 'd indulged in a lengthy photo session , that the rest of the party had gone over the brow and out of sight and I was left for a while with the world to myself . |
| 4 | But one incident that amused me was that I was booked for a coffee commercial and the producer phoned me up the night before the session to let me know the track we were doing , because he said he wanted to get it as close to the original as he possibly could . |
| 5 | £560 if you were hospitalised for a week after being involved in an accident as the NatWest Hospital Income Plan would pay you DOUBLE the normal rate for hospitalisation . |
| 6 | She was treated for a cut on her head but the injury was not serious and she is continuing her holiday in Cyprus . |
| 7 | She was gone for a quarter of an hour , then , like a ghost , she reappeared in the downstairs room and sat down . |
| 8 | I do n't think she was fooled for a minute by Werewolf 's professional decoy act , but she went along with it . |
| 9 | As she assumed her drunken pose and shambled towards the centre of the stage , she was deafened for a moment by the clapping and the shouting ; and different names came to her ears , all meant for her : ‘ Good old Lemon ! |
| 10 | She was blamed for a crash which killed bride-to-be Teresa Power , 26 . |
| 11 | 5 years ago she was fined for a breach of planning laws after years of complaints about noise . |
| 12 | Occasionally she was caught for a fraction of a second with images of a pig 's cot wall with a black cat on it or a square stone chapel silhouetted in Sunday dusk , but these were inconsequential visitations , debris from the past uncovered by the rhythms of a particular song or the set and angle of a passing face , a passing mood . |
| 13 | She was bought for a consortium of Arabs and will stay in training next season . |
| 14 | Since we were staffed for a complement of 135 trainees , our first move would have to be to make staff redundant . |
| 15 | And at the end of the session we were taken for a tow round the harbour . |
| 16 | We were moored for a minute , then ‘ Let's all get the hell out of here , ’ said the man in the wheelhouse and like lightning the young lad untied the rope and jumped aboard as the boat reversed astern . |
| 17 | The missi were both priests and laymen ; they were appointed for a term of one year in specified countships and complaints against count or bishop were brought before them . |
| 18 | UN aid officials said yesterday they were prepared for a battle of wills with rebel Serbs in an attempt to get trucks loaded with emergency supplies through to starving Muslims in eastern Bosnia . |
| 19 | Throughout his time at university , Gedge was still seeing Janet Rigby , although they were separated for a year while she finished her ‘ A ’ Levels in Middleton . |
| 20 | They were silhouetted for a moment on the brow of the hill against a last pool of light among encroaching black storm-clouds . |
| 21 | Blackpool Council were impressed with the smooth running and high speeds , when they were taken for a trial run on July 1st in 1898 . |
| 22 | They were filmed for a documentary , ’ Twenty-four Square Miles ’ shot in an area that size in north Oxfordshire . |
| 23 | It was created for a group of mums who felt their babies were too old for new mums but not yet ready for the rough and tumble of open houses . |
| 24 | To return to the ECSC Treaty , it was concluded for a period of 50 years only and is therefore due to expire in less than ten years from now . |
| 25 | During 1965–1968 , I rethought and redeveloped my work on semantics until it was accepted for a Ph.D . |
| 26 | Er Mike said in his autobiography that when they got the play and converted it to film , they changed the age of the character for a start , cos in the play it was written in the late fifties by Bill and it was written for a man approaching his forties . |
| 27 | It was received for a variety of voluntary input in Scotland and nationally , but most notably , I gather , in respect of Education and Professional Development , which leads on to my other purpose in writing . |
| 28 | ‘ It was lost for a while . ’ |
| 29 | It was built for a neighbour of Henry Royce . |
| 30 | It was used for a variety of purposes ; most commonly as a retaining fee for a knight who could be called out whenever the king or lord had need of him . |