Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [verb] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At eighteen , I was called up for the Army and I was three years there . |
| 2 | I had been asked to teach a course of lectures at the Teachers ’ College , which is the only place in NZ to run a speech therapy course ( run jointly with the university ) ; so I was staying on for an extra 4 weeks , while the others ( except Ned , who was also staying in Christchurch with his job ) headed for Auckland to fly home . |
| 3 | I was operated on for the first time when I was two or three weeks old . |
| 4 | After Seve 's win at Lytham I was worn out for a week . |
| 5 | I was taken there for the first time when I was six weeks old in a motor side car down from London to just within ten miles of Bury St Edmunds . |
| 6 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 7 | And er I was put up for the committee and was successful and sat on the committee for quite a number of years . |
| 8 | The Inspector left it at that and as I was waiting expectantly for the interview to end , he said : ‘ Why does an educated man like you spend his time caddying ? |
| 9 | ‘ Sorry , yes , I was carried away for a moment there . |
| 10 | It was about five years later when I was going away for a weekend and knowing that space in the car would be limited , I spent a long time thinking what sketching materials to take which would not need much room . |
| 11 | I was tired , Thérèse said : so I was lying down for a bit . |
| 12 | The cops worked shifts , but I was booked in for the run . |
| 13 | The woman said she had , and in the filing cabinet behind , but that she was searching specifically for a pair of scissors . |
| 14 | At the time , Belinda had merely thought she was resting up for the party . |
| 15 | And he saw the ring , his ring , that she was wearing openly for the occasion , beside Anne Mowbray 's wedding-ring on the third finger of her left hand . |
| 16 | She 'd never thought she was cut out for the domestic life , but she was surprised to find just how satisfying and fulfilling it really was . |
| 17 | She 'd told her husband she was going out for a walk with their pet dog , Kirsty , when she was found the dog was still clinging to her . |
| 18 | Next Sunday she was going home for a special birthday tea they were arranging for her . |
| 19 | In week 4 she was in bed by 8pm every night except one , when she was allowed up for a special event . |
| 20 | Clearly Helen has looked for ‘ explanations ’ to help her deal with such a painful experience , and the one she seems to have come up with is that she was picked on for the way she looks . |
| 21 | There was a tricky thing called the seminally defiled state , and you had to make sure that when your old lady left the house she was doing so for a specific purpose , but on the whole even Marwan was pretty laissez-faire about a girl and a boy talking about subjects of mutual interest . |
| 22 | She had been so pleased when Dr. Briant had suggested she lunch with him in the medical staff dining room , aching as she was to get away for a while at least from the uncomfortable atmosphere of the Maternity Ward . |
| 23 | Clearly suffering from the after-effects of a hip injury , she was knocked down for a koka — just three points — by the Soviet Elena Petrova , but it was enough to wipe out her hopes of a third consecutive world title . |
| 24 | When Checkland 's contract came up for renewal , it was renewed only for a token year . |
| 25 | Aha that was just went in It was all blown to the side and that was it was kept just for the for the carol beasts for the sheds you see , for the that was what the what we saw what they bedded them down with that . |
| 26 | It was exchanged later for a black Old English sheepdog owned by some relatives of ours at Piercebridge . |
| 27 | It was developed specifically for the larger urban workshops and consists of an adjustable loom with a device which , by altering the tension on the warp strands , shifts the completed work to the rear of the loom , allowing the weaver to sit at the same level throughout the entire rug-making process . |
| 28 | By now , it was raining enough for the covers to go on over at Wimbledon . |
| 29 | When d'Argenlieu dispatched himself hastily to Paris a few days after the French elections and before the Haiphong incident , it was to lobby intensively for a policy of firmness ; and his tactic , says Devillers , was simple : to create fear . |
| 30 | Perhaps it is seeking to increase the audience , or perhaps it was lead astray for a while by the fact that , during the Conservative leadership contest , the exciting politics at Westminster were not in the Chamber . |