Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [vb pp] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I made up my mind — " Now Mary Edgar you 'll be terribly sea-sick , " so I was prepared for the worst . |
| 2 | I was intended for the religious life . |
| 3 | I was abused for the first time at three years old . |
| 4 | I make this point after returning from a day 's walking near Ullswater when I was approached by a party of walkers who had followed me for some distance thinking that I was headed for the same destination . |
| 5 | ‘ I was asked for the first time last week what I 'd do if we got into the Premier League . |
| 6 | And , if any other recommendation be needed , I was asked for the second time to be coach monitor on our outing to Brighton , so you can see that I must be OK . |
| 7 | I trusted him to see that I was equipped for the new life I had chosen . |
| 8 | Luck plays a great part in success and as mine would have it , I was chosen for the pre-Christmas show . |
| 9 | I said that unless I was picked for the final leg I would n't run . |
| 10 | The argument that she was employed for the specific purpose of teaching students , and therefore not eligible for dismissal rights , was rejected . |
| 11 | There was the proliferative retinopathy episode a few weeks ago , and when she was hospitalised for the threatened toxaemia we found that her blood glucose was actually better controlled at home now than in hospital … |
| 12 | Later she was to think how little she was prepared for the simple events which were to change her life completely — indeed she would have said that so much had happened to her already that any further incidents must be minor , a judgement which could not have been more faulty . |
| 13 | If she was prepared for the worst then , God willing , it would n't happen . |
| 14 | Detectives investigating the murder of Glasgow pensioner Agnes Law have revealed that she was killed for the few pounds she had in her house . |
| 15 | No more than 14 when she pocketed the Scottish Girls ' title and the Scottish Girls ' Under-22 Stroke-Play Championship for a first time , Jane became the youngest ever to play for Great Britain and Ireland in the Curtis Cup when she was chosen for the 1980 match at St. Pierre . |
| 16 | Her mother was a true believer in Christ , and after she was widowed for the second time , she came to live in Kidderminster in 1658 . |
| 17 | She was captured for the second time and remains disappeared . |
| 18 | And it was done for the best , although I must admit it did n't turn out like that . |
| 19 | It was attended for the first time by observers from China and France , neither of which was a signatory of the treaty . |
| 20 | It was reburied for the last time in 1973 after the number of visitors was found to be too high for the Cotswold village of Woodchester to cope with . |
| 21 | It was kept for the finished film . |
| 22 | When a dispute arose under the contract , it was discovered for the first time that the copy returned by B had a number of terms printed on the back , in German , including a clause conferring jurisdiction in relation to disputes under the contract on the German courts . |
| 23 | It was granted for the following day and a deputation was formed consisting of Dr. Paisley , leader of the DUP ; Rev. William Beattie , deputy leader of the same party ; Cecil Harvey , Vanguard Unionist Assembly member from the Saintfield area ; and the present writer . |
| 24 | It was built for the Parravicini family , a family of noble birth from Brianza and has a fine , if dirty , façade of red brick and elegantly simple windows . |
| 25 | It was certified for the first time in 1986 . |
| 26 | They sold it , together with an earlier Forney model , two years later in October 1971 through the then well-known aircraft brokers W. S. Shackleton of Coventry , whence it was bought for the princely sum of £2,150 by airline captain David Vernon , who has owned it ever since . |
| 27 | There is no record of the history of this manuscript before it was bought for the British Museum in 1836 , but it appears possible that the Jouglet it contains could be one text forming a bridge between the French fabliaux and the Anglo-Norman . |
| 28 | It was used for the German Grand Prix in 1985 but its return as a championship circuit was shortlived and it now plays second string to the Hockenheim . |
| 29 | At last , wonder of wonders it was finished for the second time , I tried it on and it drowned me . |
| 30 | The Brotherhood is still active today , not only in Egypt where it is prominent in university life , but in Jordan and Syria ( where it was blamed for the 1982 uprising at Hama ) . |