Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pron] were [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps I 'm being obtuse , but why should our visit to Nice suggest we were shopping for drugs ? |
| 2 | Later , both Dustin and Voight avowed they were rooting for Wayne , despite the wide political divergence between them and the older star . |
| 3 | Melanie knew they were coming for her and started . |
| 4 | No 3221 Set by Naomi Marks You were asked for Which -style guides to everyday objects — like cookers , fridges , etc — written in kulcher-babble . |
| 5 | It was not until they had just left the Church that Joan discovered they were going for two weeks to Tenerife . |
| 6 | The costumes for the Sadler 's Wells production were designed , at de Valois 's insistence , by Hedley Briggs , an old associate of hers , but they seem not to have differed materially from the ones by Hanns Ebensten which were used for the original Cape Town production . |