Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [verb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tynedale Fenwicks and the Liddesdale Elliots were involved for a long time in a savage , unyielding feud ; and the Armstrongs , among their many clashes , quarrelled simultaneously with the Scottish Turnbulls and Johnstones and with the English Bells , while the Bells were also feuding with the English Grahams . |
| 2 | Fasting was maintained for a further 2 hours , after which a normal diet was permitted . |
| 3 | In elections held on March 28-30 , President Robert Mugabe was re-elected for a further term , and his ruling ZANU-PF party won 116 of the 120 elective seats in a restructured 150-member House of Assembly . |
| 4 | The row was sparked when Ards full back Tommy Leeman was booked for a late tackle on Linfield 's Lee Doherty . |
| 5 | Corbett was looking for a suitable place as the crowd began to disperse when Benstede returned , accompanied by a thin , stooping figure with watery eyes , a drinker 's red nose and a wispy beard . |
| 6 | The Democratic Labour Party ( DLP ) government of Prime Minister Erskine Sandiford was returned for a second five-year term at a general election on Jan. 22 . |
| 7 | Having coached Waikato in the New Zealand provincial championship for some years , Ross was looking for a new challenge and the opportunity to come to Northampton came at exactly the right moment . |
| 8 | Frank was working for a large nursery and wanted to get into management when his eyesight started to fail . |
| 9 | Ronnie Barker was hoping for a peaceful life when he retired six years ago . |
| 10 | The Turkish authorities estimated that their charge to Iraq would be US$264,000,000 ; the UN was arguing for a lower figure . |
| 11 | Haygarth Jackson was reappointed for a second term as chairman of Publications and Information Board . |
| 12 | Ben Gill was re-elected for a second year as deputy , and Tony Pexton for a second year as vice-president . |
| 13 | After years of living in several buildings scattered around Soho Square and Oxford Street , Fitch was looking for a permanent headquarters to physically unite its ‘ multi-disciplinary ’ practice . |
| 14 | On March 20 Lee was re-elected for a further six-year presidential term . |
| 15 | Fortunately she had no time to find the answer , as Mr Pumblechook was calling for a hot rum to remove the taste of the medicine . |
| 16 | When de Kooning was looking for a bigger space , Vicente suggested he take a studio next to his . |
| 17 | His wife Colette suffered facial injuries and nine-year-old son Jamie was treated for a fractured elbow . |
| 18 | President Corazon Aquino of the Philippines was pressing for a seven-year treaty with an annual US$825 million in compensation ( comprising $400 million in cash grants and the remainder in concessions including debt reductions and trade concessions ) . |
| 19 | Mr Heseltine was working for a 50:50 hybrid tax , split between property and head-tax . |
| 20 | When Félicie Cendrars saw them again Jeanne and Modi were looking for a reliable wet-nurse , since neither she nor her mother ‘ could do anything with little Jeanne . |
| 21 | Thirty years ago teacher education in Britain was set for a major expansion . |
| 22 | ‘ So — British and Cosmopolitan was taken for a small fortune — and taken for fools too by the seem of it . |
| 23 | And when Steve McMahon was booked for a harsh foul on Town 's Steve Whitton in the dying seconds , player-manager Reid 's emotions took over . |
| 24 | However when he came to Celebes ( hereafter referred to by its modern name , Sulawesi ) , even Alfred Wallace was lost for a complete explanation of how this large star-shaped island acquired its fascinating and unusual fauna . |
| 25 | Mungo was looking for a straight answer . |
| 26 | Jack and Alison were going for a few days to Amsterdam . |
| 27 | To some extent perhaps they were the victims of their own official attitude to what was happening — as when the French Ambassador in London told Eden that a French civil and military resistance organization in Vietnam had the general support of the army and the civil population : whether this was the French or the Vietnamese population was apparently not specified — but in their Declaration of 24 March 1945 the Provisional French Government implied that all the peoples of Indochina were fighting for a common cause ; which was that of the entire French community . |
| 28 | ELABORATE last-ditch attempts to save a town from lava flowing from Sicily 's Mount Etna were postponed for a second day yesterday because of poor weather . |
| 29 | As late as 1815 , in his Treatise on the management of draught horses , especially those in the coal trade in London , Higgs was pleading for a clear detachment of the veterinary surgeon and the farrier from each other . |
| 30 | Archbishop Ralph 's eloquent letter to the pope had had no effect ; St Augustine 's was throwing off the restraints that their neighbours had succeeded in imposing on them in the past ; and York was poised for a final victory in the matter of the primacy . |