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Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [be] [verb] for " in BNC.

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1	Someone , somewhere out there just had to be searching for her .
2	Mick still seemed to be looking for an excuse to return home , so I chose not to make an issue of the blunder .
3	You always had to be prepared for anything . "
4	They also came to be blamed for the ills of the locality , including the use of sweated labour by unscrupulous employers , rack-renting by slum land-lords , and the increased crime rate .
5	He was not an alien , northern magnate from whom anything might be expected , but a key figure in the reconstructed royal authority which now needed to be preserved for the young king .
6	He was not an alien , northern magnate from whom anything might be expected , but a key figure in the reconstructed royal authority which now needed to be preserved for the young king .
7	This talented designer from the south of Italy often appeared to be designing for those wishing to make an entrance at the Cannes film festival rather than turn heads at Maxim 's .
8	He was wearing the leather shoes that had been only for best until they grew too small for his feet and now had to be worn for school .
9	Because of the division of labour , work soon became the perpetual repetition of a simple task , or the minding of a machine ; such work often had to be done for fourteen hours a day , six days a week , and there were no special provisions for the women and very young children who were considered especially suitable for work in the textile industries .
10	He even asked to be dropped for the fifth Test .
11	Both sides indeed seemed to be pleading for German support against the other .
12	Local communities thus had to find more money to fulfil even their admitted obligations under the statute of 1327 , and the regular wearing of military uniform , which began in the 1330s , added to their burden since it too had to be paid for by the community .