Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] for [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Van Railway was opened for freight in 1871 and for passengers in 1873 . |
| 2 | John Wood Group PLC 's £1,000 commission was awarded to Andrew Braidwood and his piece entitled Hamburg was purchased for display in John Wood House . |
| 3 | Corporal Harry Farr was shot for cowardice in October nineteen sixteen . |
| 4 | Lisburn man Bobby Corry was jailed for life in 1986 for what a judge described as the ‘ savage and reckless murder ’ of a caretaker in Belfast 14 years earlier . |
| 5 | Forty-seven year old Trevor Hanson was jailed for life in nineteen seventy-one after a string of sex attacks in the Huddersield area of West Yorkshire . |
| 6 | Durkin was dressed for motoring in a long white dust coat and cap . |
| 7 | After thirty years as an administrator in the National Health Service and an adviser on policing , Miss James was enlisted for service in the corps of commissionaires of British public life . |