Example sentences of "[noun prp] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Jack and Alison were going for a few days to Amsterdam . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Bangladesh and India were to extend for a further three years the trade agreement due to expire in October 1992 , All-India Radio reported on Aug. 6 following talks in New Delhi . |
| 7 | Early in the season , Tony Wright bravely predicted that Gloucestershire were set for a successful summer . |