Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [was/were] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ferdinand believed Godoy was scheming for a regency to exclude him from the throne ; Godoy knew that Ferdinand was intriguing against him with the French ambassador . |
| 2 | Like Abed before him , I reckoned Mazzin was hoping for a violent response in order to have an excuse to beat us up . |
| 3 | In 1853 his whole collected works were published for the first time with an introduction in which the editor , George Offor , hailed them as a weapon in the struggle against ‘ the mighty efforts ’ which were then being made ‘ to enthral the country in the Satanic yoke of popery or its dark ill-shapen brother Puseyism ’ . |
| 4 | Gray began singing for Baldwin after her cousin — an avid Chicago house devotee who would occasionally drag Paris out to the city 's hottest clubs — heard Baldwin was looking for a singer and gave him Gray 's number . |
| 5 | Their social characteristics , the type of crime of which they were accused and the district in which the crime took place were recorded for the period 1896 — 1905 ( Appendix A ) . |
| 6 | A similar but more complicated arrangement of alternatively spliced exons was reported for the Drosophila muscle MHC ( 15 ) , which showed that multiple isoforms could exist with only small differences in apparent molecular weight . |
| 7 | Mrs Vowden said Leena was going for a bike ride when the accident happened at 6.10 pm on Wednesday at the junction of Edinburgh Road and Hamilton Road , Newmarket . |
| 8 | Smooth-talking Pat O'Rourke said companies were clamouring for the rights to screen the yarn , Lifeboys . |
| 9 | He 'd been brought up on a farm and had a way with horses , and his first job when he left school was working for a brewery breaking in the big black cobs they brought over wild from Ireland and put to use as cart-horses dragging the great heavy drays full of ale . |