Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [was/were] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The awful thing is that the movies that I 've been involved with in the last erm few years have entailed my being abroad a great deal , and I was made in New York entirely and I was there for six or seven months , and the difficulty is that when you then make the movie and you take it round the world , you 're away for another three or four months and so you end up being out of the country for quite a long time , so I 've been nothing like as active with the university . |
| 2 | And I was there for twenty five years . |
| 3 | and you were there for half past five . |
| 4 | They took both of us down the block , and we were there for two days — no blankets , no bed , nothing , just a mattress on the floor . |
| 5 | I met my first boyfriend when I was in the fifth year at school , and we were together for six years . |
| 6 | On most occasions when mass demonstrations took place there were clashes with the police and it was primarily for this reason that the Labour Party and the TUC tried to discourage such a form of protest . |
| 7 | During his childhood , Holovich had been taught Russian by his mother and it was ostensibly for that reason that his company asked him to visit Moscow — a quite spurious reason because we supply most adequate and experienced interpreters for commercial negotiations with foreign concerns . |
| 8 | But it was probably for another reason that Mahmoud had called on him . |
| 9 | He used to go to Goose Fair , and all the fairs , whatever they was , but it was only for three days . |
| 10 | But it was precisely for that reason that they were likely to lose . |