Example sentences of "[subord] they [was/were] [vb pp] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , increasingly , films look like they were designed for the small screen . |
| 2 | To make matters worse , the value of homes has dropped dramatically since they were fixed for the council tax more than a year ago . |
| 3 | Six seconds of fame after hours of queueing for this fan of a fan THE Lamports had queued for four hours before they were interviewed for the Antiques . |
| 4 | They 're lab chimps , and before they were acquired for the Jenner Clinic they were part of a language project . |
| 5 | Naturally most of the boys opted for ‘ the strip ’ and each time the innuendo was made the girls pretended it was terribly witty and original , If a little naughty , just as they did when they were asked for the twentieth time if perhaps they might be the prize . |
| 6 | But the British authorities were unable to protect the Littlejohns when they were arrested for the robbery of £67,000 from a bank in Grafton Street , Dublin , in 1972 . |