Example sentences of "i was [verb] [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At eighteen , I was called up for the Army and I was three years there . |
| 2 | I had been asked to teach a course of lectures at the Teachers ’ College , which is the only place in NZ to run a speech therapy course ( run jointly with the university ) ; so I was staying on for an extra 4 weeks , while the others ( except Ned , who was also staying in Christchurch with his job ) headed for Auckland to fly home . |
| 3 | I was operated on for the first time when I was two or three weeks old . |
| 4 | After Seve 's win at Lytham I was worn out for a week . |
| 5 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 6 | And er I was put up for the committee and was successful and sat on the committee for quite a number of years . |
| 7 | I was tired , Thérèse said : so I was lying down for a bit . |
| 8 | The cops worked shifts , but I was booked in for the run . |