Example sentences of "i was [verb] [adv prt] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At eighteen , I was called up for the Army and I was three years there . |
| 2 | I was operated on for the first time when I was two or three weeks old . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And er I was put up for the committee and was successful and sat on the committee for quite a number of years . |
| 5 | The cops worked shifts , but I was booked in for the run . |