Example sentences of "he was [vb pp] [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Evans said they should get Jack Nicholson for the role and he was invited in for a try-out . |
| 2 | He was turned down for an insurance policy on the grounds that he was too old . |
| 3 | In the 10th round , he was ruled out for a foul , and lost his world championship . |
| 4 | It came as no surprise when he was sent off for a vicious headbutt to the hapless Hudd . |
| 5 | In a game against Aberdeen , he was sent off for the 13th time in his career for fouling John McMaster , and the Pittodrie player was taken to hospital with neck injuries . |
| 6 | When Bud moved south to West Bromwich Albion in 1976 , he found himself in a deep trouble after a game against Brighton , when he was sent off for the unpardonable offence of kicking a referee . |
| 7 | He expected to be there for only three or four days , but he was kept in for a fortnight . |
| 8 | But , although winning a famous victory over ( Sir ) Winston Churchill to become Labour MP for Dundee in November 1922 , he was passed over for the foreign secretaryship of the first Labour government fourteen months later . |
| 9 | Although Clinton 's campaign chairman , Mickey Kantor , was among the transition team , he was passed over for the leadership after negative press reports and reservations from within the Clinton camp concerning his style and his role as a prominent lobbyist . |
| 10 | I recall my own final visit to the farm where he was allowed down for an hour and where the flame was rekindled for that period sufficiently for us to forget his illness and think only that the old Nye had been restored . |
| 11 | He was taken in for a moment , and believed her . |
| 12 | He was knocked out for a time . |
| 13 | He was let out for a walk in the grounds of the medium-security Runwell hospital , near Wickford , Essex . |