Example sentences of "they [was/were] [adv] [vb pp] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were already dressed for the wedding , wearing little bits of borrowed fineries they were afraid he would notice . |
| 2 | Lothian and Borders police said they were well prepared for the friendly invasion . |
| 3 | Needless to say , they were well primed for The Smiths . |
| 4 | They were clearly destined for the junior secondary , with no hope of passing the " qualie " . |
| 5 | Shortly afterwards they were outward bound for the Great Barrier Reef where they cruised for a year in search of a dream . |
| 6 | Even on weekdays there were problems in booking caddies because members who , say , arrived at lunchtime might discover that all the caddies were out on the course , and there was no way of telling whether they were also booked for the afternoon ! |
| 7 | They were also allowed for the first time to subsidize denominational primary schools . |
| 8 | As they lie smoothly on top of one another , they were also used for the principal retaining walk around the lawn . |
| 9 | Irish cattle were very popular at Norwich market because they were ideally suited for the coastal marshes in Norfolk and north Suffolk . |
| 10 | These divertors are magnetic additions to the containment field : they were originally invented for the stellarator but have now been tried in tokamaks such as Culham 's DITE experiment . |
| 11 | And and lot of the oats and the corn they was roughly ground for the . |