Example sentences of "she [was/were] [vb pp] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was treated for a cut on her head but the injury was not serious and she is continuing her holiday in Cyprus . |
| 2 | She was gone for a quarter of an hour , then , like a ghost , she reappeared in the downstairs room and sat down . |
| 3 | I do n't think she was fooled for a minute by Werewolf 's professional decoy act , but she went along with it . |
| 4 | As she assumed her drunken pose and shambled towards the centre of the stage , she was deafened for a moment by the clapping and the shouting ; and different names came to her ears , all meant for her : ‘ Good old Lemon ! |
| 5 | She was blamed for a crash which killed bride-to-be Teresa Power , 26 . |
| 6 | 5 years ago she was fined for a breach of planning laws after years of complaints about noise . |
| 7 | Occasionally she was caught for a fraction of a second with images of a pig 's cot wall with a black cat on it or a square stone chapel silhouetted in Sunday dusk , but these were inconsequential visitations , debris from the past uncovered by the rhythms of a particular song or the set and angle of a passing face , a passing mood . |
| 8 | She was bought for a consortium of Arabs and will stay in training next season . |