Example sentences of "he [was/were] [vb pp] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was hospitalised for a week . |
| 2 | He was remanded for a week . |
| 3 | This allowed Innocent in 1199 to intervene , as he was asked for a dispensation . |
| 4 | He was asked for a ride by another boy , who never returned the bike . |
| 5 | He was prepared for a battle if the porter turned out to be as difficult a customer as his wife . |
| 6 | He was tempted for a moment to leave his questioning till later , till a better time , but Holdfast had his own ideas . |
| 7 | He was born for a hanging , that one . |
| 8 | He was pressed for a date and told ‘ before tonight I always thought of you as a child — but you 're not . ’ |
| 9 | Hsu himself grew up in eastern China but his account is evidently a syncretic blend of what he learned as a child from personal experience and what he learned as an adult , several thousand miles away to the west , during fourteen months ' fieldwork in the Yunnanese city of Tali-fu , where he was employed for a while as a teacher in a local missionary college . |
| 10 | In the bronze medal fight against Axel Lobenstein , of East Germany , White appeared to start with more aggressive determination , but his attacks were way off target and he was thrown for a yuko ( five points ) as he got up off the ground . |
| 11 | He was marked for a fade-out long before the finish . |
| 12 | But he was banned for a year — because he was well over the alcohol limit at the time . |
| 13 | In August 1920 , almost by chance , he was attached for a year to the small peacetime signal intelligence organization in London , and was then posted to Simla in India , where for eight years he performed cipher-breaking duties with remarkable success . |
| 14 | The Mr Universe competition brought him to London , and he was recruited for a tour of South Pacific which needed men for the chorus . |