Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just that there are some things the mind-set is not adjusted to and I was tuned in for bracing winds , long place names and snatches of Tom Jones . |
| 2 | He took drugs , he said , ‘ because my parents had divorced and I was crying out for love . |
| 3 | It seems to me that this is something on which er not en passant but within the flow of his report Dr Stuart mentioned something of great importance and I was jotting down for myself , by way of aide memoire , membership , Madagascar , ministry of the whole people of God , three Ms as it were . |
| 4 | The first of the two meetings then was of the regional chairman of BAIE ( and I was standing in for ours in Scotland ) followed by a meeting of the Council of BAIE . |
| 5 | And you were jumping around for joy and saying |
| 6 | And she was going in for eggs or something , said well I usually leave them a day or two in the winter cos it does n't hurt and she said she struggled and struggled with that door ! |
| 7 | The long and the short of it is , her father owns the two shops — I suppose they 're joined at the back — and she was standing in for her father . |
| 8 | ‘ People were very friendly and we were invited in for a number of cups of tea during our stay , ’ PC Mardon said . |
| 9 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |
| 10 | They 'd all come straight to Ingham 's after the Requiem Mass and they were waiting now for John Burns , the undertaker , to come and tell them when the grave was ready at the cemetery and the men would walk the coffin there . |
| 11 | ‘ But when I came in they were clearly not ready and they were running around for tyres . |
| 12 | They had fetched him for Christmas and he was staying on for the New Year . |
| 13 | ‘ We called at the Barclays on the way down , and he was staying there for the week-end . |
| 14 | Evans said they should get Jack Nicholson for the role and he was invited in for a try-out . |
| 15 | His condition was therefore monitored and he was prepared carefully for surgery . |
| 16 | Actually , before he moved away , he , he gave up his designing job and he was working in for a bit . |
| 17 | She 'll go up up the path and all I could see was this cat , and it was hanging on for dear life up this big tree and there |
| 18 | A Kha-Khan did not ask ; he commanded , and it was left simply for everyone else to obey . |
| 19 | Three years ago , it would have easily surpassed its $50–80,000 estimate but there was not a bid in the room , and it was sold afterward for a paltry $25,000 ( £17,850 ) . |
| 20 | The youngster said : ‘ I turned around and it was coming straight for me . |