Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In each building , one end was partitioned off for single girls , the other end for single men , and the middle section was for families . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | McMillan was stopped in the eighth round because his left arm had been viciously dislocated from its shoulder socket — but at the time our Colin was hanging on for grim life . |
| 4 | The grant was broken down for individual lines , as with the pre-1974 British system ( RENFE 1984a : 55–7 , 82 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ I found a flea market in Holborn and was walking around for three hours . |
| 6 | Not that she intended accepting any favours from him , but she knew he was booked in for two nights , which gave her time to return his hospitality if she could not manipulate tonight into a Dutch treat . |
| 7 | One of the worst winters we had was at the start of the war , in 1940 , when the river was frozen over for six weeks right to the end of March and there was two feet of snow . |
| 8 | In 1991 the previous year 's ceiling of 23.65 million b/d was rolled over for another year , but no country quotas were set . |
| 9 | Three operations did not succeed in curing his glaucoma , and he had to give up his business in 1878 , although it was carried on for some years by his daughters , Eleanor , Elizabeth , and Catherine , as E. E. Dancer & Company . |
| 10 | Hybridisation was carried out for 18 hours at 50°C in a humid environment . |
| 11 | This analysis was carried out for mixed schools only ( there were four single-sex schools in the sample , three boys ' and one girls ' ) . |
| 12 | The Staffordshire Blithe , whose lower reaches escaped the axe and are therefore witness to how exquisite a properly managed river can be , was picked out for special mention in the Journal of Agriculture for 1927 . |
| 13 | I liked to find my own stories — and I was just beginning to place the best of them in national papers when I was whisked off for two years ' National Service . |
| 14 | The Metropolitan Police have said that Courtney offered his services — but he was turned down for any work . |
| 15 | All of these were admitted to the smallpox hospital , which was , however , later demolished , when the ground was built over for industrial purposes . |
| 16 | The 46-year-old Exeter manager was drafted in for last month 's win over France at Wembley as the England manager cast around for a successor to the disgraced Steve Harrison . |
| 17 | He thought these were helpful plans — something positive to get to grips with the habit and see an end to cash shortages in the housekeeping as money was siphoned off for another packet ; no more sandpaper taste in the mouth ; no clothes reeking of stale tobacco and an end to the shakes . |
| 18 | it looks like he 's learnt from the Arse match where he was hauled back for 5 yards by Campbell before they scored their 2nd . |
| 19 | The second innovation was to look around for offshore oil facilities , island bases or production platforms on which the air force could station helicopters , equipped with missiles , sometimes improvised Maverick anti-tank models . |
| 20 | It was not only other ancient literature that was opened up for new understanding by the Renaissance : the Bible too began to be read with new eyes , eyes no longer focused simply by the authoritative teaching of the church . |
| 21 | All the happening was going on for other people miles away . |
| 22 | ‘ She was going off for short stays at the Home , and then every weekend to give me a break . |
| 23 | Friends on the ground watched in horror as he was towed along for 20 seconds before managing to pull an emergency handle to free himself from the snagged chute . |
| 24 | In 1921 , for example , the boys section at Bradford Park Avenue was closed down for three months after the referee had been pelted with rubbish , and in the early 1920s the fierce North London rivalries between Arsenal and Spurs flared into open street battles in which some of the more zealous fans were armed with iron bars and knives . |
| 25 | ‘ I was getting on for thirty years of age , with the retarded emotions of an adolescent , and the only excuse I have is that I 'd spent most of my youth pursuing excellence rather than women . ’ |
| 26 | One late summer morning when Celia was getting on for four years old , Harriet drove back to Four Winds after one of her solo shopping-trips and was surprised to find Liza sitting outside with a young woman of about her own age . |
| 27 | Kenneth Shoane , 66 , was bound over for two years by Maidstone Crown Court in Kent yesterday for making threats to kill Kate Kray , 35 . |
| 28 | " He was bound over for two years in Leeds , but that ended last month . " |
| 29 | He was bound over for 12 months in the sum of £100 to be of good behaviour . |
| 30 | It was a relief when , at 21 , Stan was called up for National Service . |