Example sentences of "i [was/were] [vb pp] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | At eighteen , I was called up for the Army and I was three years there . |
2 | I was operated on for the first time when I was two or three weeks old . |
3 | After Seve 's win at Lytham I was worn out for a week . |
4 | I was taken there for the first time when I was six weeks old in a motor side car down from London to just within ten miles of Bury St Edmunds . |
5 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
6 | And er I was put up for the committee and was successful and sat on the committee for quite a number of years . |
7 | ‘ Sorry , yes , I was carried away for a moment there . |
8 | The cops worked shifts , but I was booked in for the run . |