Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I , I mean I do n't know , I was n't there for half the things she was talking about last night , I mean I was upstairs for three quarters of an hour trying to go to sleep |
| 2 | But er I was away for a week there , I only came back on Saturday . |
| 3 | ‘ I got a lot of response from the article and my request for someone to move into my home and look after the children while I was away for the eight months in Bristol , ’ she said . |
| 4 | The first the first half a year that I was Holland I I do n't think I was away for a holiday , but then the the next Summer then I was away . |
| 5 | She said , ‘ I was indoors for a bit . |
| 6 | ‘ I was n't aware that I was here for your entertainment . |
| 7 | I thought that that was what I was here for , that he was something special , chosen by God . |
| 8 | It 's bad enough at first but then it gets worse even as they keep me because they found more , they found two more and that was while I was here for Christ 's sake while they held me while things were still happening more stuff came in while they were questioning me and they looked at me with disbelief horror disgust and I was going What ? |
| 9 | And all of a sudden I was here for six months and then it was , then it 's a fucking year . |
| 10 | We watched you come home , we saw you go into the house and I was all for going right in after you and confronting Imogen , telling you the truth , because I had learned all about how she had dragged you from place to place , from house to house . |
| 11 | I was all for passing by on the other side of the road , but Buffy would n't let it drop . |
| 12 | I was all for telling you everything about Elaine . |
| 13 | I was there for about three and a half years . |
| 14 | ‘ I was there for a while , ’ she said pointedly but she was careful not to press too much . |
| 15 | I was there for two years . |
| 16 | ‘ I was there for two and a half years , now I would just like to keep my happy memories . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I was there for her birth and it was the most exciting thing I have ever experienced ! ’ exclaimed the father of the baby , and the owner of a home movie of strictly limited appeal . |
| 18 | Jason Cundy gets his first chance to play against his former club since moving from Stamford Bridge last season — ‘ I still do n't know why they sold me — I thought I was there for my career , ‘ he says — but Meanwhile , in-form Chelsea will be without the suspended Mick Harford . |
| 19 | About 12 years ago I was there for four months , and it was 16 weeks too long . |
| 20 | ‘ I was there for a long time , but I ca n't remember anyone visiting me . |
| 21 | I was there for another month , then they sent me to Bullwood Hall . |
| 22 | I was there for two weeks . |
| 23 | So a week later I moved in , and I was there for a year-and-a-half . |
| 24 | I was there for so long . |
| 25 | Er , which er I suppose I was there for for six years . |
| 26 | I was there for nearly six months and by the end of the first week , I wanted to die . |
| 27 | I was there for about a couple of years and then I moved in into Nottingham on traff on the Traffic Department , you know the people that wear the white hats and , and do people for speeding . |
| 28 | Bet you never even noticed I was there for the first three years . " |
| 29 | And erm I was there for about a year . |
| 30 | So I erm , I erm , was put into the Royal Army Pay Corp and posted up to Barnet , North London and I was there for quite a while , we all transferred down to Winchester . |