Example sentences of "[vb past] were [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Less than half the wines listed were selected for awards making the standard set one of the highest in the world . |
| 2 | What was happening to my body — not only the changes brought about by puberty , but the fact that the clothes it wore and the food it consumed were chosen for it by someone else — was a metaphor for what was happening to me as a whole person . |
| 3 | In 1969 Josef Frolik of the Czechoslovakian intelligence service defected to the CIA with his wife and proceeded to give some startling information about numerous British Labour Party politicians and trade union officials who he claimed were working for the KGB . |
| 4 | In Scotland as a whole and in Edinburgh in particular , working-class women and girls mostly found themselves in work that in some sense extended their domestic role : housework , laundry , sewing , while better-educated middle-class women who worked were caring for the young and the sick as teachers and nurses . |
| 5 | The side which lost were reprimanded for their weakness ; the side which won could have anything they wanted from new horses to new leaders . |
| 6 | I 'm a fool , she thought tearfully , knowing the very last vestiges of the shaky companionship they shared were gone for good . |
| 7 | ‘ A lot of the things I did were done for shock value . |