Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The petitioners wanted to know whether a legacy of liberatio to them in the first will could now be held to include debts they had first contracted after the making of the first will ; and whether , if the heirs were to sue them for that , they could be barred by an exceptio doli . |
| 2 | Though he was more like his old self , many suspected they were seeing him for the last time . |
| 3 | Before leaving he stood for a moment at the door and let his eyes range round the room as if he were seeing it for the first time . |
| 4 | If you were seeing it for the first time , what impressions would you receive ? |
| 5 | Erm , last year , we were given it for free , erm |
| 6 | That being so , it is also likely that they were building it for the same military purpose . |
| 7 | while country areas were bracing themselves for the influx of tragic refugees or louse-infested slave labour , depending on the children 's luck . |
| 8 | There was a disco where beer was on sale but thoughts of dancing the night away evaporated when we found other people were using it for sleeping . |
| 9 | That is , they were conscious of the rule , and rather than following it out of obligation , they were using it for their own benefit , as a sort of ‘ officializing ’ or ‘ universalizing ’ strategy in order to ‘ cloak themselves in legitimation ’ . |
| 10 | In their view the Commission were giving Article 100A an unduly wide construction and were using it for proposals which should properly have been based on some alternative Article of the EEC Treaty , such as Article 100 or Article 235 , which required unanimity in the Council . |
| 11 | We were using it for drunk driving offenders and repeat traffic offenders , not so much because I felt they were the only people who were appropriate for it , but because we wanted to make sure we started with a group who were not likely to get into major trouble should the project not work out . |
| 12 | erm People were bringing it for us , friends were bringing it into us . |
| 13 | WHILE Harlequins were yesterday contemplating the Mystery of the Missing Lock , Leicester , the club they beat in Saturday 's Pilkington Cup semi-finals , were gearing themselves for another wearing match tonight . |
| 14 | There is a certain grudging margin , to be sure , about all that Mr Eliot writes — as if he were compensating himself for his limitations by a peevish assumption of superiority . |
| 15 | While all you fairweather golfers were fattening yourselves for the spring sunshine , I was running 15 miles a week in an effort to gain the necessary fitness for a 27-tournament season . |
| 16 | If you were protecting me for my own good , she thought , I would be cross with you , but not this cross . |
| 17 | I wondered if they passed that Trade Union ( positive vetting ) file over to someone else or whether they were keeping it for my return . |
| 18 | And he said the they were pressing him for completion that very minute . |
| 19 | She had stayed there , always conscious that she was preparing herself for an existence of unutterable boredom , and was one of an enormous number of women who were training themselves for an ‘ if I do n't marry ’ life . |
| 20 | At the Taj , Indian families were grouping themselves for the professional photographers who swarmed over the central platform . |
| 21 | She glanced up at him , feeling oddly shy , almost as though she were meeting him for the first time with no doubts , no mistrust , between them . |
| 22 | Marion asked me other day what we were saving them for , I said well we saved them oh I remember ! |
| 23 | ‘ I thought it would be best if Mr Challow were to help you for a bit , Miss Broome , ’ said Mervyn , ‘ while he 's getting settled down , that is . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Naturally , but you 'd still have to say what the story was before you were offered anything for it . ’ |
| 25 | Me auntie got it up there and when she got up there they were selling them for nineteen pounds . |
| 26 | Inhabitants of Pripyat , the town nearest to the reactor , were told nothing for 36 hours , and not tested for signs of radiation sickness until much later . |
| 27 | Seventhly , if the German states were to express themselves for initiating movement toward German unity , would they be ready to take into consideration the interests of other European states and to seek , on a mutually acceptable collective basis , answers to all questions and problems that might arise in that regard ? |
| 28 | Indeed , a recurrent theme among these women was that they felt they had no right to benefit , that they were getting something for nothing , in marked contrast to a wage . |
| 29 | That was a great week because they felt they were getting it for nothing , till it come to the end of the quarter and then they had to pay it . |
| 30 | So they really were getting you for nothing . |