Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was practised in ancient Egypt and in Greece , and for ordinary people these special dreams were relied on for their curative powers more than their predictive value . |
| 2 | Publishers were looked to for far more support than in the past , as the following interview comments show : ‘ There 's a change from the past , when we used worksheets predominantly , with textbooks just for backup . |
| 3 | All sorts of dodges were resorted to for ‘ surrendering ’ property . |
| 4 | And end up the same circumstances we was now , er with out the stuff that we 'd we were paying for for the next six months of the year . |
| 5 | The Court of Appeal held that those transactions were valid so far as they were entered into for the purposes of interest rate risk management and not for trading purposes . |
| 6 | In proportionate terms this represents an increase from 15 per cent to 24 per cent of all defendants who were proceeded against for either way offences over the same period ( Home Office , 1990 : Table 4.5 , 1990f : Table 6.3 ) . |
| 7 | Of course the problems of distinguishing F from C , goat from sheep , are no worse than the problems teachers were faced with for years , when they had to separate O level candidates from those who would work for CSE . |
| 8 | Grateful thanks were recorded to for her excellent representation over the past four years . |
| 9 | And we were working for for fourteen pound at that time . |
| 10 | But if , if libido was aroused by for example seduction in childhood it could go nowhere , it was repressed in the unconscious , where it transformed itself by some kind of psychological chemistry into anxiety . |
| 11 | But more frequently it arose that , in the absence of a policewoman , the female field-worker was relied upon for comfort by female members of the public , engaging her in eye contact to find what they expected would be a special ‘ feminine ’ understanding and reassurance . |
| 12 | were on the jury when was hanged at for murder . |
| 13 | This was something which has come out that an officer was told by for better , for truth or for untruth a year or so later . |
| 14 | I remember when Sarah Riddle was no more than a schoolgirl she was had up for … ’ |
| 15 | When poor Col. Griffin was laughed at for suggesting that Baptists establish a University in England , the laughter did not come from the descendants of Matthew Arnold who saw them as psalm-singing greengrocers , but from his fellow Baptists . |
| 16 | ( It reported in 1965 ; nothing was acted upon for about six years and even then very little was implemented . ) |
| 17 | To enjoy as much as she was going to for this time , she knew that , and she smiled and held him and kissed him when she felt the convulsion and heard his breath released . |
| 18 | When I replied that I had been fighting for the extra 200,000 I had managed to achieve , I was remonstrated with for having put the business at risk . |
| 19 | When this was in turn cleared in the early 1980s the site was disposed of for private construction . |
| 20 | But since marriage was entered into for reasons of social , political and financial convenience it was hardly possible to celebrate love except outside it . |
| 21 | The thing that worried many people about task allocation was that each client was descended upon for a succession of tasks by a succession of nurses . |
| 22 | As I as I was talking about for a new pattern |
| 23 | That was attached to for the July Course the Jockey Club runs a long way right near round on to the Swaffham Road , yeah see runs right up , right up to the Swaffham Road , you see . |