Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's like , hang on a minute , when we had our phone connected , none of us were up here for it . |
| 2 | Ah these are them anyway , cos them er curtains that were up there for ages were a right mess |
| 3 | Three routes were out forward for the first section and two for the southern section . |
| 4 | I watched the crew of a grubby Polish reefer vessel : they were taking pictures of each other against the background of the Gatun Locks ; three hours later , they were gazing with rapt attention at the passing majesty of Culebra ; their cameras were out again for the Pedro Miguel , for the distant flags of the American bases , for the Miraflores Locks , and for the immense red-white-and-blue bandera of the Panama Republic that waved lazily from the summit of Mount Ancon , over the old wooden houses of Panama City . |
| 5 | One girl had a fight and she was down there for weeks . |
| 6 | When I was down there for the weekend I was speaking their accent . |
| 7 | ‘ It is astounding that he was up there for all that time in such a busy area without anyone noticing , ’ said Det Insp Martyn Evans . |
| 8 | Steve was up there for half an hour while I shivered with cold and neurosis . |
| 9 | ‘ And yet he was up there for nearly a year , ’ said Viola , casting eyes heavenwards again , like Mr Stiggins speaking of rum . |
| 10 | I was up there for six weeks , I passed the course and was posted back to Brigade H Q to a wider posting to a regiment . |
| 11 | Muhammad went up the mountain — ; He was up there for more than an hour — |
| 12 | How can it be pulled out it was up there for ages |
| 13 | Chambers added a penalty goal for Banbridge after 15 minutes but Bangor were now well in control and Jeffrey McMaster almost got his name on the score sheet following a run down the left wing but he was stopped short and hooker Darryl Flanagan was up quickly for the try which Strutt converted . |
| 14 | Next day it was up early for the short trip to EuroDisney . |
| 15 | Seven months later he was back again for an operation to drain a build-up of fluid on his brain . |
| 16 | Its survival from two small circulating libraries shows its contemporary popularity , and the issue stamps still present in one of them show that it was out continuously for years . |
| 17 | And he was out there for about three years , he come back home and of cou just travelled the country , again working on the farms and that . |
| 18 | I remember sticking about when Jack Mills was out early for zero , and also collecting three first-innings wickets , including the two centurymakers , Ames and Allen . ’ |
| 19 | Honestly I was round there for a coffee the other day — actually wee Scott was awful quiet . |