Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you were in for 9 in the morning , you were out at 9.30 and the other fellow must not book in till 9.31 a.m . |
| 2 | So you were in for ten minutes and rushed them out and out again then |
| 3 | Four were down for 112 before Best and Richards took the score to 192 . |
| 4 | Once again , the Saturday 's play was washed out , but on Monday morning five wickets were down for 100 and , with Lloyd having badly pulled a hamstring while fielding , the follow-on definitely loomed . |
| 5 | Gooch won an important toss , put West Indies in , and before long five wickets were down for 29 . |
| 6 | After the opposition were out for 171 , the CCG team reached the required total with two overs to spare , largely thanks to an opening stand of 95 by Jeremy Hook and Philip McKenna . |
| 7 | They were out for two or three minutes , during which no one in the hall spoke . |
| 8 | I was not thinking of the fact that two New Zealanders were out for 99 , which is stupid and by no means a Test match first , nor to the fact that seven of England 's XI were born outside Britain . |
| 9 | Ho how in fact di di did you keep on go you said mentioned you were out for seven months . |
| 10 | Harrow had grounds for confidence at tea when they were more than half way there but Martin , taking six for 43 with his slow left-armers continued to attack and Harrow were out for 194 with a few minutes left , despite a valiant 97 from Charles Danby . |
| 11 | Leek out , had this heart trouble , and he 'd been in the Signals about oh ten year , he , he was on for twelve engagement and he nearly completed it when he had this heart trouble . |
| 12 | I was in for two weeks , during which I had a wide variety of tests . |
| 13 | Robinson was in for ten years for armed robbery , while his companion was half-way through a twelve-year stretch for a similar crime . |
| 14 | Woke up one morning and I was in for twenty thousand . |
| 15 | He was in for three hours 40 minutes all told , an hour longer than any other West Indian managed , and gave only one chance , a difficult caught and bowled to Meyrick Pringle when 59 . |
| 16 | But then more wickets fell , and the eighth was down for 103 ; only for Logie and Bishop to put on 74 for the ninth wicket , and when Logie was last man out just two short of a well-deserved hundred , the score was 199 . |
| 17 | The last really bad one was in 1978 when the electricity was off for four days . |
| 18 | Yes but the , the general ones we 've got in those flip you know when I was off , when I had my cartilage removed in my knee , well I was off for six weeks so I got all the photographs and put them in order , the children and us , you know ? |
| 19 | A horse who has had his problems , Royal Athlete was off for two seasons , but in 1990 he won over the Mildmay fences at Liverpool after having fallen when backed favourite at Cheltenham . |
| 20 | One of his main rivals is Royal Athlete who was off for two seasons before returning this term and running a tremendous race when third in the Cheltenham Gold Cup . |
| 21 | So if I was off for two or three years then the rate of inflation was high , then it would be ten per cent each those years |
| 22 | He was off for ten weeks . |
| 23 | One of my colleagues went up to D 's cottage last weekend and PK was up for eight days about a fortnight ago , and had a really super week and not bad weather though there was a lot of snow at the roadsides on their way back — she went with current boyfriend , a nice chap who lives in Midlands . |
| 24 | The England captain was out for eight — his middle stump uprooted — as a second innings collapse to 34 for three left his side struggling to avoid a 3-0 Test series whitewash . |
| 25 | Fifty for one , Botham was out for eight |
| 26 | The actor was out for seventy-five big ones . |
| 27 | I was out for four and a half months , then I gave myself up because I was carrying my daughter , Sasha . |
| 28 | On the last day the jury was out for thirty minutes . |
| 29 | He was out for 18 months and in that time , he believes standards declined . |
| 30 | And we felt that team two have gone the other way , tha that the work spread out and actually when you looked at the , at the project plan at the back , erm that in fact a surveyor was out for six hundred and eighty three DOPACS units which is about ten days and that had spread all through May , June and July . |