Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | At eighteen , I was called up for the Army and I was three years there . |
| 2 | Yes I was looking around for your dog |
| 3 | I was weeping bitterly for most of the time . |
| 4 | He thought I was lashing about for excuses . |
| 5 | What I was holding out for hung on a pretty slender thread and I could n't let my life be dominated by it . |
| 6 | I was sent away for life , and they 'll hang me if they discover I 've come back . ’ |
| 7 | I was sit there for twenty five minutes for you . |
| 8 | It 's just that there are some things the mind-set is not adjusted to and I was tuned in for bracing winds , long place names and snatches of Tom Jones . |
| 9 | I liked to find my own stories — and I was just beginning to place the best of them in national papers when I was whisked off for two years ' National Service . |
| 10 | I had been asked to teach a course of lectures at the Teachers ’ College , which is the only place in NZ to run a speech therapy course ( run jointly with the university ) ; so I was staying on for an extra 4 weeks , while the others ( except Ned , who was also staying in Christchurch with his job ) headed for Auckland to fly home . |
| 11 | ‘ I was getting on for thirty years of age , with the retarded emotions of an adolescent , and the only excuse I have is that I 'd spent most of my youth pursuing excellence rather than women . ’ |
| 12 | I was operated on for the first time when I was two or three weeks old . |
| 13 | After Seve 's win at Lytham I was worn out for a week . |
| 14 | I was taken there for the first time when I was six weeks old in a motor side car down from London to just within ten miles of Bury St Edmunds . |
| 15 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 16 | I was expected home for my husband only in the evenings . |
| 17 | And er I was put up for the committee and was successful and sat on the committee for quite a number of years . |
| 18 | ‘ I was walking back for over an hour through deserted streets . |
| 19 | ‘ I was waiting up for you . ’ |
| 20 | The Inspector left it at that and as I was waiting expectantly for the interview to end , he said : ‘ Why does an educated man like you spend his time caddying ? |
| 21 | On another occasion when I was holed up for two days in a tiny cottage in Snowdonia while it poured with rain , an ordnance survey map , my first hand knowledge of the area and an illustrated catalogue of Turner 's work allowed me to prepare for locating the sites where he worked . |
| 22 | I was laid up for five weeks , could n't do any work whatsoever and just sleep , cuss the family , be generally grumpy , tired and achy . |
| 23 | ‘ Sorry , yes , I was carried away for a moment there . |
| 24 | It seems to me that this is something on which er not en passant but within the flow of his report Dr Stuart mentioned something of great importance and I was jotting down for myself , by way of aide memoire , membership , Madagascar , ministry of the whole people of God , three Ms as it were . |
| 25 | It was about five years later when I was going away for a weekend and knowing that space in the car would be limited , I spent a long time thinking what sketching materials to take which would not need much room . |
| 26 | I had to consciously tell myself what I was going in for and not to use the trip downstairs as an excuse to have a ‘ little ’ rest on the sofa after my thirty-four minutes of hard work . |
| 27 | I told them I told that I was going home for good when the sister hurted herself . |
| 28 | Erm , because I was going out for half past two and er , she rang , she says he has n't rung yet so I assume he 's going to be home . |
| 29 | I was coming straight for you , ’ I panted , misting up the inside of my face visor . |
| 30 | I was feeling around for his safe-wrenching tool , |