Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But er I was away for a week there , I only came back on Saturday . |
| 2 | The first the first half a year that I was Holland I I do n't think I was away for a holiday , but then the the next Summer then I was away . |
| 3 | ‘ I got a lot of response from the article and my request for someone to move into my home and look after the children while I was away for the eight months in Bristol , ’ she said . |
| 4 | She said , ‘ I was indoors for a bit . |
| 5 | Then I was up for a second — and the next wave hit me . ’ |
| 6 | ANNETTE BENING : ‘ I was up for the part of a prostitute in Dangerous Liaisons , the one whose backside John Malkovich uses to write a letter . |
| 7 | It was terrible , I 'd always been independent , or when I was n't for a while I got my own social security money . |
| 8 | I was along for the ride . |
| 9 | Most of the Labour front bench , including Neil Kinnock , were in their places and the predictions were that I was in for a stormy time . |
| 10 | We just had to sit there all day on our own , and I was in for a couple of weeks . |
| 11 | ‘ That big yellow beast did this while I was out for a swim . ’ |
| 12 | I was off for a week which is alright , but during that week I was heavily doped on downers . |
| 13 | ‘ I was there for a while , ’ she said pointedly but she was careful not to press too much . |
| 14 | ‘ I was there for a long time , but I ca n't remember anyone visiting me . |
| 15 | So a week later I moved in , and I was there for a year-and-a-half . |
| 16 | So then when I got back to erm er St Giles erm I was there for a month and then I went into a home for the blind and handicapped |
| 17 | But I wa but I was there for a fortnight and when I came back I , you know it 's preparing for Synod just takes all the time we have somehow and I |
| 18 | Bet you never even noticed I was there for the first three years . " |
| 19 | And I was there for the erm oh about fourteen months in all with the shooting . |
| 20 | I was there for the full week , being lucky enough to have a brother living in Crosby , so was able to take in most of the events and sights of interest , as well as having the pleasure of meeting old comrades at the Cunard Building |
| 21 | A very considerable number of sub-licences which were normally for a period of six to 12 months were granted during the relevant years of assessment and the aggregate profit therefrom during these years amounted to some HK$57m . |
| 22 | Shildon had excused his initial omissions on the grounds that he had concealed that he was engaged in work which was not for the business section . |
| 23 | This included having to study rod sizes , materials and changes in the amounts of electrical current to see how the effect depended on these , which was all for the future . |
| 24 | When Mr Wormwood arrived back from the garage that evening his face was as dark as a thunder-cloud and somebody was clearly for the high-jump pretty soon . |
| 25 | In 1985 in Washington DC I was responsible for the security co-ordination of eleven prime ministers and twenty other Conservative party leaders from around the world who were there for the International Democrat Union Party Leaders ' meeting . |
| 26 | We had a bachelor party on board , who were out for a little merrymaking : an island marriage ball had wooed them from the desk of the counting-house , and having had a taste of the free air of these parts , and being good fellows well met , a few more days of healthful roving have a gleeful appendix to the gaieties of the wedding . |
| 27 | Mrs Hardy , of Tower Hill , Chipperfield , was found crawling through undergrowth in the woods yesterday morning by two women who were out for a walk . |
| 28 | " We thought you were away for the week-end , " she said . |
| 29 | ‘ Only to an expert in family relationships — and I know you were away for the weekend ! ’ |
| 30 | " Take these ; an annotated Gray 's Anatomy , some Freud — at least it 'll prove you were here for a reason if nothing else . " |