Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Like a , a good example the , the the ninety three one , the ninety two one rather this year was a good example because there was erm a titanic battle in Old Harlow where the leader of the council Richard was up for re- election . |
| 3 | Fish and chips , council housing , State pensions and holidays at home were out for all the young . |
| 4 | But within months , he was telling friends his marriage was over for good . |
| 5 | McNamara already had the first spot in the bag and Moniz was out , so the battle was on for second place . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The actor was out for seventy-five big ones . |
| 8 | Robinson was in for ten years for armed robbery , while his companion was half-way through a twelve-year stretch for a similar crime . |
| 9 | Stephen , a softly spoken Mike Tyson lookalike , had kicked someone into a coma , Michelle was serving an indefinite life sentence for torching her victim , Tony tried to blow up his father and Lizzie was in for armed robbery . |
| 10 | Fifty for one , Botham was out for eight |
| 11 | The following Tuesday he was contacted at work to say that the jump was on for that afternoon . |
| 12 | Certain people were out for other and more sinister designs . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | On the last day the jury was out for thirty minutes . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Downton and Emburey kept him company for a while , and when number eleven Dilley joined him he had 69 ; when Dilley was out for 2 next morning Willey had completed his century , a splendid 102 not out that took England to 271 , Croft finishing with 6 for 74 . |
| 19 | With construction costs for purpose-built vessels so high , the hunt was on for production-type boats that would keep within reasonable limits of the budget . |
| 20 | ‘ Charles was up for most of the night . |
| 21 | Every year on the Wednesday evening , after going up to bed , I used to stand at my window and gaze towards the fair some five hundred yards away , watching the flickering lights and hearing the screams and music , feeling quite sad that the show was over for another year . |
| 22 | The last really bad one was in 1978 when the electricity was off for four days . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Gooch won an important toss , put West Indies in , and before long five wickets were down for 29 . |
| 25 | 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 . |