Example sentences of "[noun] was [prep] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you remember , Luke Scott was with us for six months as a favour to the station 's director-general , who was a friend of his , because our listenership figures were dropping and we were losing advertising . |
| 2 | Cos an oil engine was in it for a while and then they put a new diesel engine in I think it would be nineteen thirty nine or something . |
| 3 | And it says in this booklet that W H was for one for a period , the prospective Labour candidate for er Central , as was then . |
| 4 | ‘ One of our sons was with us for eight months before going away to the other end of the earth — I could n't even phone him . |
| 5 | In fact he and then Craigie from Rowsay was in it for a while . |
| 6 | My brother was with her for a long while . |
| 7 | The example of Dad Uzzell was before him for the rest of his life . |