Example sentences of "[noun] was [adv prt] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The father was on for the whole of the second act of The Hooded Owl , and never had that part of the play passed as slowly as it did that evening . |
| 2 | School was over for the day and Sara had expected Jenny to arrive before this . |
| 3 | But in the country as a whole , the number of skiers was down for the third year running , and was no higher than 12 years ago ( see chart on next page ) . |
| 4 | Ms McCarthy was out for the evening with a friend , Stacey Gallacher , when they heard that acid house partygoers were meeting on Clapham Common . |
| 5 | The teachers could n't ask Frank where his mother might be because his class was out for the day on a Project Course . |