Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] was [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1971 I was hoping for great things , because the British Open was at Birkdale , my home-course , but Tom could n't handle Birkdale . |
| 2 | It was never clear who was to blame for starting the niggles , but there could be no argument that , on the day , the Taiwanese were the better team . |
| 3 | Four thousand years ago a funeral pyre like this one was built for a woman who was either heavily pregnant or recently delivered of a child . |
| 4 | Four thousand years ago a funeral pyre like this one was built for a woman who was either heavily pregnant or who who had recently had of a child . |
| 5 | ‘ This one was given for sheer hard work and physical labour . ’ |
| 6 | This one was done for driving without due care and attention and he got the maximum fine . |
| 7 | Therefore no more is needed for an event to be an effect , at least in so far as relations of conditionality are concerned , than that the event was such that another one was required for it . |
| 8 | The one-piece oscar went to a Leiston man for £105 and the broken one was sold for an amazing £85 . |
| 9 | First licensed by Bishop Lacey of Exeter in 1436 it was used for special intercession by barren women seeking fertility . |
| 10 | Part of the trouble was that the information which colleges needed for their own purpose was on a scale different from that which was called for by local authorities and by the DES . |
| 11 | The staff drifted in slowly , and finally at around ten-thirty everyone was accounted for . |
| 12 | In 1892 it was offered for sale , as having two water wheels and two steam engines , driving eight pairs of stones . |
| 13 | A week later , having applied for jobs with three firms , Leith heard that two of the vacancies were filled , but she was lucky in the third in that she was called for interview . |
| 14 | so it was , even then , it was summer after that she was trying for Em , it was two years after . |
| 15 | Later she was to think how little she was prepared for the simple events which were to change her life completely — indeed she would have said that so much had happened to her already that any further incidents must be minor , a judgement which could not have been more faulty . |
| 16 | The lorry driver and a woman pedestrian were treated for shock , and heat-seeking cameras searched the rubble for other casualties , but Cornwall fire brigade said later everyone was accounted for . |
| 17 | In the summer of 1940 he was volunteered for parachute training by friends who added his name to a list for this course . |
| 18 | Dan realised with growing dismay that at forty-six he was qualified for nothing . |
| 19 | Some of them more than that one was advertised for . |
| 20 | That one was taken for us at Kristof Laszlo 's studio — you 'd have to ask him about it . ’ |
| 21 | When I meet women from other countries and they talk about Western feminism and Third World feminism , I did n't see it that way at all I was looking for a political party and I found that I could n't find any which suited my political beliefs and a party that combined Third World and British issues . |
| 22 | ‘ That 's all I was watching for . |
| 23 | If I 'd have been on me own I mean that 's all I was waiting for , mine to grow up so I could clear off . |
| 24 | One slip of the tongue would have betrayed all I was working for . |
| 25 | It was at that moment that Fabia was shaken to realise that all she was looking for was an excuse to be in touch with him again . |
| 26 | We were in Verbier in March 1990 with our two sons aged 9 and 11 , both good skiers , and a daughter of 4 who was skiing for the first time . |
| 27 | they sat inside the hut beside a fire of thin bamboo , all there was to burn for firewood this high up above the treeline . |
| 28 | In July 1964 he was fined for singing the Irish national anthem , ‘ A Soldier 's Song ’ ( in Irish ) at a republican rally in Ballycastle , County Antrim . |
| 29 | All he was waiting for was confirmation . |
| 30 | It was called the TV room because all it was used for was to watch television . |