Example sentences of "[vb past] [was/were] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1969 Josef Frolik of the Czechoslovakian intelligence service defected to the CIA with his wife and proceeded to give some startling information about numerous British Labour Party politicians and trade union officials who he claimed were working for the KGB . |
| 2 | One negative control sampled was processed for every three tissue samples examined . |
| 3 | In Scotland as a whole and in Edinburgh in particular , working-class women and girls mostly found themselves in work that in some sense extended their domestic role : housework , laundry , sewing , while better-educated middle-class women who worked were caring for the young and the sick as teachers and nurses . |
| 4 | What I saw was staggering for the line which passed through those three points apparently intersected three others — a standing stone , just off the Marlborough Road , a bi-section of two round barrows — the line passed cleanly through the narrow gap between them , and finally the most important of all — the west end of the West Kennet long barrow . |
| 5 | The form this took was to call for a jihad , or holy war , against the US forces and the overthrow of Saudi King Fahd and President Mubarak of Egypt . |
| 6 | ‘ Do you remember last year when your cousin Hamed was looking for a bride ? ’ |
| 7 | The only solution I had was to pay for the guy , bring the piece into my own workshop and re-do the top completely . |
| 8 | The choice of the latter led Leavis , to whom I sent the paper later , to expostulate , but at that time I thought that Read was heading for an eminence which , at least as a creative writer , he never attained . |