Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | After instruction in the regulations of the ‘ prison ’ the volunteers were placed in it for nearly a week , and their reactions and behaviour observed . |
| 2 | In that case the railway company had carried the parcels of other persons at a rate less than similar parcels were carried by it for the plaintiff . |
| 3 | For example , if someone gave as their hobbies on their CV only reading and chess , and they were applying to you for a job where they would be working with the public , might you not have doubts about that person ? |
| 4 | It is almost as if they were lent to us for their infancy and formative years , and are then entirely free to go their own way . |
| 5 | Men were to talk of it for many years to come . |
| 6 | The Court of Appeal held that the jurisdiction clause was not binding on B. The way the documents were presented to him for signature was misleading : B was entitled to assume that the two copies of the terms were identical . |
| 7 | He was just about to shrug off the question with ‘ I du n no ’ when he noticed that George and the twins were looking at him for an answer . |
| 8 | He knew the pattern of the carpet by heart but now it was as if he were looking at it for the first time , taking it all in , the design of orange and black squares . |
| 9 | Having delivered Eliot to those who were looking after him for the night , we walked back to our colleges discussing the evening , with the ardour of youth which included that most interesting of contests , the comparison of recollections . |
| 10 | George made a long thinking , grumbling noise , then said , mostly to himself : ‘ The paperwork must have been good … if they were living on it for eighteen months … they were n't escaped prisoners of war trying to reach Switzerland on a hand-copied Fremdenpass … |
| 11 | I recently heard of a family who invited to church some friends who were staying with them for the weekend . |
| 12 | In general Wilson and Stewart were complimented on the political assistance they were providing in what for them was an " agonisingly difficult " situation . |
| 13 | Bales of material of every type and hue were spread before her for her approval . |
| 14 | I were talking to her for about half an hour . |
| 15 | So that one really is telling a story , commemorating something in Danish history , when they were fighting for their for their freedom . |
| 16 | When final plans were put to him for approval , however , he had changed his mind . |
| 17 | Wedding and funeral forms , sent in by the families , were passed to me for transposing into the accepted cliches . |
| 18 | He had about a dozen lorries on the road , and machines er working the roads there , all they were working for nothing for him , these lads and he 'd come along and before Christmas he 'd stop a couple of them , just before Christmas , he used to do that every year . |
| 19 | He was irritated with himself for being so pathetic . |
| 20 | She was irritated with herself for thinking like a spy , for slipping into Urquhart 's world of suspicion and conspiracy , and as she became more irritated with herself , she became sharp with her companion . |
| 21 | She was irritated with herself for feeling nervous . |
| 22 | Nothing was heard of them for fifteen years . |
| 23 | I well remember a little cardigan from a High Street store that was given to me for my ( then ) six-month-old baby . |
| 24 | If so , it was at Combwich ( pronounced ‘ Cummage ’ ) that Coleridge first set foot within that secluded , forgotten territory , bounded by the Quantock Hills and a bleakly impressive coastline , which was to remain with him for the rest of his life . |
| 25 | His first column , under the generic strap-line ‘ Sitting on the Fence ’ , appeared on 30 November 1930 on page 3 — a star position — and under his new by-line , Nathaniel Gubbins , which was to remain with him for life . |
| 26 | I was to write about it for Cosmopolitan , she for Trud ; it was the first time she had been outside the Soviet bloc . |
| 27 | Last I heard she was living with her for . |
| 28 | I felt he was vying with me for proprietary rights over Jean-Claude . |
| 29 | Signora ! ’ as a ripe fruit or some trinket or other was thrust before her for her inspection . |
| 30 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |