Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought it would be best if Mr Challow were to help you for a bit , Miss Broome , ’ said Mervyn , ‘ while he 's getting settled down , that is . ’ |
| 2 | And the fact that they were doing it for a great deal more money , like Havvie Blaine , rather than for supper and a few pence , did n't make it any better . |
| 3 | The Smiths were priming themselves for a spell in the top five . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , the Chancellor was bracing himself for a furious political storm when he unveils his autumn package on Thursday , including a mystery ‘ fiscal package ’ ministers are remaining tight-lipped about . |
| 5 | The city was bracing itself for a party to beat them all , but the Spaniards decided to re-write the script . |
| 6 | I had no idea she was using me for a purpose of her own : I was too naive to realise until it dawned on me what it was , a few weeks later . |
| 7 | He said that he believed he had lawful authority to ride the bike because he was repairing it for a friend . |
| 8 | Mrs Verity 's expenditure turned out to be far more than she guessed and their decisions were also affected because the bank was overcharging them for a time . |
| 9 | He had no time for the cant of the priests about sin , but he knew , as he lay in the barracks hearing the grunts and panting of his companions , that he was honing himself for a superior form by refusing his body . |
| 10 | The old man was begging him for a dime to buy a cup of coffee . |
| 11 | As chance would have it we were going camping with another family whose father was to accompany me for a day 's climbing on Pillar . |
| 12 | There was a much-told tale of her Australian infancy that was held to be prophetic in this respect — about how at the age of three she had , by the sheer force of her will , compelled her uncle Walter ( who was taking her for a walk to the local shops at the time ) to put all the money he had on his person into a charity collecting-box in the shape of a plaster-of-Paris boy cripple ; as a result of which the uncle , too embarrassed to admit to this folly and borrow from his relatives , had run out of petrol on the way back to his sheep station . |
| 13 | The woman was taking him for a ride , working on him to get what she wanted , and that included Lissa 's destruction . |
| 14 | He was preparing himself for a British Council tour of France but it was cancelled at the last moment ; he did , however , fly to Amsterdam and then on to Rome in December under the auspices of the same organization . |
| 15 | He practically had me signed up for the European Monetary System when all I wanted was to touch him for a gold moidore . |
| 16 | He was raising it for a second hit when Nancy rushed forward and , seizing the piece of wood , threw it into the fire . |