Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] i for " in BNC.

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1 Wedding and funeral forms , sent in by the families , were passed to me for transposing into the accepted cliches .
2 I well remember a little cardigan from a High Street store that was given to me for my ( then ) six-month-old baby .
3 I felt he was vying with me for proprietary rights over Jean-Claude .
4 ‘ Car number one was bought by me for two hundred and seventy-eight pounds and sold for one thousand four hundred and twenty-five .
5 Attracted by my outcry , the thing was flopping towards me for a closer look .
6 I wondered if she was talking to me for a minute .
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