Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er I thought you did well in erm giving yourself credibility by talking about the shares , oh yes you can have two hundred and fifty pounds per month in the shares and they 've done well and I said oh yes they have done well , and I felt good that you were praising me up for being such a clever chap , and so I thought that was all , all jolly good stuff . |
| 2 | ‘ They were taking us out for meals . |
| 3 | During the late 1920s and early 1930s when John Maynard Keynes ( 1883–1946 ) was working out a new economic system where government intervention would stabilise the negative effects of free enterprise — low investment , acute unemployment — individualist man and collectivist man were fighting it out for supremacy . |
| 4 | The boss said you were to take her out for as long as you wanted , sir . |
| 5 | He was not using it to further his own human development , he was using it up for the profit of the people who paid him , the anonymous shareholders and their abstract interests . |
| 6 | At her worst , on the third night , faint from lack of food , her throat parched with thirst , she had a crazy idea that the storm was singling her out for punishment , was expending its venom to get at her . |
| 7 | We have been starved of second-hand cars because nobody was trading them in for new ones , but this should change that . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Then I shall get a train in the opposite direction , ’ he said , thinking that there was something sad about it , especially now that she was thanking him politely for the drinks . |
| 9 | He was saving it up for a rainy day . |
| 10 | The 1992 Coca-Cola International was awarded World Cup status for the second consecutive year , and organiser Desi McHenry was offered it again for this year if he could change the date , something he was unfortunately unable to do . |
| 11 | Well I was getting you back for one ! |
| 12 | It felt too much as if she was shunting him off for her own convenience , even though she knew that it was the only sane and sensible thing to do . |
| 13 | Mike was holding it up for Mr. Rowbotham to see . |
| 14 | He was doing it specially for them . |
| 15 | I thought he was taking her away for ever . |
| 16 | The same sort of ‘ business ’ that was taking him away for ten days . |
| 17 | Erm so he ju he was taking it over for a couple of weeks . |
| 18 | He was behind ee he had the brains , and was carrying it out for him , cos erm this erm I du n no if you know him eh , he runs this quarry to us up here . |
| 19 | And he he caught her the other day , she was putting them out for the birds , she do n't like them but she said . |
| 20 | No doubt this ‘ concession ’ was to soften him up for the next examination . |
| 21 | She was n't quite sure what he was summing her up for but he was certainly doing that . |
| 22 | All I did was turn me back for a minute and it was . |