Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though he was more like his old self , many suspected they were seeing him for the last time . |
| 2 | Before leaving he stood for a moment at the door and let his eyes range round the room as if he were seeing it for the first time . |
| 3 | If you were seeing it for the first time , what impressions would you receive ? |
| 4 | That being so , it is also likely that they were building it for the same military purpose . |
| 5 | She glanced up at him , feeling oddly shy , almost as though she were meeting him for the first time with no doubts , no mistrust , between them . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | She made it sound as if she were saying it for the first time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The expletive sounded strange to the sergeant on Blanche 's lips , as if she were hearing it for the first time . |
| 10 | The repeated attacks of this last disease were to trouble him for the rest of his life . |
| 11 | She stood up and looked round the room as though she were leaving it for the last time . |
| 12 | The boyish expression transformed the hard planes of his face and she stared at him as if she was seeing him for the first time . |
| 13 | Since then , I had managed to film them on their wintering grounds in India , but now I was seeing them for the first time at the other end of the journey . |
| 14 | He gave her a long , slow look as if he was seeing her for the first time . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The order was for the production of material relating to the purchase by a client , Mrs G , of certain real property , the allegation being that she was a member of the family of another person who was suspected of being a drug trafficker and who was using her for the purpose of laundering the proceeds of such trafficking . |
| 17 | He said that he believed he had lawful authority to ride the bike because he was repairing it for a friend . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Owen knew from the title that this was a member of the Egyptian Royal Family but which of the Khedive 's numerous progeny it was escaped him for the moment . |
| 20 | Because i in , in theory presumably they s they should n't have been abusing their position , they should n't be gaining more because the whole point was to do it for the masses particularly , I mean if you were a Party cadre erm you should n't be getting more out of it than anybody else . |
| 21 | She was to keep it for the next three and a half years . |
| 22 | Meanwhile Dave had gone to pick up the boss from Stuttgart Airport as he was joining us for the weekend . |
| 23 | I was doing them for the wrong reasons — out of curiosity or for the money , rather than because I had a passion for doing them . |
| 24 | I mean you could say in this situation the stag was doing it for the benefit of the species but er you do n't need to er you do n't need to take that point of view . |
| 25 | I did think I was doing it for the best . |
| 26 | I was doing it for the drive anyway . |
| 27 | That way , he would be left alone without worrying why no one was asking him for an autograph . |
| 28 | The old man was begging him for a dime to buy a cup of coffee . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |