Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] for [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the comrades were prepared for everything the class enemy could throw at them . |
| 2 | You imagine that if I were to catalogue for you the incidents of my life , and tell you all my memories , you would come to know me better . |
| 3 | S/L Paul Millikin was pressed for what the future held for the aircraft , to one question he replied ‘ I do n't know if there is talk from Whitehall … nobody tells me anything ! ’ |
| 4 | There was a car waiting , but because of the fog they abandoned the idea of driving down and went to the railway station , caught a train with minutes to spare , picked up the car that was waiting for them the other end , rang the studio from the car phone to let them know where they were , and ran into London Weekend Television . |
| 5 | The instructions which Mr. Tucker gave to the Burnham sub-branch made it clear that the bank was retaining for itself the responsibility of explaining to Mrs. O'Brien the effect and nature of the documents she was to sign . |
| 6 | At a later interview he was asked for what the Nobel had been awarded ; Eliot replied that he assumed it was for " the entire corpus " and the reporter asked , " When did you publish that ? " |