Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was always a long wait for an appointment , sometimes up to a month , and women were only kept in for 24 hours if it was a normal birth . |
| 2 | The Moroccan restaurants that I tried were obviously set up for tourists . |
| 3 | For these cruel rituals the most wicked and depraved of ‘ Satan 's felines ’ were strongly preferred and all-black cats were eagerly sought out for the flames . |
| 4 | So no voter who gave Craig a second preference could be sure that it would actually be registered , for his paper could be one of the 3,813 — 1,476 = 2,337 that were not picked out for transfer . |
| 5 | Patients were usually followed up for at least 6 months after the last event . |
| 6 | Where inmates were once locked up for 23 hours everyday a more liberal attitude now prevails . |
| 7 | Such relative positions were clearly set out for me in chains of metaphoric relevance , with ‘ real polises ’ largely symbolized by the use of the body and its social and physical space . |
| 8 | This affluence was made possible not only by higher wages ( in real terms ) but because new mass markets in non-essential goods were also opened up for the population at large . |
| 9 | After dinner we continued to fiddle around with tackle and were joined by Mr. Ferguson and his son , Paul , who were also booked in for the same week . |
| 10 | These rabbits were probably fattened up for some special occasion . |
| 11 | It was dark and well stormy by the time I got to the Aurora Corona Rest Home and the residents were probably battened down for the night . |
| 12 | We had been conducting the German youths on tours of our favourite places in the city — to the bullring , the restaurants , the bars , the River Tormes , the Casa de Santa Teresa , the Antiguo Colegio Mayor de Iriandeses , San Martin ( where we were nearly locked in for the night ) and to the conventual church of San Esteban . |
| 13 | It was cold and windy and yet we were often called out for help in the spasmodic raids on South Kensington and Chelsea . |
| 14 | Black people can be denied eligibility by rules which were originally drawn up for completely different purposes ; property let to ethnic minorities tends to be of lower quality than that allocated to the white population ; and black families , which tend to be larger , may not find council accommodation which is large enough for their needs ( Brown , 1984 ) . |
| 15 | were n't buggered up for all the characters . |
| 16 | The parents of one family were n't taken in for questioning at all that day , but Mrs W was . |
| 17 | After Nightmare in the Netherlands , it was great for me to be at a happy , good-tempered game where the sun shone brightly and we were n't held back for an hour by ugly policemen with argumentative dogs and bolshie attitudes . |
| 18 | Casual thefts , which were increasingly carried out for beef , accounted for a minority of stolen cattle except in districts where there was no organized stealing . |
| 19 | Over 75% of respondents to the survey said that distribution and hotline services were good ( Tiptree and Penguin were consistently singled out for special praise ) , and that wholesalers were outstandingly efficient . |
| 20 | Talybont were then sent back for 109 , Wheeler hitting 33 not out and Simon Lloyd Williams 31 . |
| 21 | Police marksmen were then drafted in for a 12 hour siege after he barricaded himself in . |
| 22 | Green and McCrory were allegedly brought back for the Norris murder . |
| 23 | When half of the goods were subsequently put up for sale by auction , they realised £309 . |
| 24 | The wheel was never repaired and was eventually broken up for scrap . |
| 25 | Haynes was eventually run out for 62 and left the field in tears thinking he had lost his team the match , but by then only three more were needed and Roberts was striking the ball well . |
| 26 | After US obstruction , a Committee of the Board of Governors of the IMF was eventually set up for this purpose late in 1972 . |
| 27 | It would make things far worse for him when he was eventually brought up for trial . |
| 28 | It belonged almost in its entirety to Kenneth Horne , around whom the show was built , but there was enough left over for the supporting players , Betty Marsden , Hugh Paddick , Bill Pertwee and Ken , all of whom built up their own individual following . |
| 29 | ‘ It was all set up for us on Tuesday night , yet we went out to their only effort on goal . |
| 30 | But Peter Hickton was only slowed down for a moment . |