Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] for [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 What could he do — what could anyone do — when a doctor was blamed for something of which he was not guilty ?
2 because it 's not the way that er it was designed for it , it was designed for something in which men pressed forward
3 Summing up a custom-made guitar , especially when it was made for no-one in particular , is a difficult task at the best of times .
4 P. Taylor has noted that Law was trained , if he was trained for anything in his early career , to be a debater .
5 It would work fine if the bass E head was changed for one with a shorter post , like that of the A string .
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