Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv prt] for an " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was turned down for an insurance policy on the grounds that he was too old . |
| 2 | One of these latter patients ( no 13 ) was operated on for an obstructive small bowel relapse and in this patient , as in the two others , gastroscopy and chest computed tomography showed both lung and gastric recurrences . |
| 3 | I recall my own final visit to the farm where he was allowed down for an hour and where the flame was rekindled for that period sufficiently for us to forget his illness and think only that the old Nye had been restored . |
| 4 | Warrington maintained their revival with a convincing 30–18 victory over St Helens on Saturday even though Kevin Ellis was sent off for an alleged trip . |
| 5 | The start of trading on the New York and American Stock Exchanges was held up for an hour yesterday after a fire , caused by an electrical fault , broke out in the building housing the exchanges ' computer systems , writes Mary Brasier in New York . |