Example sentences of "[was/were] [det] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were each held for an instant in the other 's dubious quiz . |
| 2 | He may have shared in the Puritan tendency of Cranbrook ; his published works were all printed for the London theological bookseller , Philemon Stephens , and produced in the early 1650s , at a time when publication in both the learned languages and the vernacular greatly increased . |
| 3 | When we did The Taming of the Shrew , every time Petruchio yelled — and he had a fine voice — all the peacocks answered , and on the opening night I could feel my neighbour shaking with laughter because the peacocks were all jostling for the best places to roost in the trees . |
| 4 | They were all written for The Lord of the Rings alone . |
| 5 | Norse , Irish , and Norman elements were all competing for an advantage , and the future of the Canterbury claims , which seemed so bright in Anselm 's lifetime , depended too much on obscure cross-currents of political ambition to be assured . |
| 6 | This happened once while I was at Binbrook , and we were all jailed for a week — well , con fined to our quarters , really , but it amounted to the same thing . |
| 7 | 360 , when they were all demolished for the erection of a stone corridor villa and a large barn . |
| 8 | In-service training , weekly group meetings and monthly supervision sessions were all provided for the home care aides . |
| 9 | SIX MONTHS ago , we were all waiting for The Stone Roses to crossover into the US charts — that was the talk . |
| 10 | SIX MONTHS ago , we were all waiting for The Stone Roses to crossover into the US charts — that was the talk . |
| 11 | I understand they were both hoping for a child , as well as his in-laws . |
| 12 | WHelan did nt look out of place , but in this match I feel that he and Deane were both looking for the same balls and not really working as a pair . |
| 13 | So strong was this hankering for the Gothic and everything that went with it that many of them refused even to look at nature first-hand , but looked at it through a special lens called a Claude-glass , Claude being a French painter of the Gothic who designed his glass especially for looking at ancient ruins and alpine chasms . |
| 14 | ‘ It was enough to fish for an hour and then go home . |