Example sentences of "[was/were] in [pron] [noun sg] for " in BNC.

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1 The applicant , a member of the Tax Bar , had been served with notices under the Taxes Management Act 1970 requiring him to produce copies of documents which were in his possession for the purpose of providing legal advice to clients , who had not authorised disclosure .
2 The first document was the CKR signed by the carrier , indicating that the goods described in the letter of credit were in his possession for shipment .
3 On Wednesday 19 February a group of Romano-British brooches that were in my custody for study , were stolen from my house in Nottingham .
4 The one who was in your womb for nine months and a day , remember ?
5 In the same way that , in 1941 , he had been convinced that Hitler was in his debt for services rendered in the struggle against communism , Franco now believed the western powers owed it to him to recognize that he had been right all along .
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