Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] they for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing was heard of them for fifteen years . |
| 2 | It was bought by the first buyers for the purpose of reselling in smaller quantities to be compounded into food for cattle and poultry and was resold by them for compounding into pig and poultry food . |
| 3 | ‘ Two reasons : first , because they moved here , the Sardinians , to find pasture when the land they had grazed for centuries was taken from them for development — the Costa Smeralda , etcetera . |
| 4 | When pressure was put on them for more radical appointments , invitations were mostly too late to make any significant impact . |
| 5 | The office of Earl Marshal was to all intents and purposes the heritable property of the Howard family , although it was lost to them for several decades after the attainder of the fourth Duke of Norfolk in 1572 . |