Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was walking back for over an hour through deserted streets . |
| 2 | The surpising thing is not that this is happening now , but rather that it was staved off for so long . |
| 3 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 4 | Noel Blake was kicked out for exactly the same reason — he could nt handle being in a squad . |
| 5 | Brazil 's Free Zone of Manaus ( ZFM ) provides a good illustration of the difficulties of adjustment , even though it was set up for quite different purposes . |
| 6 | An area of one square mile around Oxford Street was sealed off for almost five hours and traders , already hit by recession , lost millions of pounds . |
| 7 | GARY STEVENS ' injury torment took another turn for the worse yesterday when the Rangers full-back was ruled out for up to six weeks with a stress fracture of the knee . |
| 8 | Their scrum-half Kevin Ellis was sent off for allegedly tripping his opposite number , Paul Bishop . |
| 9 | But in his next match he was sent off for twice attacking the goalie . |
| 10 | There were no serious injuries , but one passenger was cut by flying glass and traffic was held up for over an hour . |