Example sentences of "was [verb] by [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | One of these , Jimmie , was used by him for a harmless demonstration of the electrocardiogram at the Royal Society and became the subject of a famous parliamentary reply to a question from the anti-vivisection lobby ( Hansard , 8 July 1909 ) . |
| 3 | The cabinet was spotted by a runner in a garage in Vienna and was bought by him for £70,000 . |
| 4 | ‘ Car number one was bought by me for two hundred and seventy-eight pounds and sold for one thousand four hundred and twenty-five . |
| 5 | If your employee was employed by you for a continuous period of at least two calendar years into the qualifying week and normally worked 16 hours or more a week , she is eligible for the higher rate of SMP . |
| 6 | When I was chided by someone for seeming oblivious of ‘ the magnitude of the accounting operation ’ I said that it was because of my consciousness of the magnitude of all other operations that I dared to make these demands of Mr Whalley , who perfectly understands in any case . |
| 7 | The discovery of her father 's history of abuse is not only a personal tragedy to Miss X. Resale of the family home means she has missed out financially because the house , valued at £32,500 , was purchased by her for only £14,625 after a standard 55 per cent discount was made . |
| 8 | A manuscript of poems was assembled by him for the Professor to view ; the intention being ( and Dudek was very well experienced in this sort of work ) for him to take the matter over and see it through to publication . |