Example sentences of "was [prep] [pron] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were signs that Waterloo Boy was past his best for the season and those were emphasised when Katabatic easily beat him at Cheltenham in April . |
| 2 | And there was hundreds of contracts like that in the quarry , everybody was on their own for t thing , you know . |
| 3 | Tallis was on her own for the first time in her eight years or so in this unimaginable land . |
| 4 | But it emerged that it was unlikely the child was on her own for more than a day , as neighbours volunteered to look after her . |
| 5 | I remember when I was on my own for a couple of years , and had a great time … but then you find yourself slipping into this feeling of being v-e-r-y lonely indeed . ’ |
| 6 | Life was at its rosiest for Leslie Ash in the summer of 1988 . |