Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing was heard of them for fifteen years . |
| 2 | I well remember a little cardigan from a High Street store that was given to me for my ( then ) six-month-old baby . |
| 3 | Signora ! ’ as a ripe fruit or some trinket or other was thrust before her for her inspection . |
| 4 | To adhere to the ( 1855 ) treaty that has been made , and which we on our side have kept … you have broken the treaty not we … that engagement was made with us for 20 years … |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The station was offered to us for the sum of £20,000 , but when we asked for a private valuation in the hope of securing a loan to purchase the site , the valuer valued the site at only £10,000 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | He applied for a grant of land and this was sold to him for a nominal sum . |
| 9 | The cabinet was spotted by a runner in a garage in Vienna and was bought by him for £70,000 . |
| 10 | ‘ Car number one was bought by me for two hundred and seventy-eight pounds and sold for one thousand four hundred and twenty-five . |
| 11 | He told her that she would not be able to let go of him , that his power was deep , deep in her bones and she was bound to him for ever . |
| 12 | Because of this , it went on , the city was bound to him for life and death and was now ready to spring to his assistance with a great display of strength . |
| 13 | It must , he thought , have been decades since a fire was lit in it for warmth . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | None the less in 1329 he did simple homage ( all that was asked of him for the moment ) at Amiens , following this up with liege homage in 1331 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | When pressure was put on them for more radical appointments , invitations were mostly too late to make any significant impact . |
| 18 | Will the Minister respond urgently to the constructive plea that was put to him for help through which Northumberland could ease those budgetary restrictions this year and , of course , for an eventual change in that system ? |
| 19 | A young Roman Catholic soldier from the Lancashire Fusiliers was billeted on him for two summer months of 1941 and never forgot the joyful singing which used to accompany Ramsey 's washing and shaving before he went off to the cathedral each morning . |
| 20 | Never again had he thought the love of woman could touch his heart , not after the pain of knowing Tatiana was lost to him for ever . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |