Example sentences of "were [verb] [prep] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | After instruction in the regulations of the ‘ prison ’ the volunteers were placed in it for nearly a week , and their reactions and behaviour observed . |
| 2 | In that case the railway company had carried the parcels of other persons at a rate less than similar parcels were carried by it for the plaintiff . |
| 3 | For example , if someone gave as their hobbies on their CV only reading and chess , and they were applying to you for a job where they would be working with the public , might you not have doubts about that person ? |
| 4 | It is almost as if they were lent to us for their infancy and formative years , and are then entirely free to go their own way . |
| 5 | Men were to talk of it for many years to come . |
| 6 | The Court of Appeal held that the jurisdiction clause was not binding on B. The way the documents were presented to him for signature was misleading : B was entitled to assume that the two copies of the terms were identical . |
| 7 | He was just about to shrug off the question with ‘ I du n no ’ when he noticed that George and the twins were looking at him for an answer . |
| 8 | He knew the pattern of the carpet by heart but now it was as if he were looking at it for the first time , taking it all in , the design of orange and black squares . |
| 9 | Having delivered Eliot to those who were looking after him for the night , we walked back to our colleges discussing the evening , with the ardour of youth which included that most interesting of contests , the comparison of recollections . |
| 10 | George made a long thinking , grumbling noise , then said , mostly to himself : ‘ The paperwork must have been good … if they were living on it for eighteen months … they were n't escaped prisoners of war trying to reach Switzerland on a hand-copied Fremdenpass … |
| 11 | I recently heard of a family who invited to church some friends who were staying with them for the weekend . |
| 12 | In general Wilson and Stewart were complimented on the political assistance they were providing in what for them was an " agonisingly difficult " situation . |
| 13 | Bales of material of every type and hue were spread before her for her approval . |
| 14 | I were talking to her for about half an hour . |
| 15 | So that one really is telling a story , commemorating something in Danish history , when they were fighting for their for their freedom . |
| 16 | When final plans were put to him for approval , however , he had changed his mind . |
| 17 | Wedding and funeral forms , sent in by the families , were passed to me for transposing into the accepted cliches . |
| 18 | He had about a dozen lorries on the road , and machines er working the roads there , all they were working for nothing for him , these lads and he 'd come along and before Christmas he 'd stop a couple of them , just before Christmas , he used to do that every year . |