Example sentences of "were [verb] [prep] it 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 | Men were to talk of it for many years to come . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 … |