Example sentences of "was [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a two goal lead from the first leg the pressure was off Swindon for once last night as they tackled Wolves at Molineux … and when Nicky Summerbee gave them the lead they could afford to sit back and cruise to the third rounds … |
| 2 | He was off work for nine days . |
| 3 | In any event , Heinz was off work for two months before embarking on a steady descent of menial jobs , ending up as a kitchen cleaner . |
| 4 | Jamie was off work for three days while his bike was patched up . |
| 5 | As a result of injury he was off work for 31 weeks . |
| 6 | She broke her wrist and was off work for 4 weeks . |
| 7 | The driver of the van which he hit Stephen Whitehead , a self-employed glazier and joiner was off work for six weeks after the accident . |
| 8 | Mr Whitehead was off work for six weeks following the accident and Largue spent two weeks in intensive care . |
| 9 | The reason I am interested is that at that time I was off work for six months and I suspected I had the illness . |
| 10 | Health and Safety Executive representative Neil Anderson said Peter McKay was working on a cutting machine when his glove became entangled with a rotating bar he broke two bones in his left hand and was off work for six weeks . |
| 11 | She thought of the time George Galloway had come to her home while her husband was off work with badly bruised ribs and told them that he was giving William a week 's notice . |
| 12 | But unfortunately I was off school on March the twelfth so I missed the party and everything . |
| 13 | I was off Cley at the time , so I lowered the main and ran for home . |
| 14 | He was off target with four penalty attempts and it was his mistake that presented Malone with the second of their two tries . |
| 15 | It 's because the whole thing was off kilter in some way , not what it seemed , not what people thought it was , not … well , just not right . ’ |
| 16 | I should do something now , because perhaps it was for want of normal company that Eleanor Thorne lay until her mind turned the corner into madness and final decay , I should go out , I should not allow myself to brood , to carry out my sister 's peculiar whims and defer to the judgments she passes upon me . |
| 17 | You could say , perhaps , that the Star Rank scheme was largely put on ice , but that was for want of a sponsor , which was always vital to the future of the scheme . |
| 18 | Well lost property , I already touched on , that was one of my jobs and then erm , we called it the ticket book , that was for want of some other name I suppose . |
| 19 | The City of London plan was for students in the first semester ( sixteen weeks ) to take three basic courses , followed by a second semester in which three introductory courses stemming from the basic courses would be followed . |
| 20 | If was for service to the monarchy , however , that he was made the first Earl Ashburnham in 1730 ; for a family that had begun as modest farmers in the medieval Weald , this was no mean achievement . |
| 21 | ‘ They said it was for lack of printing plates , ’ said Mohammed Salekh , the party leader , who has to submit articles to the authorities for approval . |
| 22 | Partly it was for lack of anything else to be curious about , the usual island obsession with trivialities ; partly it was that one cryptic phrase from Mitford and the discovery about Leverrier ; partly , perhaps mostly , a peculiar feeling that I had a sort of right to visit . |
| 23 | OEEC demonstrated how easy it was for policies of coordination to clash with national wishes and interests . |
| 24 | But it was a very distinctive and pervasive tone : the Hollywood casting couch was for starlets in the States and stud boys in London . |
| 25 | Flying was thrilling and romantic and taking to the air was for women of spirit while those who stayed on the ground had feet of clay . |
| 26 | This Wednesday was for women in business , computers and design , but no one seemed to care . |
| 27 | Corporate liberty , even of the most exalted kind , could never be for Anselm , as it was for Hugh of Lyons , the mainspring of his whole life . |
| 28 | One recommendation made to a large number of departments , however , was for changes in teaching methods , notably the introduction of more oral work . |
| 29 | The original plan was for Seawitch to be delivered to the marina by the tenth and we 'd fly in to join her there . ’ |
| 30 | The preliminary draft of Article 1 did in fact contain , in the English text only , an explanatory gloss to the word ‘ evidence ’ as ‘ including the taking of statements of witnesses , parties or experts and the production or examination of documents or other objects or property ’ ; its eventual omission was for reasons of style rather than of substance . |