Example sentences of "was [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was off work for nine days . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Jamie was off work for three days while his bike was patched up . |
| 4 | As a result of injury he was off work for 31 weeks . |
| 5 | She broke her wrist and was off work for 4 weeks . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Mr Whitehead was off work for six weeks following the accident and Largue spent two weeks in intensive care . |
| 8 | The reason I am interested is that at that time I was off work for six months and I suspected I had the illness . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But unfortunately I was off school on March the twelfth so I missed the party and everything . |
| 12 | He was off target with four penalty attempts and it was his mistake that presented Malone with the second of their two tries . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The original plan was for Seawitch to be delivered to the marina by the tenth and we 'd fly in to join her there . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I think Gran might have demanded the money because she thought I had a right to it , but it was for love of me and despair at our poverty — her kind of rough justice . ’ |
| 22 | Another innovation connected with transport was for travel to away games . |
| 23 | It is then possible to see how much room there was for choice of strategies in terms of competitiveness and jobs . |
| 24 | The commission that had brought us to Préfleur was for music to a libretto by M. Xavier Frontenac . |
| 25 | The plaintiff 's claim was for loss of the benefit of timely treatment rather than the chance of successful treatment . |
| 26 | Often the attribution is implied by the preceding text , as it was for speech in ( b.3 ) : |
| 27 | For the OECD 's European members as a whole , the projection was for growth of only 1.4 per cent in 1992 and 2.4 per cent in 1993 , with unemployment at 9.3 per cent in both years . |
| 28 | The bacon-curing business was for sale for £l00,000 so assuming that he could finance the remainder he engaged an accountant to check over the books of the existing business and report back to him . |
| 29 | If they become ascertained only after the contract was made , the contract at the time of its creation was for sale of unascertained goods . |
| 30 | However , it can lead to difficult questions in deciding when the goods delivered are so different in kind that their delivery amounts to a breach of fundamental term : for instance , in Geo Mitchell ( Chesterhall ) Ltd v Finney Lock Seeds Ltd [ 1983 ] 2 AC 803 the contract was for sale of " winter white cabbage seed " . |