Example sentences of "you [was/were] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was it normal , she had enquired , for elderly gentlemen making termly investigations into your scholastic progress to indicate where you were to sit for interview by laying their hand on the sofa cushion , and then , when you sat down , failing to remove their hand ? |
| 2 | And he admits : ‘ It is not normal for the Spanish people to leave the place where you were born for long spells . |
| 3 | Come , I 'll spell it out for you — one thing only you were born for , and that 's to live fourteen years and then bring Undry here and hang it from these chains . |
| 4 | Some of them are fair , some of them treat you reasonably good , but others say you 're just a criminal , a nothing , do n't know what you were born for , that sort of thing . |
| 5 | It 's what you were born for — to make men 's heads turn and women 's eyes grow green with envy for all that you have that they can never hope to achieve . ’ |
| 6 | £560 if you were hospitalised for a week after being involved in an accident as the NatWest Hospital Income Plan would pay you DOUBLE the normal rate for hospitalisation . |
| 7 | So some were staring down at you and others were well below your eye level , which meant that you were scanning for each piece rather than reading them as a series . |
| 8 | In the old days you were done for . |
| 9 | I 've noted there that , that if you were to bid for funds that had tapering attaching to them , and therefore you would be picking up increased costs in ninety five , six , and ninety six , seven , that they would n't exceed the figure shown at the bottom of the page . |
| 10 | ‘ I am thinking , Miss Abernethie , she is perhaps wondering , Like myself , why you were sent for to Naples in the middle of the new-engaged couple 's holiday . |
| 11 | The subject working parties have proved more independent of mind and judgement than critics had expected : less like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern ( ‘ You were sent for : and there is a kind of confession in your looks which your modesties have not craft enough to colour ’ ) ; more , perhaps , like Polonius , given to worthy but occasionally tedious advice . |
| 12 | You resigned over over Westland you er er you were defeated for the leadership . |
| 13 | As , ’ he assured her , ‘ you most certainly will be when you fail to turn up at whatever destination you were bound for . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Would I be right in saying that we have n't provided you with what you were looking for when you came here ? ’ |
| 15 | Mr Richard Warburton , director general of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents , said : ‘ If you were looking for the highest standards of safety , then you would be separating people from their vehicles in the tunnel . ’ |
| 16 | After all , you were looking for a language — Marcus , what is it ? ’ |
| 17 | Well , if you were looking for the qualities Elinor had displayed in their years together , you could probably only have done better by marrying a man-eating tiger . |
| 18 | If you were looking for a physico-chemical reason for this fact rather than the , more usual , historical one you could do worse than suggest a capacity to make helical molecules . |
| 19 | If you were thinking of herbaceous plants , good ones to try are Iris unguicularis and Helleborus niger , if you were looking for a shrub , I would suggest Chimonanthus praecox , or winter sweet ; Lonicera fragrantissima , one of the hammelis , perhaps H. mollis , H. intermedia or H. japonica , or Viburnum x bodnantense . |
| 20 | IF you were looking for a local Pillar of Society , you did not need to seek further than Brian Courtenay . |
| 21 | ‘ If you were looking for a real boost to the industry then these first 10 days should have been much better , ’ said a City analyst . |
| 22 | That 's where I was earlier when you were looking for me . ’ |
| 23 | " Did you get what you were looking for ? " |
| 24 | But I , I did n't know whether that was something that you were looking for , something more local . |
| 25 | Were you aware that no purpose for reading had been given , no specific task that indicated what information you were looking for ? |
| 26 | The third reading , for instance , was slower than the first , despite the fact that you knew exactly what you were looking for . |
| 27 | er and I 'll be the first to recognize that and this was just a sort of the ball park stats that you were looking for . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's what you were looking for , and more . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ So , did you find what you were looking for , guv' ? ’ asked Dexter as the lift jerked into motion and hummed downwards . |
| 30 | And is it the sort of place you were looking for ? |