Example sentences of "they [was/were] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It meant they were here for some time . |
| 2 | ‘ They were here for well over two months . |
| 3 | I thought they were both for me . |
| 4 | He explained that were her speech a success , she would be paid well for comment and pictures provided they were exclusively for the use of the True Brit . |
| 5 | They were away for hours . |
| 6 | They were together for four years , but Bailey recalls : ‘ I do n't think we ever saw each other . |
| 7 | Helvin moved in , and they were together for a decade . |
| 8 | They were together for about two-and-a-half years and he is her son Sean 's father . |
| 9 | ‘ They were ostensibly for children , like the Tales for Innocents . |
| 10 | Built by Richard , the first Earl of Burlington about 1679 , they were originally for twelve people , but were altered in 1920 to six dwellings of two rooms each . |
| 11 | I think they were originally for it , I just think there 's it is just so backward |
| 12 | They were there for the convenience of rail passengers . |
| 13 | They were there for seven hours protected by plain-clothes officers . |
| 14 | ‘ They were there for a good couple of hours and when I left at around 2.00pm they were still interviewing players in the spare dressing rooms . ’ |
| 15 | They were there for most of the morning . |
| 16 | A spokesman for a major insurance company commented , ‘ If they were there for only a short time , we could arrange cover , probably without charge . ’ |
| 17 | So they were there for me to see as they came in , etc . |
| 18 | That first night it suddenly dawned on me that they were there for me . |
| 19 | No they were there for oh maybe eight or ten weekends , excavating . |
| 20 | They were there for five days and they were producing them . |
| 21 | They were there for a motoring festival , with more than two hundred million pounds worth of classic cars on show . |
| 22 | They were there for seven days and local people demanded new laws and tougher police action . |
| 23 | And I should , well it struck me that they were there for good and all . |
| 24 | The whole burden of these cuts fell on the colleges of education partly because , as we have seen , their numbers could be swiftly regulated and partly because they were still for the most part institutions predominantly concerned with teacher education . |
| 25 | But they did n't go in a book ; they were only for his friends to read . |
| 26 | They were only for coaches or they could do to ride as well ? ’ |