Example sentences of "they were [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six minutes before half time , they were punished for their shortcomings when Durrant gave Rangers the lead . |
| 2 | But a young couple with a seven-year-old daughter said they were leaving for good . |
| 3 | In the space of a week no fewer than five North Harbour players of various stature announced they were leaving for substantial playing-working contracts in Japan , ranging from two to three years . |
| 4 | They were convicted for a 1986 bombing in which two people were killed at the Wild Coast Sun , a gambling resort overlooking the Indian Ocean . |
| 5 | They were dismissed for 118 in only 44 overs but redeemed themselves in the field , cutting an impressive swathe through the Railway Union batting to win by 39 runs . |
| 6 | They can no longer plead they thought they were digging for foxes , which are not protected , for that is how they escaped conviction in the past . |
| 7 | They use them as stamps or cutters with dough and clay , but in conception they were intended for sorting and matching and thereby to link in with games and toys . |
| 8 | Owner of several Felixes himself , he plans in the next year or two to publish the player 's illustrated scrapbooks for the 1851 and 1852 seasons : ‘ They were intended for publication and are a remarkable social document , ’ he says . |
| 9 | The location of the airfields was not logical if they were intended for defensive purposes . |
| 10 | They were intended for recreation rather than instruction and supplied by A. Gardner , a bookseller in Paisley , who seems to have had a free hand in their selection , Coats dictating the general policy . |
| 11 | What he says they were intended for and what their actual use was to be , were , I suspect , quite different . ’ |
| 12 | We was in a two-bedroomed erm council flat but they were intended for old age pensioners like you know . |
| 13 | No , for good or ill , they were intended for me . |
| 14 | And people strove to emulate their creation , while telling themselves they were striving for purity as possessed by the entity , or entities , that had created them . |
| 15 | The Indians used the berries to dye feathers and fabrics , and they were prized for their healing properties ( wounds were bathed with the juice ) . |
| 16 | They were favoured for the job because of their rapid loading , the cars hardly needing to stop ! |
| 17 | In April 1957 , when what remained of the work was being cleared up , some specimens which had been laid by to crystallize were found to have done so , and so they were sent for pharmacological investigation . |
| 18 | I think they were sent for their tea by Billingsley and his friends , and I 'll tell you something more , no one will ever know what happened to them , so forget it ! |
| 19 | Oh and the fourth thing that happened is the timbers , core samples were taken out of the timbers and they were sent for erm dendrochronology . |
| 20 | They were slowing for a roundabout . |
| 21 | They were sentenced for their part in laundering £l4 million cash from the robbery near Heathrow airport in 1983 . |
| 22 | To make matters worse , the value of homes has dropped dramatically since they were fixed for the council tax more than a year ago . |
| 23 | The Leeward Islands had tried to ignore Carlisle 's lieutenant-governor as early as the 1630s , and when the islands became royal colonies in the 1660s they were treated for a short time as separate communities , with each island being regarded as an individual colony . |
| 24 | They were treated for burns to their hands and arms at Raigmore Hospital , Inverness . |
| 25 | The boys were eventually picked up by a small boat and were taken by ambulance to Nobles Hospital in Douglas where they were treated for the effects of cold . |
| 26 | The boys were eventually picked up by a small boat and were taken by ambulance to Nobles Hospital in Douglas where they were treated for cold . |
| 27 | It was on the tip of her tongue then to ask if he had managed to dispatch the papers to whoever they were destined for , but she held back the question before it got uttered . |
| 28 | They were screaming for Lorna , and Robert handed her out first , then steadied Jo on her unaccustomed high heels . |
| 29 | In the Pre-Campaign Wave and the two Campaign Waves we asked electors to give each party a mark out of ten for how inclined they were to vote for it . |
| 30 | The cooperation of consumers enabled the disruption of production to be minimised ; and the industry 's expertise in avoiding the more serious problems developed with experience and with the higher priorities they were granted for scarce coal supplies after the disastrous crisis of February 1947 . |