Example sentences of "they were [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Clara , walking by her side and hearing these words , burst suddenly and at last into loud hysterical weeping , and as the tears flooded down her hot cheeks she knew that they were not for her father , but for the meanness and the lack of love , and for the fear that she would die in so ugly a hole , and so unloved . |
| 2 | No one knows what these carved objects might have been for , so perhaps they were n't for anything , but a heartening prehistoric example of art for art 's sake . |
| 3 | Knew they were n't for gracing suburban dinner-tables , but for having fun with . ’ |
| 4 | No , but they were n't for them , cos they , does n't really matter , they 've got so much pocket out of gas But the Gas is erm , make them increase prices at five per cent less than the rate of inflation that way . |
| 5 | Yeah , well one lot of tablets were , was , they were n't for relaxing tablets but they were called er |
| 6 | Just before Christmas , when they were up for interview from their respective schools . |
| 7 | It meant they were here for some time . |
| 8 | ‘ They were here for well over two months . |
| 9 | I thought they were both for me . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They were away for hours . |
| 12 | They were out for a walk . ’ |
| 13 | It was a Sunday afternoon and they were out for a stroll in the park . |
| 14 | They were out for Mrs Dyer 's blood . |
| 15 | When I was nine and they were out for the evening I stayed up late to watch a horror movie and had nightmares . |
| 16 | When they were out , they were out for a drink . |
| 17 | One evening they were out for a long , long time . |
| 18 | They were out for two or three minutes , during which no one in the hall spoke . |
| 19 | You 'd travel down to the game on a Saturday , and if you met a Leeds fan at the train station , you could be sure that they were the best mate he 'd ever had , and they 'd tell you all the latest gossip that he 'd told them the last time they were out for a few pints . |
| 20 | They were together for four years , but Bailey recalls : ‘ I do n't think we ever saw each other . |
| 21 | Helvin moved in , and they were together for a decade . |
| 22 | They were together for about two-and-a-half years and he is her son Sean 's father . |
| 23 | Whitton 's second , in the 38th minute , must have warned the crowd nearly 1,000 below the Recreation Ground 's 5,000 capacity that they were in for a dispiriting night . |
| 24 | He told them they were in for a terrific all singing , all dancing , all laughing evening in the company of a galaxy of West End stars , and he informed them , after a bow to the front row where the CO and his wife sat among the senior officers of the Battalion : |
| 25 | LONG ago , on dark nights when storms lashed the treacherous coastline , wreckers knew they were in for a busy time . |
| 26 | With a foreboding which Harriet had experienced more than once in her life , something told her that they were in for trouble . |
| 27 | They continued riding through the afternoon , by which time the dull cloud above their heads had become unbroken , and it looked as though they were in for a wet night . |
| 28 | They were in for an interesting night . |
| 29 | Dean Hodgson was first to go … caught behind … for 9 and then in the next but one over Broad was leg before for 14 … at 26 for 2 the Gloucestershire folk must have thought they were in for a hard day but Mark Alleyne came to the rescue … he made 73 … |
| 30 | If the Maltese expected the match to have the friendly atmosphere of a schoolboy international , however , then they were in for a rude awakening . |