Example sentences of "were [verb] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The petitioners wanted to know whether a legacy of liberatio to them in the first will could now be held to include debts they had first contracted after the making of the first will ; and whether , if the heirs were to sue them for that , they could be barred by an exceptio doli . |
| 2 | Though he was more like his old self , many suspected they were seeing him for the last time . |
| 3 | Before leaving he stood for a moment at the door and let his eyes range round the room as if he were seeing it for the first time . |
| 4 | If you were seeing it for the first time , what impressions would you receive ? |
| 5 | Erm , last year , we were given it for free , erm |
| 6 | That being so , it is also likely that they were building it for the same military purpose . |
| 7 | There was a disco where beer was on sale but thoughts of dancing the night away evaporated when we found other people were using it for sleeping . |
| 8 | That is , they were conscious of the rule , and rather than following it out of obligation , they were using it for their own benefit , as a sort of ‘ officializing ’ or ‘ universalizing ’ strategy in order to ‘ cloak themselves in legitimation ’ . |
| 9 | In their view the Commission were giving Article 100A an unduly wide construction and were using it for proposals which should properly have been based on some alternative Article of the EEC Treaty , such as Article 100 or Article 235 , which required unanimity in the Council . |
| 10 | We were using it for drunk driving offenders and repeat traffic offenders , not so much because I felt they were the only people who were appropriate for it , but because we wanted to make sure we started with a group who were not likely to get into major trouble should the project not work out . |
| 11 | erm People were bringing it for us , friends were bringing it into us . |
| 12 | If you were protecting me for my own good , she thought , I would be cross with you , but not this cross . |
| 13 | I wondered if they passed that Trade Union ( positive vetting ) file over to someone else or whether they were keeping it for my return . |
| 14 | And he said the they were pressing him for completion that very minute . |
| 15 | She glanced up at him , feeling oddly shy , almost as though she were meeting him for the first time with no doubts , no mistrust , between them . |
| 16 | Marion asked me other day what we were saving them for , I said well we saved them oh I remember ! |
| 17 | ‘ I thought it would be best if Mr Challow were to help you for a bit , Miss Broome , ’ said Mervyn , ‘ while he 's getting settled down , that is . ’ |
| 18 | Me auntie got it up there and when she got up there they were selling them for nineteen pounds . |
| 19 | That was a great week because they felt they were getting it for nothing , till it come to the end of the quarter and then they had to pay it . |
| 20 | So they really were getting you for nothing . |
| 21 | They were concerned least the Shah should think that they were rebuking him for comparing him unfavourably with them of steel . |
| 22 | Many people were buying it for silly uses like bonding plastics — there are loads of alternatives for that ’ . |
| 23 | She made it sound as if she were saying it for the first time . |
| 24 | No wonder Mr MacGregor produced his paper and called for full public discussion just as political pundits were tipping him for promotion in a ministerial reshuffle . |
| 25 | The last thing in the world she had thought of becoming was a parson 's wife , and if she were to consider it for any length of time she would refuse through lack of courage . |
| 26 | HE : Anyone would think they were cutting it for coal-heavers ( pause ) or stonebreakers . |
| 27 | They were doing it for Roberto , he was such a lovable character . |
| 28 | And the fact that they were doing it for a great deal more money , like Havvie Blaine , rather than for supper and a few pence , did n't make it any better . |
| 29 | Strong opposition to such Assemblies was silenced by a very modern excuse — they were doing it for Charity . |
| 30 | If you get paid to do it or you were doing it for money I could appreciate it . |