Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Government-approved ‘ mousetrap ’ had for so long banished regional English cheeses , for instance , that they were given up for dead . |
| 2 | Long before the century closed , pressures were building up for constitutional change and for more profound changes in the social and economic system itself . |
| 3 | Others were queueing up for cracks at goal as well , notably Jon Newsome on at least two occasions , as well as Speed and Bats . |
| 4 | Blackburn , loads of Iti clubs were queueing up for him . |
| 5 | Tenders were to go out for provisions , and every person in the infirmary was to find his own tea ( except for the house surgeon , the matron and Dr. Yeats ' pupil ) . |
| 6 | ( A further five were referred back for lack of such sponsors ) . |
| 7 | Your Royal Highness , it follows to me er Council have debated the Riding Report er a lot of it they did not accept , many of the ideas were referred back for further reconsideration and that is in the hands of the Central Management Committee at the moment and we are proposing to develop the ideas and come back to Council and the wh whole report is not forgotten . |
| 8 | Lucien hurried to the wardrobe where several garments were hanging up for his use . |
| 9 | They would then find that they were hanging around for hours and the crafty ones would try to find a prop bed to catch up on some sleep . |
| 10 | We were hanging about for 19 hours altogether . ’ |
| 11 | Applications to both the United States and Canada were filled out for all the members of the family except the oldest child , Eva . |
| 12 | It was less bad than the one before , but I could n't tell if they were dying down for good or if this were the prelude to something else . |
| 13 | We were tooling up for it when we were sacked . |
| 14 | Kent were hustled out for 196 . |
| 15 | In LONDON dealers were gearing up for a rush of prospective buyers . |
| 16 | But while they were gearing up for the Hi-de-Hi job , Wirral 's Arrowe Park and Clatterbridge hospitals went short of clean bedlinen . |
| 17 | And while these big men were entertaining outside St George 's Hall today , stand-up geniuses Lee Evans and Mark Thomas were gearing up for their show tonight at the Merseyside Academy . |
| 18 | Similar studies of five countries were carried out for USAID in 1983 . |
| 19 | Several desk studies were carried out for customers , mainly dealing with the market economics of mineral commodities . |
| 20 | Major land surveys were carried out for Wimpey Minerals at Isley and Newark and a further contract of 1/2500 maps for the Ordnance Survey was successfully completed . |
| 21 | The general relieving provision in s740 , where transfers took place , etc not with a view to avoiding tax or which were carried out for bona fide commercial reasons , applies to ss739 and 740 . |
| 22 | A party from Wick High School were booked in for the weekend . |
| 23 | They were locked in their cells till 8.30 when they were let out for chapel . |
| 24 | They followed the Thames as it curved down past the Savoy Palace , Durham and York House , past the high-pooped ships scarred from long voyages which were crowding in for repairs . |
| 25 | Judy Little , human resources director of Longman and chairwoman of the Publishing Qualifications Board , announced that increasing numbers of publishers were signing on for NVQs . |
| 26 | Ceauşescu himself knew the cynical and cringing apologetics of those managers who were caught out for gross failure to follow the plan . |
| 27 | For some good reason no Hurricanes were available and orders were telephoned through for the Fulmars to get airborne and gain altitude over Hal Far . |
| 28 | Finished cloth and yarn were hung out for the approval of the merchants and their servants , the broggers , as they rode round the countryside in search of spun yarn and woven cloth . |
| 29 | To accommodate a passenger , a second seat was installed in an open cockpit ( later glazed ) forward of the pilot ( as was done on NASM 's XP–59A ) and the VIPs or observers were strapped in for their first ride . |
| 30 | So it is that even events from the distant past " were written down for our instruction " in order that in the present and for the future " by encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope " . |