Example sentences of "was [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cleo was alert for any patrolling servant , but Lorimer seemed oblivious to such hazards . |
| 2 | Geoff Griffin pictured on a recent trip to Lord 's , where he took a Test hat-trick and was no-balled for throwing |
| 3 | She , yeah , she was overdrawn for for two at , for a day or something . |
| 4 | The film was controversial for its explicitness . |
| 5 | Charles 's birth was registered fairly late in the day : a certificate was n't issued until 3 October , by which time Elizabeth was pregnant for the fifth and last time . |
| 6 | Mary Rose was pregnant for the fourth time and not feeling too good . |
| 7 | Friendship rapidly developed between Mrs Gould , who was pregnant for the seventh time , and Lady Franklin , who at 46 had no children and was delighted to entertain a young family . |
| 8 | It was ample for a small family of four of modest intent , yet large enough for a maid and a nurse to be employed . |
| 9 | Measuring applause does not reveal that the movie was memorable for the woman in the third row because the building on screen reminded her of where she went to school and all those childhood memories came flooding back intercut with the film while the auditorium gently shook as an underground train passed beneath and cigarette ash fluttered down from the balcony in the projector beam . |
| 10 | It was memorable for the endless grind in one gully where the snow was waist-deep and we had to swim upwards , and for the point where we emerged on to the easterly ridge with views to Lyngen , and a wind that had bared the slopes and put our teeth on edge . |
| 11 | And so the day we bought the piano was memorable for many reasons . |
| 12 | The only one of the three daughters around was Dorothy , who acted as our guide and mentor and came with us , first on a visit to Speight 's Brewery which was memorable for the guide , who delivered her monologue in a deadpan voice and an accent so broad that even Dorothy had trouble understanding it , heaven knows what all the Japanese tourists made of it ! — and second , on the Taieri Gorge railway , an afternoon 's ride up into Central Otago , with stops along the way . |
| 13 | It was nearer for me . |
| 14 | Mueller then turned to the American Managing Director in charge of the British Components ' Division , who was due for another assignment after nearly two years in the UK . |
| 15 | He was due for some unpleasant surprises , she felt . |
| 16 | The publicity the film attracted in Cannes followed Nicholson back to America where it was due for New York opening in July which , as Karen Black told me later , was an odd time : ‘ It was a college film and so it goes on release at exactly the same time as the colleges are closing down for the summer and everyone is going home . ’ |
| 17 | The report was due for publication and the text was placed in the school safe . |
| 18 | Of course I was due for a humiliation . |
| 19 | Stonehouse 's bill was due for a second reading in three days ' time . |
| 20 | He had made a will only one month before and when Mr Smith reminded him that the lease of the office premises was due for renewal , he remarked that he would n't be needing them . |
| 21 | Although tramway traffic was still increasing in 1930 much of the equipment was due for renewal . |
| 22 | It was due for the chop and you know it . ’ |
| 23 | Next year he was due for promotion at the insurance office . |
| 24 | Commenting on a considerable drop in sales at a book fair , one experienced bookman wrote about these travel books : ‘ That such a range of books which I find boring beyond belief — I prefer to call them non-books — was due for a shake-out , appeared inevitable to me . ’ |
| 25 | After debriefing , he was due for two full days of leave . |
| 26 | He realized he was due for shipping home to Blighty . |
| 27 | The corrective operation could not be undertaken until the child was three months old , and the doctor recommended that the child should be allowed to stay at the hospital until she was due for surgery , her condition producing difficulties in feeding . |
| 28 | James Whitaker works for the rival Mirror , and his book was due for serialisation in that paper . |
| 29 | His best friend was due for a bad let-down , and it was he who would have to spell it out for him . |
| 30 | Difficult to pin down on account of his constantly changing styles , and less widely known , though not less important , than his contemporaries , Jannis Kounellis and Mario Merz , Fabro was due for reassessment , and this exhibition , selected by the museum 's curator of painting and sculpture , John Caldwell , surveys a career of thirty years . |