Example sentences of "[pron] [art] [noun] were [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could be the girl whom the Yard were looking for , and he had better do everything very quickly indeed , including finding his Chief , who would then want to find his Chief Constable and notify Scotland Yard . |
| 2 | In this case the court gave a further reason why the false statement was not caught by section 14 , namely that it related to the price at which the goods were offered for supply and section 14 did not cover false statements about prices . |
| 3 | Further analysis showed no differences in results between schools in which the projects were taught for only the minimum time compared with those that taught it for longer . |
| 4 | As they listened in class to the dialogues which the children were constructing for themselves they were able to see quite clearly where their preparation had been deficient and where their teaching of new material had not been thorough enough . |
| 5 | He had left and walked back to the hotel , and by the time he reached it the police were waiting for him in the lobby . |
| 6 | hon. Member for Blaby blurted out the truth on television on Sunday when he said that what the Government were aiming for was ’ what the Conservative party would accept . ’ |
| 7 | He knew what the boys were fighting for , and was sure that the public would give a right judgement when the proper time came . |
| 8 | I could n't imagine what the others were used for . |
| 9 | Thomas Loy , of the Australian National University , Canberra , revealed the results of his microscopic and biochemical analyses of blood residues on stone implements which sought to find out what the implements were used for . |
| 10 | Dr Richard Evershed and his colleagues there have applied gas chromatography , combined with mass spectrometry to identify food residues in ancient pots , to determine what the vessels were used for and therefore what early societies ate and drank . |
| 11 | He had lied to Evelyn when he 'd denied any idea of what the ransackers were looking for . |