Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [was/were] [adv] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scarlet , though not reassured by her words , was touched by her gesture until she saw that Camille was merely reaching for the crisp packet and had patted her in passing . |
| 2 | Is it not ironic that Australia won the final playing in exactly the same style that England were so slated for — to win ! |
| 3 | But the truth is that Mellor was always riding for a fall . |
| 4 | The fascination of this book is in its clear-sighted debunking of the myths which many have fondly mistaken for historical truth : that Columbus was really aiming for Asia , that he and his sailors thought the world was flat , that Queen Isabella pawned her jewels to finance his trips and came down with her husband to wave him off from the docks , or even ( a fondly-cherished delusion ) that these were journeys of discovery rather than intentional acquisition and expansion of the Spanish empire . |
| 5 | My friend says that George was only gone for five minutes , but when he returned from the toilet he said that he had been captured , flown to Venus and then forced to have sex with several beautiful Venusian lasses , who required his ‘ superior seed for the creation of a cosmic super race ’ . |
| 6 | Somehow all these less exciting duties had had to take second place to the social events Aubrey and Madeleine were constantly arranging for his entertainment . |
| 7 | It was as if Marcus were actually waiting for him to effect some magical release or communication . |
| 8 | The project ended in financial disaster , and Vermuyden was temporarily imprisoned for not paying his debts . |
| 9 | The Morley/Penman project had a negative thrust — ‘ rockist ’ duly became a term of abuse as casually applied by pop fans as ‘ selling out ’ had been by 1960s rock fans — but its tone was relentlessly optimistic and Morley was duly rewarded for his faith in market forces ( and in Dollar in particular ) by being invited into Trevor Horn 's record label plans . |
| 10 | Speeches made by other CPV leaders criticized the West for undermining world socialism ; Poland and Hungary were also denounced for allowing non-communists to gain a share of power . |
| 11 | W. 's chapter of misfortunes continued when , in September 1991 , Dr. M. suffered a heart attack and contact between him and W. was necessarily severed for some three months . |
| 12 | The institutional context provided by the OEEC and NATO was largely taken for granted ; the primary focus for study — and political debate — was on the structures and policies of the evolving European Communities . |
| 13 | On the eastbound platform Dean and Lee were already waiting for them . |
| 14 | Having worked offshore on oil platforms for the last 13 years , Derry and Fran were well prepared for the rather isolated nature of life on the island . |
| 15 | She and Boldwood were obviously going for a ride together . |
| 16 | Leith could n't help feeling extremely sorry for her , especially when she discovered that Rosemary , brought up believing that marriages were forever , could not accept that her marriage was over — even though it had ended up such a disaster and Derek was now asking for a divorce . |
| 17 | Both Mac and Morrissey were well known for slagging off the entire rock world outside their own small circles . |
| 18 | Calhaem and Jones were later jailed for life . |
| 19 | It " would have taken 15 minutes to reach San Salvador and Marianella was probably transferred for interrogation to the Military School . |
| 20 | Pacifism had been abandoned as a means for dealing with fascism and Lansbury was widely ridiculed for his " mission to the dictators " which some on the Left saw as little better than Chamberlain 's visit to Munich . |
| 21 | Thus although the authorities had their wish and Leese was effectively silenced for six months , during which time the IFL became a virtually moribund organization , the Rex v. |
| 22 | Many leading Whigs were dead : Shaftesbury had fled to Holland at the end of 1682 , only to die in exile in January 1683 ; Sidney and Russell were both executed for their part in the Rye House Plot , whilst another conspirator , the Earl of Essex , killed himself in the Tower ( although some suspected he had been murdered ) . |
| 23 | But in 1888 , two years after my father was born , the newly constituted county councils were created and Oxfordshire was systematically governed for the first time . |
| 24 | But Mills was also known for his resilient and bubbly personality and he had even been a Samaritan . |
| 25 | The same fusion of techniques can be found even earlier , while Elvis was still recording for Sun . |
| 26 | The man all cricket knows as Syd was all set for action … after a year long fight for fitness … and then on saturday in the gym fate struck again |
| 27 | The man all cricket knows as Syd was all set for action … after a year long fight for fitness … and then on saturday in the gym fate struck again |
| 28 | There are still problems with central defence as Wetherall was partly to blame for the goals . |
| 29 | Elections to the Assembly 's 125 elective seats last took place in October 1988 [ see pp. 36264-65 ] , when Kaunda was also re-elected for a further five-year term as President . |