Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv] and [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 15-acre Herculaneum Dock , two miles from Liverpool city centre , was filled in and reclaimed for the International Garden Festival . |
| 2 | A JUDGE apologised yesterday to a shoplifter who was locked up and forgotten for nine months . |
| 3 | The horn was taken home to Laigh Corton where it was hollowed out and used for many years as a bolting or drenching tube for giving medicine to animals . |
| 4 | Sonny Worthington , who 's twenty five , was beaten up and dragged for half a mile by the car in Banbury almost two weeks ago . |
| 5 | And that volcanic streak was responsible for his rash announcement last December to retire after he was sent off and banned for four games at his last French club , Nimes . |