Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knowing what they were like for drink I tried to tell him but he would n't listen . |
| 2 | It was it it it it was about for example |
| 3 | If you think it was hard for me , think what it was like for Gary , the sound technician , who had to sit out front in a box , wired up and WATCH the whole thing seven times a week and twice on Saturdays . |
| 4 | We find out what life was like for army wives in the past and how a modern woman copes with the worries of serving in Northern Ireland . |
| 5 | The split decision , arrived at after almost two hours deliberation by the panel , reflected the complexity of the two-day hearing during which shocking allegations were made about what life was like for residents in the Colchester hospital . |
| 6 | That is what the campaign was like for John Major . |
| 7 | You young people have no idea what it was like for people in Europe then to be offered a cigarette or a piece of chocolate or something like real coffee . |
| 8 | He was probably grateful to drive something which did n't blow up every time the mechanics wanted lunch , which is what life was like for Patrese at Alfa Romeo back in the mid-Eighties . |
| 9 | Vecchi was in for keeps now . |
| 10 | But I was gon na tell you about there was one day I was at for money and I 'm coming up the road , and here this chap was standing in the road and er kind of thumbing a lift , so I says to him , I stopped and I often lift people in the road but er after he got into the , I had an old Bradford van at the time , and he said er , I said to him , I says , are you on a hiking holiday ? |