Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] for [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was chided for implying in last month 's notes that Somerset looked rather a better bet than Gloucestershire . |
| 2 | When we got home I was thrashed for making my mother ‘ look a fool ’ . |
| 3 | If you look at the history of the band , songs like I Was Made For Loving You , which had a kind of dance feel , we could have done much more of that and been successful with it . |
| 4 | I was stopped for speeding when I was 15 miles over the limit . |
| 5 | At a gig in Newcastle , I was reprimanded for saying that a condom smelt ‘ fishy ’ , as this was deemed to be implicitly degrading to women . |
| 6 | ‘ I was sacked for speaking my mind too loudly , ’ he said . |
| 7 | The possibility that I might starve myself to death was never raised : instead I was scolded for looking like a scarecrow , and my mother told me that she was ashamed to be seen with me . |
| 8 | I was arrested for riding a bicycle without a rear light ; I woke as an enraged policeman took me by the throat . |
| 9 | " Yes — I suppose Freud and people like that would say I was compensating for losing my mother . |
| 10 | ‘ I was to blame for ordering you not to harm him . |
| 11 | The baggage computer entry ‘ does not indicate the origin of the bag which was sent for loading on board Pan Am 103 . |
| 12 | Naxos supplied Crete with emery , which was needed for drilling and polishing the stone bowls and vases . |
| 13 | Prominent among these buildings is the hop-kiln , which was used for drying hops ( the main use for which is in beer , although they are also incorporated in other delicacies ) before they could be despatched to market . |
| 14 | In the shallow sloping terraced garden , with drystone retaining walls , there is a sunken circular garden with a seat all round it and a slate floor which was used for having tea in the shade on boiling afternoons . |
| 15 | The language was incorporated into a program called Filetab , which was designed for looking up information held on file in mainframe computers . |
| 16 | Yes , I think that everybody recognizes that you should use the medicine that the doctor prescribes in the way he prescribes it and when you 've finished the treatment you should put it down the lavatory or get rid of it in some other safe way , but not keep it so that you can try it yourself again a bit later on and perhaps get confused and when you 've got boils on your neck take something which was meant for ingrowing toe nails or something like that . |
| 17 | This prevented the through draught which was valued for winnowing and meant that carts had to back out , so it was a less popular arrangement . |
| 18 | A woman I spoke to in Coventry lives with her two children and husband , had worked as a cashier , a canteen assistant , a barmaid and a bingo cashier until she was sacked for organising a union . |
| 19 | Alison Taylor , the former Gwynedd social worker who says she was sacked for speaking out about the abuses in care , told Community Care last week that she was concerned both at the slow progress of the investigations and the decision of the Crown Prosecution Service not to prosecute certain individuals on grounds of insufficient evidence . |
| 20 | A SHOPWORKER who claimed she was sacked for refusing to work on Sundays won a claim for unfair dismissal at a Hull industrial tribunal yesterday . |
| 21 | Some observers suggested that Brundtland 's stance reflected domestic pressures to " stand up " to external attacks on Norway 's fishing industry , after she was criticized for making concessions to the EC in fisheries talks earlier in the year . |
| 22 | As far as Lucy could see she was dressed for going out , and her manner was grim . |
| 23 | At a time when Portugal was still living under a dictatorship in which homespun nationalist values were lauded , she was criticised for lavishing large budgets on a series of international music festivals . |
| 24 | Two days later she was arraigned for violating the new law , although her case was overtaken by challenges to the constitutionality of the legislation . |
| 25 | Several months later she was arrested for climbing the scaffolding and smashing a window at the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square . |
| 26 | A judge 's daughter who was jailed for supplying drugs claims that drugs and sex are freely available at the prison where she 's serving her sentence . |
| 27 | Last year , the case of Elizabeth Broderick , who was jailed for killing her husband and his new wife , became a cause celebre among feminists . |
| 28 | One American general who was fired for revealing that the US would bomb ‘ downtown Baghdad ’ is now working for CBS . |
| 29 | PRINCE has come to the aid of a DJ who was fired for playing tracks from the star 's raunchy new album . |
| 30 | ‘ It is difficult to justify when you think of that British officer who was convicted for refusing to obey orders to take part in the assault on Le Havre because his superiors had not allowed the German commander to evacuate the French civilians first , ’ said David . |