Example sentences of "they [was/were] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Anthropologists noted " post-partum taboos " even if they were for a month . |
| 2 | Never in my life have I seen social security payments abound unless they were for a pound of flesh . |
| 3 | I had suggested in the note that , as it was then three-fifteen , rather than their breaking camp , one of them should drive back and take me to where they were for the night and back to the village next morning . |
| 4 | In a rather odd way , 19th-century public schools were just as ideally suited for the fathers of gentlemen as they were for the sons of gentlemen . |
| 5 | The March examination passed OK but when the Canberra crews sat the October examination they all looked in amazement at the test papers ; they were for the Washington . |
| 6 | They were for the entertainment of the workers in their lunch break er , it was n't really much of a job but er , I kept applying to go onto the floor to actually work on the aircraft but they , they would n't sort of er , I was needed too much in the receiving departments so in the end I left . |
| 7 | They were for the day after tomorrow . |
| 8 | He guessed they were for the morals group , since neither he nor Mrs Frizzell ever really read a book , and he put them down again , still mystified . |