Example sentences of "and was [vb pp] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1923 Van Der Meulen applied for the post of consul there and was selected for a three-year training in Arabic and Islam by the great Leiden Arabist , Snouck Hurgronje . |
| 2 | Pliny spoke of the kraken in the Straits of Gibraltar , where it basked on the warm surface of the water and was mistaken for a series of small islands . |
| 3 | Ieremia Tabai has been President since independence and was elected for a fourth term on May 12 , 1987 , despite a constitutional prohibition on any individual serving more than three terms in the post . |
| 4 | However luck was not with us for , as a reward for jumping in the intervals of appalling freezing fog , he got flu as a Christmas present and was delayed for a few days in hospital at Ringway . |
| 5 | Gascoigne snapped his cruciate ligaments playing for Tottenham in the 1991 FA Cup Final and was sidelined for a year . |
| 6 | Spare Rib was already well established , and was joined for a period by the Leveller , another collective magazine , and the East End News , which produced the first attempt to appeal to ‘ the masses ’ of East London by dressing up Right-On concerns in chirpy Chas'n'Dave-style modernized Cockney . |
| 7 | Grundy , 35 , of Sprotborough , Doncaster — a promising policeman who had been acting sergeant and passed his inspector 's exams — admitted theft and was jailed for a year . |
| 8 | and was pulled for a stint |
| 9 | He was rewarded with the first Presidency of the BDDA and was reelected for a total period of twenty-eight years . |
| 10 | In Edinburgh , she met with representatives of SEAD and was interviewed for a media article . |
| 11 | This building probably held about 100 people and was used for a Sunday evening service as well as the Sunday School . |
| 12 | His drag double act with Roy Barraclough ( Coronation Street 's Alec Gilroy ) , harked back to Norman Evans and was used for a television commercial for the Post Office . |
| 13 | Preston sought anaesthesis in the colour supplement he had brought with him and was distracted for a while by a feature on Great Journeys undertaken or contemplated by the Rich and the Famous . |