Example sentences of "we were [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | After towing them back to their ship we were friends for life and the word soon went round the fleet . |
| 2 | The wind freshened from astern off Rudha Reidh and we just managed to beat a south westerly gale into Loch Ewe where we were weatherbound for the next two days . |
| 3 | Erm we were agents for a firm called in Australia , who made very good leather indeed , and we did sell quite a large amount of his tanneds to the local er firms for the saddlery trade . |
| 4 | But however that 's the way things went and er we were distributors for the Morris for Selkirkshire and Peebleshire . |
| 5 | ‘ People thought we were idiots for a long time , ’ remembers Kelly . |
| 6 | Much of the time the principal performers were not even aware of what we were doing for them . |
| 7 | I remember during some very intensive rehearsals we were doing for the Ring we came to a passage where the figuration of the accompaniment always comes out too strongly . |