Example sentences of "they were for " in BNC.
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| 31 | At least she did n't think so ; she used to scold Constanza for saying they were rich , when of course they were for Italy . |
| 32 | They were for servants . |
| 33 | A few errands … yes , he had ; and without knowing , really , what they meant or who they were for . |
| 34 | If she had any misgivings , they were for Matthew . |
| 35 | They were for teenagers , looking ahead to a life where anything wonderful could happen . |
| 36 | When Tiguary indicated the gun emplacements at intervals in the Belmont stockade and asked what they were for ( he had an idea ) , Kit waved a hand and answered , ‘ So the chickens can pop in and out . |
| 37 | I 'd assumed without thinking that they were for the straddling dock cranes to run on . |
| 38 | They were for all ages , from the very young to the schoolroom young lady ; some might even be classed as adult fiction , though they were never again to be published as such . |
| 39 | Thus , although Pollen 's instruments were capable of greatly improving the gunnery of the Royal Navy , they were for the most part rejected because of political controversy , technical confusion , faulty tactical analysis , and financial considerations , and a much inferior and derivative system that had been put forward by Dreyer was adopted instead . |
| 40 | They buried the bodies of those who had died on the boat , but had to leave the others where they were for grypesh could be seen prowling on the bank . |
| 41 | And we had an inspector from the , the office from the home department here who er e had his office down there , and we did all this , they were for er the Ministry of Works . |
| 42 | Anthropologists noted " post-partum taboos " even if they were for a month . |
| 43 | They were , they were for grabbing stuff out for and stone cold general cargo , anything . |
| 44 | Similarly , it has been shown that tsunami , or " tidal waves " as they were for long mis-named , have an immense effect on shore-lines , both in erosion and in the shifting of great quantities of sediment . |
| 45 | ‘ Did she say they were for you ? ’ |
| 46 | Never in my life have I seen social security payments abound unless they were for a pound of flesh . |
| 47 | Iraq denied that the cylinders were part of a gun and maintained that they were for use in the petrochemical industry . |
| 48 | According to the manufacturers of the forgings ( Societa della Fucine , a subsidiary of the Ilva state steel company ) they were for use in Iraq 's petrochemical industry . |
| 49 | For about fifteen minutes he did nothing but sit there contentedly , sipping his coffee and watching their restless , flickering scene around him through half-open eyes : the tall , bearded man with a cigar and a fatuous grin who walked up and down at an unvarying even pace like a clockwork soldier , never looking at anybody ; the plump ageing layabout in a Gestapo officers leather coat and dark glasses holding court outside the door of the cafe , trading secrets and scandal with his men friends , assessing the passers-by as thought they were for sale , calling after women and making hour-glass gestures with his hairy gold-ringed hands ; a frail old man bent like an S , with a crazy harmless expression and a transistor radio pressed to his ear walking with the exaggerated urgency of those who have nowhere to go ; slim Africans with leatherwork belts and bangles laid out on a piece of cloth ; a Gypsy child sitting n the cold stone playing the same four note again and again on a cheap concertina ; two foreigners with guitars an a small crowd around them ; a beggar with his shirt pulled down over one shoulder to reveal the stump of an amputated arm ; a pudgy shapeless women with an open suitcase full of cigarette lighters and bootleg cassettes ; the two Nordic girls at the next table , basking half-naked in the weak March sun as though this might be the last time it appeared this year . |
| 50 | I forget what they were for . |
| 51 | They were for use by statesmen and diplomats , working aids for the men engaged in the conduct of international affairs . |
| 52 | So in in response you said that they they were for accuracy and I pointed out to you that that at site thirteen there was a sixty percent error from your forecast for three years hence , nineteen ninety six and what is in fact being achieved at this very moment in time . |
| 53 | That 's what they were for , you moved them around . |
| 54 | They were for the day after tomorrow . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | Turbin lights and they were for use of coastal command of the RAF first searchlighting for submarines , looking for submarines , the er the Harvards were very much trained as some of them came in from the Navy they were used for training landing of pilots on aircraft carriers , and they had hooks underneath you know the er they were a very good trainer they were still used today , but when we used to go and see films at the pictures they used to use them a lot as Japanese aircraft because they looked alike , and they used to use them as zeros in the American films these Harvard trainers , er and but like as I said they had a experimental department at Helliwells and they used to try out various things to see if they could improve on the structure or the instrumentation things like that |
| 57 | I liked everything about it , I liked everything about it , mind you I had sore fingers to begin with , very sore , with the filing you see , but also er I was used to thing in a way because there was a little lock shop in mother 's yard er and erm home-made er home-made locks and he used to er and now he used to do them and stamp them and I us I worked his hand press for him before I was fourteen and they were for and they are still and my mother used to take them to Birmingham and erm I think he used to give me sixpence for doing everything I did for him . |
| 58 | They 're called sandbags , do you know what they were for ? |
| 59 | I thought they were for sore throats and things Gary ? |
| 60 | They were for our house but not hers . |