Example sentences of "[Wh pn] were for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , there was no ambiguity ; no difficulty over marriage or courtship ; no women at all but the camp-followers , or the whores who were for sale , with other merchandise , from the second , vagabond camp that stood as a fringe to the first . |
| 2 | The senator had frowned , then opined that it was not just the fat who were for ever barred from the Oval Office , but even the ugly . |
| 3 | Needless to say the proposed settlement — widely publicised — drew a good deal of criticism , almost entirely from the Left who were for a variety of reasons extremely hostile to white Rhodesians . |
| 4 | Similarly the right to grant mulazemets was sometimes used as a means of showing particular honour to individual scholars or of placating those who were for some reason aggrieved . |
| 5 | ‘ Every day hundreds of people — chained , pinioned and fettered were brought to [ the sultan 's hall ] and those who were for execution were executed , those for torture tortured , and those for beating beaten . |
| 6 | Mr d'Ancona recalls : ‘ OSO started with the simple remit of cutting the umbilical cord which linked US oil companies with their established suppliers in the Gulf of Mexico , who were for the most part American . ’ |