Example sentences of "was [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Security and my creature comforts were cared for by a dry-cleaners on the street level ; a cafe on the first floor that would send me up something on a tray when I came home late and tired ; a retired beautician on the second floor who would revive me with an evening ‘ facial ’ ; while the grocer round the corner saw to it that my larder was replenished for my homecomings . |
| 2 | the key to the difference … lies in the family — a truth Daniel Patrick Moynihan was pilloried for stating a few years before Martin Luther King 's assassination . |
| 3 | For example , a car was stopped for speeding or ‘ flying low ’ , and upon returning to the police vehicle the constable related the following considerations which influenced his assessment : |
| 4 | Jasbir Singh was stopped for the second time in two days driving his blue Ford Escort van . |
| 5 | I was stopped for speeding when I was 15 miles over the limit . |
| 6 | She was joined for a short time by another dancer back from war service , Alan Carter . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And then I was coughing for ages then mum goes oh you , I go oh , I feel terrible ! |
| 9 | In a separate adjudication yesterday , Boots was rebuked for claims made for its Farley 's Junior Milk , a formula it recommends for babies over six months old . |
| 10 | In Carthage an inveterate schism ( Donatism ) originated when a devout and wealthy lady who treasured the relic of a martyr was rebuked for lavishing kisses on it at the commemoration of the faithful departed at the eucharist ; ‘ she went off in a huff |
| 11 | GPG was rebuked for complying with FRED 1 before it had become FRS 3 . |
| 12 | Occasionally the Lord Chancellor will publicly reprimand a judge , as happened in 1978 when Mr Justice Melford-Stevenson was rebuked for describing an Act of Parliament as a ‘ buggers ’ charter' . |
| 13 | He was rebuked for " improper and repugnant conduct " in which " fund-raising and official activities were substantially linked " . |
| 14 | She studied it carefully as though it were some unfamiliar object she was seeing for the first time . |
| 15 | The scheme was intended for people of poor or moderate means . |
| 16 | Only the Strand block , now appropriately ( if not very elegantly ) occupied by the Courtauld Institute Galleries , which opened there in 1990 , was intended for ‘ cultural ’ use — as premises for the Royal Academy and other learned bodies . |
| 17 | He said it was not clear whether the device was intended for an animal or a person ’ . |
| 18 | However , here he was at pains to point out that ‘ although this work was intended for an appendix to the Gardeners Dictionary , yet it may be reckoned a complete performance in itself independent to that ’ . |
| 19 | The remainder was intended for Bibles , Prayer Books and ‘ … other books of piety ’ , as well as putting one of the most hopeful of poor persons from each school to some trade , calling or honest employment . |
| 20 | I found myself wondering who that second concert ticket was intended for . |
| 21 | Maybe it was intended for Darren White or even Richard Morrison … but not me . |
| 22 | Described in the commercial directories as a ‘ voluntary school ’ and doubling up as a Sunday school , it was intended for 180 children , and sported Benjamin James as its first headmaster . |
| 23 | In fact , only the square in front of the eastern face of the building was intended for their use : up to 250,000 could assemble there to cheer the Conducator . |
| 24 | But even though his book was intended for contemplatives , it was also widely read by lay men and women . |
| 25 | ‘ In order to obtain judicially admissible evidence , US investigators would have to obtain proof that ( i ) a payment was intended for a foreign official , ( ii ) it was made with a corrupt intent , and ( iii ) it was made for a prohibited purpose . |
| 26 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
| 27 | There was a special , elaborately canopied seat high on the stern , which we may suppose was intended for the ship 's captain , and a row of twenty oarsmen on each side of the ship . |
| 28 | Postmasters could , and did , ensure that priority was given to the letter advising of these developments which was intended for their own particular political friend in London , and that his enemies ' letters would be delayed until the next post . |
| 29 | It is important , however , not to read into this recommendation more than was intended for , as will become clear , it was never the intention of either the Wolfenden Committee or those who were eventually successful in their campaign to incorporate the majority of its proposals in the criminal law , to remove the stigma from homosexuality . |
| 30 | The project was intended for use with first year secondary school pupils ( aged 11–12 years ) and involves an average of three hours of teaching over a series of classroom lessons . |