Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought we were just going out for a couple of hours ! ’ she protested hotly . |
| 2 | Police marksmen were then drafted in for a 12 hour siege after he barricaded himself in . |
| 3 | She looked as if she were about to set off for a provincial cocktail party , an office party of female executives . |
| 4 | But Peter Hickton was only slowed down for a moment . |
| 5 | ‘ She said she was just popping out for a minute , ’ she replied . |
| 6 | But Mr Pillsbury was not asked back for a second interview . |
| 7 | A public school was more alien to his nature than his father realized : this son was not cut out for a smooth ascent of the ladder of preferment . |
| 8 | He tried to say this in a way that suggested that he was always ringing up for a natter about arsenic and thallium , that there was nothing odd about his request . |
| 9 | ‘ Sorry , no , ’ Ellie said dismissively , and if Phena thought she was also coming in for a chat she was mistaken . |
| 10 | I was really choked up for a moment . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm sure she was n't taken in for a moment about — about me . ’ |
| 12 | Ramesh K was then brought in for a few minutes . |
| 13 | In Melbourne on the afternoon of 8 February , 1983 , the sky was completely blacked out for a while . |
| 14 | When first envisaged , then , the lectures were not seen as the core of a forthcoming book , even though ( with their Wagnerian connection ) they bore on his current preoccupation — and even though he was currently casting around for a subject for a book . |
| 15 | Sarah Murray was recently turned down for a catwalk show because her walk was n't suitable . |