Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police marksmen were then drafted in for a 12 hour siege after he barricaded himself in . |
| 2 | But Peter Hickton was only slowed down for a moment . |
| 3 | But Mr Pillsbury was not asked back for a second interview . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I was really choked up for a moment . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm sure she was n't taken in for a moment about — about me . ’ |
| 7 | Ramesh K was then brought in for a few minutes . |
| 8 | In Melbourne on the afternoon of 8 February , 1983 , the sky was completely blacked out for a while . |
| 9 | Sarah Murray was recently turned down for a catwalk show because her walk was n't suitable . |