Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [vb pp] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I find in myself a desire for which no experience in this world can satisfy , the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world . |
| 2 | ‘ I was kept for this job . ’ |
| 3 | Joanna was kept in hospital for 10 weeks , during which time she was tested for all kinds of illnesses . |
| 4 | The prototype of the new Fast Afloat Boat 3 ( see pa 90 of this issue ) carried out her first service on 29 May while returning from Salcombe to Weymouth , where she was based for some days for familiarisation trials . |
| 5 | One bitch we bred , Champion Jagen Blue Trigo , did the original job she was bred for many years . |
| 6 | And the team will cry out for joy as well , because we were created for this community , and in a way we have been looking for it all our lives . |
| 7 | At one station we were stopped for several hours alongside a troop train on which I discovered the Reverend R.H.L. Slater , now enrolled as an army chaplain , who told me the comforting news that my wife and three children had got away from Myitkyina a day or two earlier . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , the new baronet lived in India and no instructions from him were expected for many months . |
| 9 | Similarly other hard information is scant , for instance James Braid who laid out the ‘ links ’ as they were called for some time , is not mentioned until the sixth meeting on October 29th ; that is four months after the first nine holes were opened , and even then the reference is vague . |
| 10 | It was like they were made for each other , she said , was n't it ? |
| 11 | Since these machines were for export , they were adapted for that market and so are unique . |
| 12 | The rights and wrongs of it were debated for some time and the feeling seemed to be that the TCCB had come out of it in a worse light than Gatting ; as the Melbourne newspaper The Age put it , ‘ Gatting , caught rumour , bowled hypocrisy , 0 ’ . |
| 13 | It implies for example , it was created for some kind of purpose . |
| 14 | And even if a structural , timber can be dated , there is always the possibility that it was stored for some time between being felled and being used , or even that it was re-used timber salvaged from an earlier building . |
| 15 | and he said it was planned for this lull beforehand . |
| 16 | He took the view that her consent alone could not be retracted since it was given for all time as part of the contract of marriage . |
| 17 | The market might be held several days a week , and if , like the great Cotswold wood marts at Cirencester , Tetbury and so forth , it was noted for some speciality , business might be attracted from well outside the five-mile radius considered reasonable for day-to-day requirements in the Middle Ages . |
| 18 | The southern Mediterranean region is its home , and it was used for many centuries by the Arabs . |
| 19 | It 's completely restored and it was used for several films — Macbeth and Becket , to name two of them . |
| 20 | It does not matter , she had thought , numbly , for whatever it was and whatever it has been , it was forbidden for all time . |
| 21 | As long as they had been promptly informed he was covered for any eventuality . |
| 22 | In a series of acts dating from 1317 , 1322 and 1328 he was compensated for any losses sustained through the renunciation of that claim . |
| 23 | Because he had actually found the cut wires he was grilled for several days , as were several other suspects , all electricians . |
| 24 | True , he went to rouse Sir Ralph but he was searched for any weapons , he had no key , and even if he had entered the room , favoured son or not , Sir Ralph would scarcely have offered his throat to be cut . ’ |
| 25 | Half wanting to quit , half determined to persevere he was caught for some moments , indecisive and forlorn . |
| 26 | It was very nearly a great voice and sometimes , when Gesner was on form , when he was forced for some reason to try hard , it was a great voice . |
| 27 | He was paid for that seal and for his unrivalled knowledge . |
| 28 | Preston was looking stiff because he was braced for another horror story . |
| 29 | And at the end of this week he was braced for another blow : the Supreme Court was set to announce whether he would face impeachment proceedings on embezzlement charges . |
| 30 | In 1918 , at the invitation of ( Sir ) Ronald Storrs [ q.v. ] , the military governor of Jerusalem , he was seconded for several months to Palestine to advise on the renewal of crafts and light industries destroyed during the war , and worked closely with C. R. Ashbee [ q.v. ] , the governor 's civil adviser and secretary to the Pro-Jerusalem Society . |