Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [vb pp] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , the new baronet lived in India and no instructions from him were expected for many months . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was like they were made for each other , she said , was n't it ? |
| 6 | Since these machines were for export , they were adapted for that market and so are unique . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |