Example sentences of "[pron] was [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I , I mean I do n't know , I was n't there for half the things she was talking about last night , I mean I was upstairs for three quarters of an hour trying to go to sleep |
| 2 | But er I was away for a week there , I only came back on Saturday . |
| 3 | ‘ I got a lot of response from the article and my request for someone to move into my home and look after the children while I was away for the eight months in Bristol , ’ she said . |
| 4 | The first the first half a year that I was Holland I I do n't think I was away for a holiday , but then the the next Summer then I was away . |
| 5 | She said , ‘ I was indoors for a bit . |
| 6 | Then I was up for a second — and the next wave hit me . ’ |
| 7 | ANNETTE BENING : ‘ I was up for the part of a prostitute in Dangerous Liaisons , the one whose backside John Malkovich uses to write a letter . |
| 8 | It was terrible , I 'd always been independent , or when I was n't for a while I got my own social security money . |
| 9 | Sometimes I was lucky , sometimes I was n't for instance , if anybody came to the enquiry after the report that the theft of a bicycle from outside the library . |
| 10 | It 's cos I was n't for that . |
| 11 | ‘ I was n't aware that I was here for your entertainment . |
| 12 | I thought that that was what I was here for , that he was something special , chosen by God . |
| 13 | It 's bad enough at first but then it gets worse even as they keep me because they found more , they found two more and that was while I was here for Christ 's sake while they held me while things were still happening more stuff came in while they were questioning me and they looked at me with disbelief horror disgust and I was going What ? |
| 14 | And all of a sudden I was here for six months and then it was , then it 's a fucking year . |
| 15 | We watched you come home , we saw you go into the house and I was all for going right in after you and confronting Imogen , telling you the truth , because I had learned all about how she had dragged you from place to place , from house to house . |
| 16 | I was all for passing by on the other side of the road , but Buffy would n't let it drop . |
| 17 | I was all for telling you everything about Elaine . |
| 18 | I was along for the ride . |
| 19 | Most of the Labour front bench , including Neil Kinnock , were in their places and the predictions were that I was in for a stormy time . |
| 20 | Mrs Stubbins ' manner suggested that I was in for trouble . |
| 21 | Woke up one morning and I was in for twenty thousand . |
| 22 | We just had to sit there all day on our own , and I was in for a couple of weeks . |
| 23 | I was in for two weeks , during which I had a wide variety of tests . |
| 24 | I thought I was in for another evening of getting slightly drunk on my own . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I had worked in recruitment so I knew what I was in for : it can be a nightmare . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ That big yellow beast did this while I was out for a swim . ’ |
| 27 | I was out for four and a half months , then I gave myself up because I was carrying my daughter , Sasha . |
| 28 | I was out for 2 hours from about 2.30 . |
| 29 | I was off for a week which is alright , but during that week I was heavily doped on downers . |
| 30 | So if I was off for two or three years then the rate of inflation was high , then it would be ten per cent each those years |