Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , you learned to hold your own in those days , but some , some of them were n't too particular about bathing and what washing you know things like that , but er you got the usual crop of pigeon flies but there was no hooliganism , occasionally when , when it was election time and when Sir Richard was candidate for one year I remember , they came round and the people from Street and round that road they paraded through Caldmore and Palfry and there was a little bit of rough stuff went on there heckling and booing and shouting , but I do n't think any harm done . |
| 2 | Yeah had a bit of you know , I did n't busy place and Friday was lasagne for the Ininghams |
| 3 | Jimmy Shawn was askin' for you . ’ |
| 4 | Short was co-driver for the British hope David Llewellin , but on Tuesday their British-prepared Toyota Celica crashed out of the five-day , 2,000-mile event . |
| 5 | For while Hartnell was couture for the older royals , its demise followed the shocking news that the higher-profile Edina Ronay house , which counts Princess Diana and the Duchess of York among its customers , is in serious trouble . |
| 6 | CNRS was host for the meeting partly because of its desire to take a leading role in Europe 's changing research landscape . |
| 7 | Specifically relevant to Eardwulf was adultery for , according to Alcuin , the king had dismissed his wife and publicly taken a concubine and Alcuin feared that this affront to God would soon cost him his throne.124 |
| 8 | Though Sparkes was game for his first homosexual experience , his thick Yorkshire accent and humorous attitude to life left Minton undone with laughter and not very much happened . |
| 9 | Christy 's words came back when Sandy was putts for birdie on the 12th and 13th but misses them both . |
| 10 | That to Sergeant Joe was money for old rope . |
| 11 | The Minister droned on at length about all the things Britain was doing for animal welfare in Europe . |
| 12 | Among the winners of last year 's prestigious R & D 100 awards in the US was Bradtec for developing the ELOMIX process — an electrochemical ion exchange technique for continuously removing radioactive elements from chemical decontamination solutions used in nuclear power plants . |
| 13 | Lizzy Burrows was game for anything and everything . |
| 14 | Although Hayman was over-age for recruitment , he was taken into the Diplomatic Service as a first secretary in 1954 and posted the next year to Belgrade . |
| 15 | It led the Bishop of Hippo ( near Carthage ) to write soon afterwards his great book The City of God , the first philosophy of history , in order to rebut the charge that the sack of Rome was punishment for the abandonment by its citizens of their traditional pagan gods . |
| 16 | For more than 30 years Mr Hewitt was coroner for South West Durham , retiring from that position when he became a judge in 1980 . |
| 17 | Aung San became Minister of Defence , Thakin Nu was Foreign Minister and Than Tun was Minister for Agriculture , while Thakin Mya ( an older man ) was named Deputy prime Minister . |
| 18 | In 1872 , the Glasgow Mission for the Deaf was properly reorganised , and Strathern was secretary for them then acted as treasurer for many years until he resigned due to differences with the then committee . |
| 19 | John Lawton was master for this voyage , fresh from another ship but prudently bringing his own cook with him : it fell to Robert Titford to be first mate . |
| 20 | Even though in giving advice to her brother 's wife she had told her to forgive him for his infidelity and take him back , which is what Karenin was doing for her and exactly what she did n't want . |
| 21 | Felix was bishop for seventeen years and his successor , Thomas , for five , and then Berhtgils ( or Boniface ) was consecrated by Archbishop Honorius , who died on 30 September 653 ( HE 111 , 20 ) . |
| 22 | In 1963 , however , Clark was champion for the first time , after winning a record seven rounds , and at 27 he became the youngest-ever world champion . |
| 23 | Strong among the answers from the Rape of Hastings was blame for infiltration from Kent and the continued presence of ‘ wantonness , spleen or illwill ’ . |