Example sentences of "[vb past] was [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This wrist model I tried was designed for air diving and programmed with the Bühlmann ZHL12 algorithm with automatic ranging from 3,500 metres above sea level to 100 metres depth . |
| 2 | The method adopted was to canvass for capital donations that could then be invested to bring in a regular income , and both Balfour and Law were used to raise the wind . |
| 3 | Well the people that done it did n't get caught but the corridor on which it happened was fined for all the equipment . |
| 4 | One negative control sampled was processed for every three tissue samples examined . |
| 5 | If the complex we observed was required for PPT expression we would expect to see it in these cells . |
| 6 | Sometimes brick tracery was used , sometimes the small quantity of stone needed was found for important buildings . |
| 7 | That is an analysis by the officers of what additional funds they felt was needed for them to fulfil their statutory duties . |
| 8 | What I saw was staggering for the line which passed through those three points apparently intersected three others — a standing stone , just off the Marlborough Road , a bi-section of two round barrows — the line passed cleanly through the narrow gap between them , and finally the most important of all — the west end of the West Kennet long barrow . |
| 9 | I think that at the end of his life he thought that what he knew was lost for ever . |
| 10 | The form this took was to call for a jihad , or holy war , against the US forces and the overthrow of Saudi King Fahd and President Mubarak of Egypt . |
| 11 | ‘ Do you remember last year when your cousin Hamed was looking for a bride ? ’ |
| 12 | I mean , I do n't know I , you see I left I had to come here so I left before Bob Monkhouse and everything , I just , I , all I did was go for couple of free drinks and plate of free food , which , I do n't think I got . |
| 13 | In fact , practically all I did was to go for solitary walks or pretend to read Virgil or Sophocles , whose two dead languages were now as meaningless to me as mental arithmetic , and as incapable of claiming my concentration . |
| 14 | What I did was to wait for him to unbolt the door , which opens outwards . |
| 15 | The first show we ever did was opening for Living Colour , and we 've just done a mini-tour with Adrian Belew 's band . |
| 16 | Everything he said or wrote was calculated for posterity , in her view , he sounded like a sheaf of notes looking for a history book . |
| 17 | The only solution I had was to pay for the guy , bring the piece into my own workshop and re-do the top completely . |
| 18 | He had decreed everyone should wear tartan shoes and since no-one had any , or could get any being stuck on the island , every pupil he met was punished for breaking the law . |
| 19 | ‘ The only mistake we made was to wait for four years before trying to sort out our lives , ’ Julius replied in an unruffled tone . |
| 20 | The choice of the latter led Leavis , to whom I sent the paper later , to expostulate , but at that time I thought that Read was heading for an eminence which , at least as a creative writer , he never attained . |