Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [be] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His damp hair was slicked back as if he 'd recently been for a swim or taken a shower . |
| 2 | She had consulted an astrologer once before , even if it had only been for a lark , so why not consult another one now ? |
| 3 | Following my economically truthful pronouncements on the local meteorological trends ( I had already been for a pee ) , he reluctantly committed himself to an extended struggle with frozen boots and gaiters , muttering foul oaths about his much vaunted , but now soaked , pair of newly customised salopettes . |
| 4 | Forgotten was the fearful nail-biting exercise Monaghan Day had always been for the whole house ; with distance it had become large , heroic , blood-mystical , something from which the impossible could be snatched . |
| 5 | By the late 1980s , the attractions of city life were not what they had once been for the peasants . |
| 6 | Owned by Raymond Guest and trained in Ireland by Vincent O'Brien , Sir Ivor came to Laurel Park as probably the best European challenger there had yet been for the Washington International . |