Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And one of the reporters came out and er he asked me he 's heard that our decision was to go out for a strike you see . |
| 2 | Secretly ( because the papers would never report it ) , behind the scenes a huge demand was building up for a ‘ decent ’ paper , one which — dare they say it — would Tell the Truth . |
| 3 | ‘ All I did was come out for a walk before going to bed , and I was about by that place where the bank 's caved in , when somebody jumped me from behind . |
| 4 | But the full force of the poison was staved off for a while . |
| 5 | Observation was carried out for a total of nine weeks in the offices of four solicitors . |
| 6 | The research was carried out for a doctoral dissertation on the princely sum of £410 per annum ( this was the ‘ married woman 's ’ rate of postgraduate grant at the time , £120 lower than the full grant ) . |
| 7 | United were wobbling ; Hoddle was winding up for a big finish . |
| 8 | ONE WAR WAS WINDing down for a while , not ending , because they never end . |
| 9 | He was let out for a walk in the grounds of the medium-security Runwell hospital , near Wickford , Essex . |
| 10 | Up for re-election in 1952 , he was looking around for a cause that would be electorally popular , and found it in anti-communism . |
| 11 | At the door which led back on to the landing he was looking around for a prop or a wedge to pin it open when he thought of the parcel that he 'd been hugging since the zoo . |
| 12 | There are indications that the mill was turned over for a time for saw milling , and possibly even cider production . |
| 13 | TRUE Brit Wayne Batterbee was turned down for a job — because he has the Union Jack tattooed on his hand . |
| 14 | MOTORIST Steve Hopwood was turned down for a disabled parking pass — even though he has only one arm and one leg . |
| 15 | After that , it too was turned in for a Qualcast with loppy handles and collapsible wheels . |
| 16 | With IBM Corp 's stock in the cellar and as hopes dim it will ever again return as the flagship of the US stock market , The New York Times last Sunday 20th was searching around for a successor and came up with — you guessed it — Microsoft Corp . |
| 17 | A MOTHER has condemned thieves who stole the wheels off the family car just before her cancer victim daughter was to set off for a hospital check up . |
| 18 | I was tired , Thérèse said : so I was lying down for a bit . |
| 19 | Planting began in 1969 , but in 1981 , 15 years after the scheme had begun , the whole was sold off for a fraction of almost the billion dollars that had been invested in it . |
| 20 | Monaru was bought in for a course record of 11,500 gns after winning the Carlsberg Selling Hurdle but Pipe had no complaints and said : ‘ People do n't have to run in sellers if they do n't want to . |
| 21 | This was going on for a couple of days , so I was getting worried and I took him to the prison doctor and he says , ‘ It might be with you breastfeeding , try him on the bottle . ’ |
| 22 | Between Czecho and Hungary , he decided he was going off for a couple of days . |
| 23 | He went back into the flat , grabbed his coat , told an astonished Frau Nordern that he was going out for a moment and , without waiting for any protests , dashed out and joined Bodo at the foot of the stairs . |
| 24 | During the previous weeks there had been fine weather , and after a day in the office Paul would keep his mother company in the evenings for a little while , then , as they had nothing to say to one another , he would tell her he was going out for a breath of air . |
| 25 | She 'd told her husband she was going out for a walk with their pet dog , Kirsty , when she was found the dog was still clinging to her . |
| 26 | Press restrictions were imposed ( but quickly lifted ) and the weekly current affairs magazine Caretas was closed down for a time , commentators thereby inferring that the chief target of the coup was APRA . |
| 27 | Evans said they should get Jack Nicholson for the role and he was invited in for a try-out . |
| 28 | I 'll wager the Young Pretender was invited in for a Grolsch on his way back from a cave . |
| 29 | Twenty-four hours after training , there was getting on for a sixty-per-cent increase in the numbers of spines to be found on the dendrites in the left IMHV ( but almost no effect in the right ) . |
| 30 | After Seve 's win at Lytham I was worn out for a week . |