Example sentences of "and was for [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | They had three daughters and one son , Matthew , who followed his father 's profession and was for many years superintendent of the LNER locomotive depot at Neasden , London . |
2 | She is a Fellow of the Institute of Home Economics and was for two years the Institute 's Vice-Chairman . |
3 | From January 1891 it appeared as the Lagos Weekly Record , and was for forty-nine years an outspoken critic of colonialism . |
4 | In a letter for publication , Williamson had drawn attention to the fact that he drove a Jaguar and was for some time after known to the Gadfly column as ‘ Jaguar Man . ’ |
5 | Jean Ritchie ( Mrs Patterson ) specialised in Radiotherapy ( D. M. R. T. ) and was for three years Consultant Radiotherapist in Singapore . |
6 | A friend and promoter of the music of Hindemith , Satie , Honegger , Alban Berg and Milhaud , he wrote well-received books on Milhaud and Stravinsky , and was for 15 years director of Belgian State Radio 's music programmes . |