Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reflecting that the librarian 's opinion of academics was about as low as hers of journalists , Loretta asked politely for the current Who 's Who . |
| 2 | In this he argued powerfully for a revival of social citizenship and the ‘ developmental state ’ . |
| 3 | With the residents , they applied successfully for finance through the Inner Area Programme to establish the Braunstone workshops on the estate . |
| 4 | In any case , Charles Henstock cared little for creature comforts , and had lived there for several years , alone , in appalling conditions of cold and discomfort , until his marriage to Dimity Dean , a few years before , had brought companionship and a slight mitigation of the hardship of his surroundings . |
| 5 | It was solely permissive — but it was precisely those owners who cared little for their sites who were likely to refuse protection . |
| 6 | They cared little for the landscape in which they worked . |
| 7 | They cared little for themselves ; they were in and out of hospital for drug addiction and overdoses and abortions . |
| 8 | Dom Pérignon cared little for the wooden plugs wrapped in oil-soaked hemp which were in use during his time . |
| 9 | Considering themselves to be superior , they cared little for the ordinary person and looked down on the sinners . |
| 10 | Queensland aborigines believe they can sing a man to death , and indeed recently managed to sing the state 's premier — a white man , a New Zealand migrant who cared little for ‘ black fellows ’ — out of office . |
| 11 | Stage shows made Leonard Bernstein a very rich man , but he said he cared little for the money , his great love was for the music . |
| 12 | The fusion reaction has in fact technically been achieved at the Princeton Tokomak fusion test reactor which operated successfully for 50 milliseconds . |
| 13 | Although cylinder manufacturers countered effectively for some decades , first with moulding techniques and later with finer grooves , the overwhelming simplicity of being able to press thousands of copies of disc records and play them on a simple machine eventually told in the disc 's favour . |
| 14 | We found a neat village south of Peterlee called Elwick , complete with tree-decked , green , Tabatha Twitchet shop and two super pubs , where we lived uneasily for three years . |
| 15 | An 1899 Wisden made £200 , while 1881 , ‘ 82 and ‘ 85 ( this signed by Sydney Santall , the old Warwickshire player ) sold together for £440 . |
| 16 | It contains unrivalled 18th century English furniture made especially for Harewood by Thomas Chippendale , born only a few miles further up the Wharfe Valley at Otley . |
| 17 | Lady Grace bridal gowns from Sposa Bella Manufacturing Ltd are designed and made especially for the larger bride in sizes 18–30 . |
| 18 | Solange Auxias de Turenne had the idea of staging an open air exhibition of Moore 's sculptures in Paris after visiting a garden made especially for his large-scale bronzes at the Fondation Pierre Gianadda in 1989 ; the suggestion by the City of Paris to use the Gardens of Bagatelle was approved by the Director of the Henry Moore Foundation , Sir Alan Bowness . |
| 19 | Just before half-time Instonians stretched the home defence and Darren Wady passed inside for McCluskey to score . |
| 20 | I knew Leslie 's fastidiousness in sexual matters too well to take the poem literally , but only as he intended that I should : that though he had met many other girls on his leaves in Alexandria and Cairo , he still cared only for me . |
| 21 | But Benedict cared only for Merchiston Lodge and the money . |
| 22 | Card series contains works by the Great Masters as well as those by contemporary artists and subjects produced especially for children |
| 23 | But I am trying to work out when I can walk Paul Buttle 's circuit of the Lakes , devised especially for Outdoor Action . |
| 24 | And there , at one end , is an undisturbed refuge planned especially for them . |
| 25 | ‘ Did you , ’ Markby asked patiently for about the third or fourth time , ‘ intend to make her fall ? ’ |
| 26 | IN SEPTEMBER , a group of 50 people met together for a week of prayer at Our Lady of Good Counsel , Leeds . |
| 27 | ON TUESDAY , the 27th October , Carlisle Walsingham Pilgrims ' Group met together for Mass in St Bede 's Church at the start of our 39th annual pilgrimage |
| 28 | In true pilgrim tradition we prayed and did penance together and we also took our recreation together and we also took our recreation together and so on Wednesday evening we met together for a very happy celebration . |
| 29 | From the beginning she had never tried to pretend that she was in love , although she was very fond of him , and Fred had told her he was happy that she cared enough for him to become his wife . |
| 30 | When the Golden Fish offered this man a reward he asked only for bread , which the creature promptly provided . |