Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [vb past] [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tuan Ti Fo stood there for some time , staring at the door , the wicker basket resting lightly in his hand . |
| 2 | More importantly , I began to write poetry myself , for myself , poetry which I showed to no one and kept hidden in an exercise book reserved explicitly for that purpose . |
| 3 | ( Three months later , to our mutual delight , The Mortgage Corporation came back for another £100 million . ) |
| 4 | United were within thirty minutes of possible relegation … then Joey Beachamp made up for all his earlier misses . |
| 5 | and er , then of course Gilbert went off for another reason |
| 6 | They were gentle , because Bridget Ryan was a quiet woman ; Jack Ryan blustered enough for both of them . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Even the most reliable equipment is at the mercy of the fuse in the plug , and I would hope that if the Rocon circuit went off for this ( or any other reason ) , the remaining 200 watts would keep the tank from lethal chilling until I spotted the problem ( I am often away for days at a time ) |
| 9 | The Marshalls , a well-known family engaged in flax spinning lived here for many years and many interesting people , including Wordsworth and Adam Sedgwick , were visitors . |
| 10 | Well probably because er you know we try and keep up er er certain standard every year and er you know it 's very important doing a video that you have the right songs for it , you know to get a story book set up for each song and this one we felt when we had it finished was probably you know the best we 've done so far and lucky enough we 've been proved right . |
| 11 | Earlier this year the bank replaced this system with Micro Control in a lightning changeover : ‘ The mainframe was inflexible , so the bank already had a PC database set up for all its rules . ’ |
| 12 | W H Smith came in for some surprisingly harsh comment from the financial press last week after the group 's interim results had revealed a 20% drop in pretax profits . |
| 13 | The third came soon after when flanker Chris Clapcott crashed over for another converted try . |
| 14 | The Commons Social Services committee asked unsuccessfully for both sets of figures to be produced . |
| 15 | Emma Cons lived on for another twelve years , continuing to work at her housing projects : but a new chapter had opened in the history of what was to become the Old Vic , as Lilian Baylis began to programme it for early films and then light opera and later Shakespeare . |
| 16 | Trinity hit back with a 34th-minute try from David Jones and substitute Paul Round charged over for another touchdown on the hour . |
| 17 | His widow Margaret held on for another 45 years , beset on all sides by warring local landowners who claimed parts of the island , as its boundaries grew ever-closer to the Holderness mainland . |
| 18 | Another important change is that the time periods laid down for these notices do not commence until the end of the day in which notice is given . |
| 19 | But the Westland affair lingered on for some time to come . |