Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | London , who retain the side that defeated the Midlands last weekend , are favourites to clinch the title they won for the first time last year . |
| 32 | But last night they admitted for the first time that Mr Mellor did not refer it to the then Prime Minister , Mrs Thatcher . |
| 33 | But even before the last two matches the England management would have been reasonably content with the tour and the evidence it offered for the future development of England rugby . |
| 34 | As father said at the beginning of gruelling sessions in the vacs , the techniques I needed for the next few years — apart from those concerned with sport — dealt not so much with manual skills but with communication , both written and oral . |
| 35 | It is symbolic that a Babylonian text records a payment of oil to Jehoiakin , the son of the king of Judah , and to seven Greek carpenters who worked for the Babylonian court ( Ancient Near Eastern Texts , 2 ed. , p. 308 ) . |
| 36 | When Chuck crossed to the cook tent , carrying his rifle for the early start they planned for the final day , his father was already sitting at a table in the open , sipping a steaming mug of black coffee . |
| 37 | ‘ That philosopher , ’ said Scarlet , who seemed to have forgotten about going home , ‘ the one I was telling you about , he used to go galloping after women all over the place when his hair and his teeth were all falling out , and he used to write about the terrific compassion he felt for the human race , and his breath was foul . |
| 38 | Alone in bed I wondered for the first time whether the girl had been truly dead when we threw her into the river . |
| 39 | The other two mammal species which bred for the first time were a pair of Geoffroy 's marmoset which had one youngster , and the cheetah female , Angie , who produced four cubs . |
| 40 | As the fire was crackling into life she headed for the small lavatory in the hall . |
| 41 | Fiona Hyslop , one of the national executive committee members who voted for the unsuccessful motion drawn up by the policy vice-convener , Rob Gibson , which expressed regret at the leadership 's decision during last weekend 's NEC meeting , criticised the party infighting . |
| 42 | The backbenchers were making the point yesterday that the Chancellor was not the man they blamed for the economic crisis . |
| 43 | Leaving at midday he headed for the Tunisian coast in bad weather . |
| 44 | Towards the end of his long life he married for the second time . |
| 45 | Lane , by way of having a metaphorical dig at the greens , would later speak of how the 20-footer he needed for the outright lead had looked ‘ good in the air . ’ |
| 46 | Glancing through a book I wrote for the Daily Telegraph in 1970 , I was struck by the gloom with which many men and women — but especially men — viewed the prospect of what could be their happiest and most satisfying years . |
| 47 | I developed so much skill that I could put together a 50 or 60 break and when I moved to York I played for the local Conservative club and reached the final of the York and District competition . |
| 48 | This gives the range of MLU scores which accounted for the middle two-thirds of the 123 children studied at each age level . |
| 49 | Most of the 1,500 crowd who came for the best objects on the last two days of the sale meanwhile , were just tourists , which made taking bids extremely difficult and fatiguing , Tajan said . |
| 50 | ‘ I 've got the tickets we ordered for the Welsh match at Twickenham next month . |
| 51 | This is a combination of the list we used for the first plan and the list used for the draft of the second plan . |
| 52 | For three seasons he rode for the Scottish millionaire George Baird ( ‘ Mr Abington ’ ) , training and riding Busybody . |
| 53 | those there , cos those are the ones I had for the European elections |
| 54 | Was it the prosperity of an acquisitive society prepared to forsake children , or the depression which accounted for the inter-war population trends ? |
| 55 | The next year she applied for the nursing course . |
| 56 | There was also a great deal of indignation among ordinary British citizens who discovered for the first time after the massacre in Timişoara that Romania was ruled by a brutal tyrant who enjoyed the privileges of a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath . |
| 57 | Yes , they 've got a week or two to get it together and send it in , but we know from what people have pledged that that 's what we can expect at least , and that 's from over a thousand cyclists ranging from , I saw one child in a seat behind their parents on a bike , up to an eighty nine year old lady from Brill who cycled for the first time in years and really enjoyed it . |
| 58 | That 's the way it went for the whole tour . |
| 59 | It makes standard pear-shaped hot-air balloons for enthusiasts , and specially shaped ones for advertising or big egos — like the hot-air balloon it made for the late Malcolm Forbes in the shape of the American publisher 's French chateau . |
| 60 | What happened here was apparently an attempt to change strokes into dots ; and it is dots he wrote for the immediate repeat of the theme . |