Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [vb pp] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The manifesto condemned the invasion of Kuwait and called for the immediate withdrawal of Iraqi forces . |
| 2 | She rose gracefully to her feet and made for the front door , with Melissa following . |
| 3 | Unreality supervened again as Argentina fired its President Galtieri and called for the immediate withdrawal of British forces . |
| 4 | The Dutch were probably right , to judge from a handwritten note de Gaulle gave Chancellor Konrad Adenauer at that time : ‘ The supernational organisms of the six , which tend inevitably and abusively to become irresponsible superstates , will be reformed , subordinated to governments and used for the normal tasks of the council and technical business . ’ |
| 5 | While Iraq demanded the unconditional release of all prisoners-of-war ( PoWs ) and their return to their countries of origin on " humanitarian and legal " grounds , Iran insisted that the issue of prisoner exchange could not be separated from territorial questions and called for the simultaneous withdrawal of Iranian and Iraqi troops from each other 's territory with prisoner exchange . |
| 6 | During this examination , three to four samples of flat rectal mucosa were taken from an area 10–15 cm from the anal verge and used for the proliferative studies described below . |
| 7 | We stomped down the stone steps to collect our sacks and made for the Upper Tier of the crag . |
| 8 | When the plenum opened on March 12 , the MPRP general secretary Jambyn Batmönh announced his resignation and that of the seven-member politburo and called for the complete separation of the party and state , saying that the party would henceforth " prove its leading role in the society not constitutionally but with its deeds for happy future [ sic ] of the Mongolian people " . |
| 9 | Nurse Motley said that when it appeared that Kayley was about to suffer another respiratory attack , she had administered oxygen while Allitt had opened the door and called for the cardiac arrest team . |
| 10 | The two final sections are reserved almost exclusively for Botticelli , with three illustrations for Dante 's Inferno and a series of monochrome on canvas studies for ‘ The Adoration of the Magi ’ , which has been rescued from the Uffizi storerooms and restored for the present exhibition . |
| 11 | When he was n't sketching or painting as a relaxation , Viktor took a rod and line down to the banks of the Moscova and fished for the grey roach that lurked in the sluggish water . |
| 12 | During their student days both Lorraine and Margaret were awarded Heriot-Watt Blues and selected for the Scottish Universities side . |
| 13 | The phone numbers and addressed for the remaining divisions are listed below , should you be interested in other Olympus products . |
| 14 | So saying , she thrust the coffee into Jack 's hand and made for the light reading ‘ Ladies ’ , rubbing and muttering as she went . |
| 15 | I had mentioned the unquantifiable public relationships which could be generated during a secondment and argued for the intangible value of the many hundreds of contacts I had made which could not easily be costed in purely fiscal terms . |
| 16 | ( His introduction of lime juice ( and hence vitamin C ) into the sailors ' daily rations cured them of scurvy and gained for the British tars the nickname of ‘ limeys ’ . ) |
| 17 | Angry Israelis blocked Jerusalem 's main street and called for the prime minister Yitzhak Rabin , to resign . |