Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In second place Frank Emmelmann had to be at his very best as Linford Christie charged home for the British team , pushed all the way by Bruno Marie-Rose and Stefano Tilli , but the East German held on well as Linford was given the fastest ‘ anchor ’ split of 9.1 . |
| 2 | It was on this trip that a remarkable partnership came together for the first time . |
| 3 | Hard , they say , to be too overawed by a character like Cage , whose music includes Roaratorios and a piece composed solely for the white keys on the piano . |
| 4 | Richard turned left for the underground , Martin hailed a taxi . |
| 5 | For the areas in our study there was a high degree of completeness of ascertainment from 1968 onwards for children aged 0–14 because these areas are included in the data collected prospectively for the Northern Region Children 's Malignant Disease Registry and all these cases were included in the National Registry of Childhood Tumours . |
| 6 | Its mouth curled upwards for the first time . |
| 7 | As he will be aware , in June the United States Government had a sum of , I think , $21 million which had been earmarked for military aid set aside for the very purposes that the hon. Gentleman suggests . |
| 8 | In October , Zanussi will be launching the Amie , a washing machine designed particularly for the elderly , disabled and visually impaired . |
| 9 | The backhand slash completing the figure-of-eight sped unerringly for the doomed man 's neck , and an instant later his severed head somersaulted high in the air , to bounce and roll to a stop on the mat several feet away . |
| 10 | It was at this point that Mrs Crumwallis spoke aloud for the first time . |
| 11 | Carter and the Shah met again for the second and final time only a few weeks later , It was New Years Eve in Teheran , Carter was on a hectic world swing and Teheran was a convenient resting place between Warsaw and New Delhi . |
| 12 | This is the storage site planned presently for the proposed freight and coal wagons of the original GC ‘ Windcutters ’ of the 1960's . |
| 13 | Dorothy and her husband worked tirelessly for the various mission projects . |
| 14 | More men were struck in the Dutch battalions , but most balls went overhead for the French gunners were firing a fraction too high . |
| 15 | From about 1750 , population increased yearly for the next 226 years ( figure 2.1 ) . |
| 16 | Most days Jo headed straight for the nearest john and took the hideous contraption off as soon as she was alone , muttering , ‘ If you got it , flaunt it ! ’ as she threw back her shoulders and felt the liberated flesh bounce free . |
| 17 | At a press conference held on April 30 Lee acknowledged officially for the first time the existence of a CCP-led government in Beijing . |
| 18 | STANDING in the doorway of his neat £40,000 home in a secluded cul-de-sac in Brandon , Father John Butler spoke publicly for the first time . |
| 19 | And so it was that on a beautiful morning in May , two to three years after her return from Trantridge , Tess Durbeyfield left home for the second time . |
| 20 | Ballater waited awkwardly for the perfunctory thank you kiss , giving her a few moments before turning away . |
| 21 | The Environmental Protection Service pushed hard for the southern mountain route . |
| 22 | After the Restoration of Charles II Mabbott petitioned successfully for the lucrative office of manager for licences of wine and strong waters in Ireland for himself and his eldest surviving son , Kympton , then aged seven , letters patent being granted in January 1661 . |
| 23 | The clean-living Clint waited hungrily for the next lift down to crack eggs-over-easy . |
| 24 | Queen Victoria went there for the first , very influential time in 1889 , though even before that the surprisingly large English community in Pau had begun to colonize it , to such an extent that by the 1870s not only did the Church of England have congregations in Biarritz but they were already schismatic and the Archbishop of Canterbury had to travel out on a pastoral visit to try and stifle the factionalism . |
| 25 | The 12 governors met yesterday for the third time in a week at Bush House , in London . |
| 26 | When education in the true sense existed only for the inheriting classes , acceptable spoken English was something one was raised with at home . |
| 27 | As Nathan pulled away for the second time he could hear Lumberjack in the kitchen , frantically sawing the legs off tables and chairs . |
| 28 | But this joint venture between the two parents ' genes worked only for the main genes within the nucleus of a living cell . |
| 29 | Bombay : Prices fell sharply for the second day running . |
| 30 | But on 69 minutes Apoel went ahead for the first time in the entire tie and it was to prove decisive , Christodoulous Pounas curling his corner into the far corner of the net . |