Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village eight cops moved in for another raid on a gay bar . |
| 2 | Such hopes as there may have been — American , French , even Vietminh — of a cease-fire or negotiated settlement lingered on for several months but once the French had begun fighting they presented their case , modestly , that military operations were designed with no thought of reconquest but simply to persuade the Vietminh that they had no hope of victory . |
| 3 | This pantomime went on for some time and , inevitably , the emotional strain brought on a resurgence of his symptoms . |
| 4 | This trade carried on for many years , but as a result of more advantageously located competition , it finally ceased working in about 1930 . |
| 5 | Mrs Putt might want a stall cleared out and fresh straw put in for some company she 's expecting , or she 'll want me to hitch up a carriage so she can go visiting . |
| 6 | 30 June started early for those men of C Company who were out on patrol . |
| 7 | The lame recital went on for some time , while Jerome , piteously small and shrunken and wretched , kneeled in Rhun 's supple , generous arm , with that radiant , silent face beside him , to point searing differences . |
| 8 | Widespread violence flared again for several days from July 14 , with unauthorized rallies , inter-ethnic clashes , pogroms and attacks on official buildings reported in Osh city and several other localities . |
| 9 | The three men stood together for some time while the long-faced sheep ambled around them , sometimes coming close to examine them but scuttering away at the slightest of their movements , sending a ripple of bells through the whole flock . |
| 10 | Because Bal 31 can remove telomeric repeats very quickly , this value may be largely underestimated , but it is in agreement with the small size observed above for some of the telomeric fragments . |
| 11 | One reason put forward for this is that a person is more likely to lose their job in an area of high unemployment , and this lack of job opportunities must apply equally to wives . |
| 12 | Not surprisingly the concept of dominant ideology came in for some discussion . |
| 13 | If the green light came on for either project , the paper would go straight to capitalization as a commercial company . |
| 14 | In front of the railway station , a second police car ( summoned by a confident Morse as Lewis had driven him from North Oxford ) was now waiting , and the Chief Inspector nodded a perfunctory greeting to the two detective-constables who sat side by side in the front seats as they watched , and awaited , developments ; watched the three men walk over to the twenty-minute waiting-area set aside for those meeting passengers from British Rail journeys — an area where parking cost nothing at all ; watched them as they passed through that area and walked into the main car-park , with the bold notice affording innocent trespassers the clearest warning : |