Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [vb past] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His dogs looked as if they might be dangerous and so Coetzee reached for a tried and tested method for solving the problem — strychnine . |
| 2 | Hitherto Switzerland accounted for a third of all hazardous waste imported into Britain . |
| 3 | Normally Rachel slept for a few hours after the feed and Carrie had made sure her husband knew what to do should the baby wake up before she got home . |
| 4 | Now Houghton reached for the first file and took out the piece of card that bore the fingerprints of a possible match . |
| 5 | Then Swindon asked for a million pounds , Chelsea offered nothing , and Hoddle was valued at a maximum of 175 thousand pounds . |
| 6 | But McHale was a distant third last year when Fisher won for the third time , a sign of the troubles the three-times Tarmac champion was having with his ex-Carlos Sainz Toyota Celica . |
| 7 | JTR travelled on to Bute on the Iona and thence through the Kyles of Bute to Ardrishaig on Loch Fyne where passengers transhipped for the continuing boat journey through the Crinan Canal to the open seas and islands of the West Coast of Argyll . |
| 8 | Until recently Germany accounted for a fifth of its total sales . |