Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] for [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daily we waited for the skies to fall . |
| 2 | So we pray for the leaders of the nations , and especially those whose words influence and incite strife . |
| 3 | Once inside he groped for the sheets in his pocket . |
| 4 | A few days later he begged for the offices held by his father and complained that it would be a great disgrace to him if they were granted to anyone else . |
| 5 | Hugo had no idea what to do : frantically he rang for the servants . |
| 6 | Why did n't they wait for the passengers to get off first , instead of squeezing themselves , their sacks of wheat and bicycles on at the same time that others were dragging their possessions off ? |
| 7 | Well it says for the nurses to is to be able to evaluate . |
| 8 | DeVore who had arranged the deal whereby he worked for the Levers and yet had his own private laboratories . |
| 9 | Then I asked for the inlays , two humbuckers , two volumes and a tone . |
| 10 | So once you get towards , take a clock in , make sure you pace yourself , and say at the end of that just put in a sort of sentence to make it look as if it 's been finished off Erm , what I usually do when I do an exam is I spend the first five minutes actually looking at the questions because initially you look for the ones that you 've revised and you see but there may be others there , there 're you can do in a slightly different way than the way that they first appear and that might help you quite a bit , although there are no trick questions in this . |
| 11 | The traction — is referred to a set of coordinates which in classical elasticity are in the undeformed material , but in large-strain elasticity may alternatively be in the deformed material Consider at first the classical theory ; if the traction — acts on a surface with normal n then we write for the components of the traction , and the scalar product — . |
| 12 | ‘ How one longs for the days of Bishop Heber sometimes ! ’ |
| 13 | Then they came for the Communists — and we said nothing . |
| 14 | ‘ First they came for the Jews , then they came for the communists , then they came for the trade unionists , then they came for me ’ , he repeats over a silky , mesmeric House groove , gradually adding a line each time , until he gets to ‘ and there was no-one left to speak up for me ’ . |
| 15 | And then they came for the Communists , I was n't a Communist so I did n't bother . |
| 16 | Then they came for the Socialists — and we said nothing . |
| 17 | But I mean once this strike is over , unless we come to proper agreement erm they know then that then it will be too late then cos there 's somebody saying then they came for the Jews first was it ? |
| 18 | Then they came for the Trades Unionists — and we said nothing . |
| 19 | We are interested here in finding out what the norms are within a single social stratum and how they function for the speakers : at this point in our work we have no justification for relating this pattern to social class differences . |
| 20 | How they worked for the dissidents , raised money , edited a Ukrainian language broadsheet . |
| 21 | Then he made for the stairs , taking them two at a time . |
| 22 | Then he allows for the effects of a ‘ propagation mechanism ’ ( see section 5.1(a) ) by adding the lagged value of to equation ( 6.2 ) and attaching a positive coefficient to it , giving : |
| 23 | Then he called for the caskets of gold in which was the balsam and the myrrh which the Soldan of Persia had sent him ; and when these were put before him he bade them bring him the golden cup , of which he was wont to drink ; and he took of that balsam and of that myrrh as much as a little spoon-full , and mingled it in the cup with rose-water and drank of it ; and for the seven days which he lived he neither ate nor drank aught else than a little of that myrrh and balsam mingled with water . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't understand why they pose for the tourists , ’ she said , marvelling at how the huge hoods were wired to flare out in soft folds around each tightly wrapped skull . |
| 25 | ‘ I remember him , of course , from when he played for the Giants . |
| 26 | STEVE LLOYD , Moseley 's giant Uruguayan-born second row forward , is to be watched by Wales rugby union scout Terry Cobner when he plays for the Barbarians against Leicester on Boxing Day . |
| 27 | A former colleague explained why he left for the police . |
| 28 | No one could understand why he volunteered for the Commandos . |