Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb past] [art] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you had a bloke like John tha that virtually ran the force for several years whether you liked him or whether you did n't he he he was efficient in running the force erm especially when Charlie was was into the erm in a big way and he spent very little time with Nottinghamshire John ran the force made the decisions and cracked on with it |
| 2 | He has more than likely planned the expedition for the half of the day when it is not Northumberland Avenue 's turn for heating . |
| 3 | On July 13 the South Korean National Assembly unanimously passed a bill which accepted the UN Charter and thereby opened the way for a South Korean application for membership , which was expected to be filed on Aug. 5 . |
| 4 | Robinson became much more confident and outspoken in the 1950s and eventually criticized the NAACP for its gradualist policies . |
| 5 | As it is , we regret that the printers , when they had the opportunity , did not make an end of the half-paid female labour and so established the principle for both sexes of " Equal work , equal pay " . |
| 6 | But then again , the Golden Höfner was the flagship of the company 's electric hollow-bodied range between ‘ 59 and ‘ 62 and naturally became a platform for showing just what could be done . |
| 7 | She entered the lift and impatiently pressed the button for the lower ground . |
| 8 | The theorists were adamant , though , and thus began the hunt for the ‘ missing mass ’ — unobserved dark stuff that would bring W up to 1 . |
| 9 | The SPÖ won 47.7 per cent of the vote and 52 seats ( 54.9 per cent and 62 seats at the last elections in November 1987 — see p. 35792 ) ; the FPÖ won 22.6 per cent and 23 seats ( 9.7 per cent and eight seats in 1987 ) ; the Austrian People 's Party ( ÖVP ) won 18.1 per cent and 18 seats ( 28.4 per cent and 30 seats in 1987 ) ; and the Green Alternatives won over 9 per cent and thus entered the parliament for the first time with seven seats ( having won just under 5 per cent in 1987 ) . |
| 10 | Ewan 's new company , Accolade Business Systems , of Govan , Glasgow , are among the exemplars of employment practice and yesterday received an award for their efforts in the field of hiring disabled people . |
| 11 | He started to plot lines of ancient sites and quickly got a feel for those which cropped up most frequently . |
| 12 | Never taking his eyes from her , Gregson slipped out the photo of Paula Wilson and quickly explained the reason for his and Finn 's presence , enquiring whether or not the face in the monochrome picture rang any bells . |
| 13 | The late Mrs Wallace , who purchased The Spinnery in 1958 and owned the property for many years , gave many interesting details of the old house and later wrote an article for Cumbria . |
| 14 | The plaintiff paid under protest , and later brought an action for a declaration that the charges were illegal and for recovery of past payments . |
| 15 | They used the concept of place value and also had a symbol for zero . |
| 16 | McEwan 's company was bringing the live World Cup feed to New Zealand through Los Angeles and also sold the feed for all 32 games into Canada . |
| 17 | These fees included a charge of at least £2,500 which increased on a scale related to the length of the proposed railway , to anything up to £75,000 and also included the cost for holding any public inquiry that was deemed necessary . |
| 18 | In summary then , the action project appears not to have made a great deal of difference to people 's receipt of other services , except that it has probably kept some sufferers away from day care and has increased home help hours for its own clients ( and probably allayed the need for home help among other clients ) . |
| 19 | He nodded and clearly recognised the answer for what it was — an understatement . |
| 20 | Agoos was 22 at the time and even scored a hat-trick for the youth team during his brief spell at the Prenton Park club . |
| 21 | Agoos was 22 at the time and even scored a hat-trick for the youth team during his spell at Prenton . |
| 22 | From 1913 to 1918 she was secretary of the Women 's Labour League , and strongly defended the need for separate women 's political organizations , at least until women had acquired political experience and maturity comparable with that of men . |
| 23 | They had not taken the time to find out that it was actually the women who traditionally grew the rice for domestic consumption and then exchanged the surplus for other goods or services . |
| 24 | Some respondents answered ‘ no ’ to the first part of this question and then quoted a figure for the second part — making it difficult to discern their real attitude to the issue of capping institutional claims , and complicating the interpretation of the statistics . |
| 25 | Such a situation will be rare , but might arise if , say , the exchange required all floor traders to have their mnemonics printed on their trading cards , failed to accept delivery of the cards by the member to the trading floor , and then brought an action for breach of the original requirement . |
| 26 | Harry had settled himself for the night and then felt the need for a drink of water . |
| 27 | In a major success on June 18 they defeated SOC forces at Kompong Thom , and then held the town for a short time before withdrawing . |
| 28 | The turning-point came when King was supported by the long-serving vestry clerk , who gave evidence against Merceron before a House of Commons committee in 1816 , and then instigated a prosecution for the appropriation of £925 of parish funds and partiality in the renewal of liquor licences . |
| 29 | After his ordination to the priesthood by the Cardinal Vicar for Rome ( May 1899 ) , Eugenio himself studied law and then entered the Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs ( now the Council for the Public Affairs of the Church ) , which handled relations between the Holy See and civil governments . |
| 30 | Perhaps she started from the feeling and then found a correspondence for it in the outside world . |