Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fraser 's relief at being able to resume a career that looked destined for a premature encounter with the scrapheap is manifest . |
| 2 | The 5Os was a time when the hatred , fears and austerities of wartime Europe were still in recent collective memory , as were the two ounces of mildewy cheese that had to do for a whole week 's ration in those blackout , blitz and Mother Hubbard 's cupboard days of the previous decade . |
| 3 | A world that had hoped for the old uprightness , not for the collective cowardice of Colonel John Stephenson and his spineless masters on the International Cricket Council . |
| 4 | With regard to the industry budget as a whole , there is a cash cut of £16 million in real terms between the net planned outturn and planned spending for the coming year . |
| 5 | Hobhouse was educated at Eton ( 1875–9 ) and Christ Church , Oxford , and seemed destined for a military career , attending the Royal Military College , Sandhurst . |
| 6 | Here they also found the values of the market place , which stressed personal independence and self-gratification , and began to search for a sexual fulfilment which , Shorter . |
| 7 | So Clemente and his FA were taken aback when England returned from the Swedish disaster and began pushing for an away fixture at anywhere in Spain that could be called ‘ cool ’ . |
| 8 | But , in the summer of 1945 , he took a furnished room in Kensington and began to look for a suitable and convenient residence of his own . |
| 9 | Oag , formerly marketing director with a major computer industry concern in London , had grown tired of weekend commuting from Nairn , and began to look for a local company he could invest time and money in . |
| 10 | Both cold and hyaluronidase treatment can activate unfertilized eggs so eggs must be kept warm and exposed to hyaluronidase for the minimum length of time . |
| 11 | He decided , though , it would be best to do it alone and started searching for a new workshop where he could work in secret on a new plan . |
| 12 | The whole thing was designed to smoke out double agents , to make sure you had n't gone over and started to work for the other side . |
| 13 | Financial software house Quality Software Products Holdings Plc has taken the plunge and decided to go for a full listing on the UK stock exchange ‘ to exploit the business opportunities ’ presented by its newly-launched Universal OLAS product ( CI No 2,116 ) . |
| 14 | Sub-Prior Richard , a kindly soul even to those for whom he had no particular liking , grew anxious , and went to look for the stray , and found him on his bed in the dortoir , pallid and shivering , pleading sickness and looking pinched , grey and cold . |
| 15 | ‘ I voted for Al Gore for Vice President and had to vote for the other fellow to get his ( Gore 's ) name , ’ Mr Clinton told a neighbour as reporters listened in . |
| 16 | Long before , when he was in perfect health , we had watched a television programme concerned with the high cost of dying and had sent for the accompanying booklet , entitled , appropriately , It 's a R.I.P. Off . |
| 17 | Stalin , the architect of the revolutionary Soviet state , the instigator of unprecedented social reforms and freedoms , the defender of international peace and security , the supporter of Republican Spain , had struck a cynical deal with Hitler , had in one stroke abandoned the principles of collective security and defence of nation states , and had opted for the fascist diplomacy of " bilateral agreements between gang leaders " . |
| 18 | Before becoming deputy chairman of the Defence Council under Gorbachev , Baklanov had been in the CPSU secretariat [ see p. 38131 ] , and had worked for the military-industrial complex . |
| 19 | He had driven to Roker in Sunderland and had walked for a long time on the beach , contemplating suicide , but had driven back to his son 's home . |
| 20 | The Emperor deplored the bellicosity of language and continued to work for a peaceful settlement , using the King of the Belgians as an intermediary , at the same time maintaining close contact with the Spanish Ambassador in Paris . |
| 21 | She mounted the steps to the front door of the house and stood looking for the right bell to ring . |
| 22 | A large number of studies has looked at the geography of those spending patterns , and attempted to account for the spatial variation in how much is spent , where ( for example , Johnston , 1980 ; Archer , 1983 ) . |
| 23 | It was something very rarely seen in Britain , or in other democracies : an emergency government — or , in Hoare 's words , ‘ an emergency Committee of public Safety ’ , formed for a specific purpose , and intended to last for a specific period of time . |
| 24 | He treated Vial leniently in his committee 's report , but failed to press for the early appointment of the necessary second professor . |
| 25 | He would have preferred a special health-service pay factor , but had to settle for an above-average offer to the nurses , who most certainly were the priority group , having fallen badly behind over the previous ten years . |
| 26 | Jessica had dickered about wearing jeans — doing a Karen , she had mocked herself — but had settled for a button-through with a longish skirt to it . |
| 27 | Senator Jesse Helms ( Rep. , North Carolina ) had introduced a series of broader amendments in July , but had settled for the agreed measure . |
| 28 | In spite of these initial advantages , furnishing fabrics , as clothes , were badly in need of overall direction and it was also in Paris that a young woman who had no formal design training but had worked for the exclusive Colefax and Fowler , was hired . |