Example sentences of "[vb past] specially for the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A crucial event in launching Tosti 's career was a concert at the Sala Dante in Rome , at which Tosti sang a ballad composed specially for the concert by Sgambati , Eravi un vecchio , as well as some of his own songs .
2 The couple were chauffeured from their homes to the town hall where they put on the replica mayoral chains made specially for the occasion .
3 The results of applying a transformation procedure to the aeromagnetic data were compared with vector measurements over dense networks in the two areas , made specially for the study .
4 At the sight of white extras , brought specially for the purpose , blacking up their faces to play Ethiopians in a land full of black faces , his indignation was acute .
5 Six miles away , at the mouth of the estuary , the four big transporters , converted specially for the task , lifted one by one from the pad and began to form up in a line across the river .
6 ONE year on , captain Baard Bogen and his crew from the Norwegian airline Braathens celebrate a year of flying into Newcastle with a cake baked specially for the occasion .
7 He looked about him , noting how Spatz had had his suite of offices decorated specially for the occasion , the furnishings replaced .
8 In theory the whole thing is supposed to find some coherence in the text , which William Gibson wrote specially for the show .
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