Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [verb] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man who actually had the lease or paid the rent anyway on this flat was a man who worked sorting for the Post Office . |
| 2 | This embittered minority included not only Greeks who chose to vote for the Communists , when these were eventually relegalised , but a large number of those who voted for the Socialist Party that Andreas Papandreou created in 1974 . |
| 3 | Exacting specifications were then provided for firms who offered to tender for the work of dismantling and rebuilding . |
| 4 | Killed in crossfire … the British soldier who died fighting for the Croatians . |
| 5 | They will only get help if they can not easily realise savings of the person who died to pay for the bill , or if paying for the bill brought their own family savings below £500 . |
| 6 | Armando Durán was on April 30 appointed Foreign Minister , replacing Reinaldo Figueredo Planchart , who resigned to campaign for the leadership of the ruling Acción Democrática ( AD ) ; Durán , was replaced as Secretary-General of the Presidency by Beatrice Rangel . |
| 7 | Jamia Millia Islamia University in Delhi remained closed from the beginning of May following the issuing of a " death sentence " by Moslem fundamentalist students against the pro-Vice-Chancellor , Professor Mushirul Hasan , who had called for the lifting of the ban , in force since October 1988 on the grounds of blasphemy , on the Indian-born British novelist Salman Rushdie 's novel The Satanic Verses [ see p 36450 ] . |
| 8 | More significantly the direction of change was viewed suspiciously by young intellectuals who had hoped for the realisation of the ‘ fifth modernisation ’ . |
| 9 | Joshua , who had made for the exit in search of a cup of tea , noticed Edwina Currie standing by the door . |
| 10 | He it was who had pressed for the creation of Christ Church parish , and he became its first incumbent ; Benjamin and Elizabeth had the singular distinction of having him officiate at their marriage — poor surroundings , then , but in the presence of a minister of great reputation . |
| 11 | We began to take men who had volunteered for the guards , but who had been found by senior Service Medical Officers to be suffering from tuberculosis . |
| 12 | His appointment on a two-year contract will disappoint David Hobbs , the caretaker who had applied for the job on a permanent basis , but Chris Caisley , the Odsal chairman , hinted yesterday that patience might bring a reward for the Northern captain . |
| 13 | Dr Joseph Wybran , the head of the Belgian Auschwitz Committee , who had campaigned for the removal of an order of Carmelite nuns from a convent just outside the perimeter of the former Birkenau extermination camp , was shot in the head outside Brussels University Hospital on Wednesday . |
| 14 | The intention of the environmentalists who had campaigned for the referendums was to make it necessary for parliament to pass new legislation , since this would give them the opportunity to press their demands for much stricter controls . |
| 15 | There was a heavy irony in Lady Thatcher 's fulsome tribute to the women who had campaigned for the vote . |
| 16 | The division on the Determination of Needs Bill debate in February 1941 was reprinted from Hansard , citing all 173 who had voted for the continuance of means calculations together with the ‘ sincere few ’ ( nineteen ) who had been carpeted for defying the Labour whip . |
| 17 | Cracks were revealed in some French-manufactured pressure vessels and other parts for PWRs in 1979 and their dangers were publicized by an engineer , Shoja Etemad , who had worked for the company Framatome . |
| 18 | He was flown to America and during his debriefing exposed two Russian spies , Edward Howard , who worked for the CIA , and Ronald Pelton , who had worked for the NSA . |
| 19 | Hekmatyar , a hardliner who had opposed the Peshawar Accord , regrouped his fighters in the hills to the south of the city and began issuing demands to the new regime , principal among them being the expulsion from Kabul of Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostam , the ethnic Uzbek militia leader who had fought for the Najibullah regime until switching allegiance to Masud in March [ see p. 38847 ] . |
| 20 | Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostam , the ethnic Uzbek leader who had fought for the Najibullah regime until switching allegiance to Masud in March [ see p. 38847 ] and who still commanded the most powerful militia in the country , on June 25 called on all mujaheddin factions in Kabul to cease hostilities . |
| 21 | Those who had fought for the King would be exempt from penalties if their properties were small . |
| 22 | TED 'S POSITION as eighth alternate meant that eight men who had qualified for the heats would have to drop out before he was summoned . |
| 23 | In a speech on July 29 Aristide announced that all official papers would be written in both Creole and French and that all ministers and state and government employees had to be able to read and write Creole , " in memory of all the peasants who had died for the country 's sake " . |
| 24 | The headmaster , who had offered for the occasion his own private stretch of garden , was unusually gracious . |
| 25 | Most of the local men who had come for the conventicle , had come armed in case of a surprise attack , and many of the others agreed to arm themselves , but additional men would be required if the Dragoons were to be confronted . |
| 26 | This duly occurred , with one exception — an evil old crone named Thaukt ( who some say was Loki in disguise ) who refused to weep for the god . |
| 27 | Johnson was told by his lawyers that he , the churchwardens , the Parochial Church Council and LGCM ( all of whom had applied for the faculty ) were likely to lose the case . |
| 28 | There was a strong and efficient band , all Wolverton men under the leadership of Bandmaster Brooks , and an ambulance squad of eight men , all of whom had qualified for the Geneva Badge . |