Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [vb pp] for [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | motor vehicles owned by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and used for the purposes of launching lifeboats . |
| 2 | She was lifted out of her perch above the engine and made for the customs shed where she asked for a mirror so that she could restore order to her wrecked coiffure before she went into Paris . |
| 3 | But , after nearly an hour , it was obvious that she had simply been brought to this near-empty building and left for the police to find her . |
| 4 | motor vehicles owned by the Secretary of State for Defence and used for the purposes of the disposal of bombs or explosives |
| 5 | motor vehicles owned by the National Coal Board and used for the purposes of rescue operations at mines ; |
| 6 | The stout man ran into the cottage and phoned for the police and then for other keepers to come to Smiling Meadow . |
| 7 | Carrie kissed her husband lightly on the cheek and made for the stairs . |
| 8 | Compared with all the women with the gall bladder present and an intact uterus , that is the same control group as used for the women with hysterectomy , women who had had cholecystectomy were no different with respect to all four indices of bowel function ; for example their estimated transit time was 64 ( SD 27 ) hours v 63 ( SD 23 ) hours . |
| 9 | Dean Martin , Sammy Cahn and Tony tried to calm her down while Sinatra reached for his car radio and called for the police and an ambulance . |
| 10 | Overall , the two types of study each had its own areas of strength and compensated for the weaknesses of the other ; the neighbourhood studies were intended to obtain depth of linguistic and social information , while the telephone survey provided breadth . |
| 11 | ‘ Bon ! ’ as he pushed back his chair after a meal and made for the stairs and his own preoccupations . |