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

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1 After the church ceremony , a horse and carriage waited for the newlyweds and took them to their reception , where an entertainer was waiting in the wings to take the children off the adults ' hands .
2 The days when the Royal Brothers and Jackie Pallo plied their trade in exotic venues like Brent Town Hall and WWF stood for the World Wildlife Fund , not the World Wrestling Federation .
3 The angel struck Jacob on the thigh and Jacob limped for the rest of his life .
4 The dozen or so rounds included music , sport , history , geography , art and literature but Crawley waited for the film , TV and theatre questions before playing their joker .
5 But the depth of respect and affection felt for the late leader of the Islamic revolution does not extend to his successors , who have broken into two loose camps of so-called ‘ radicals ’ and ‘ pragmatists ’ .
6 It was day three when I started to haemorrhage and Lee cried for the first time since his brief squawk at the moment of birth .
7 His hunched figure padded across to the desk in the bay and Swod gestured for the police officer to sit down .
8 ‘ That would be the case if Liverpool won the championship and Wales qualified for the World Cup .
9 Mitchum and Geisler arrived for the trial , surrounded by frenzied fans .
10 Currently concentrating on Sparc-based hardware , Lucid has an agreement with NCR Corp that will see its compiler technology and Energize converted for the Intel 80486 under Unix System V.4 and Santa Cruz Unix : compilers have already been implemented for the IBM Corp Rios chip , and Lucid has its eye on Hewlett-Packard Co 's Precision Architecture RISC .
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