Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [pron] [vb past] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last he raised his head , and with a feeling of dread she searched for the triumph she was sure she must see now in his eyes . |
| 2 | Having been wintered out on the heterosexual plains of Ipswich I longed for the company of other dykes . |
| 3 | This innovation is especially significant as it suggests that Marx did not believe there was necessarily one set scheme of evolution which applied for the whole of mankind , the view which was held implicitly by most of Marx 's contemporaries . |
| 4 | Banks , and eventually borrowers , had the advantage that the rate of interest they paid for the deposit would be slightly less than that on a conventional time deposit . |
| 5 | ‘ Lots of Brits who spied for the Soviets died peacefully in their beds . ’ |
| 6 | The City took a dim view of what it regarded as the inordinate amount of time it took for the group to return a profit there . |
| 7 | But in the fraction of time it took for the dogs to renew their attack , Angel One 's combat-trained eye registered something vital . |
| 8 | With repairs completed in the nick of time she sailed for the operation with a depleted crew . |
| 9 | In 1832 Nicholas made a trade agreement with Washington which lasted for the rest of the century . |
| 10 | As the fire was crackling into life she headed for the small lavatory in the hall . |
| 11 | In Guildford I saw for the second time the travelling exhibition ‘ Architecture in Context ’ , staged by the RIBA 's South East Region . |
| 12 | Then , during his three years in exile he came for the first time into close contact with the main exponents of the Gregorian ideal , and we must ask how far and in what circumstances he adopted the phraseology of the Gregorian reformers ; then , whether he adopted the theoretical structure which their favourite phrase libertas ecclesiae expressed , or adopted the phrase for use only in exceptional circumstances and for special reasons . |
| 13 | Frank was a local boy from Camberley in Surrey who signed for the Palace on his 17th birthday in June 1931 after having caught the eye of our then Manager , Mr Jack Tresadern . |
| 14 | In effect it provided for the dismemberment of Abyssinia and the giving to Mussolini of about half of what he had set himself to achieve by conquest . |
| 15 | For 1992 the dividend has been increased from three kroner to five ( 50p ) to sweeten shareholders , including many in Scotland who subscribed for the rights issue last year at 175 kroner . |
| 16 | Many from Transylvania who fought for the downfall of Ceaucescu are persecuted , whilst his defenders are treated as heroes . |
| 17 | Alone in bed I wondered for the first time whether the girl had been truly dead when we threw her into the river . |
| 18 | Yes , they 've got a week or two to get it together and send it in , but we know from what people have pledged that that 's what we can expect at least , and that 's from over a thousand cyclists ranging from , I saw one child in a seat behind their parents on a bike , up to an eighty nine year old lady from Brill who cycled for the first time in years and really enjoyed it . |
| 19 | It is addressed to some learned woman of a higher station who appears to be a new acquaintance ; it is therefore possible that Leapor had had correspondence with a literary woman in London who arranged for the poem 's publication . |
| 20 | Inoue reached an agreement on revision which provided for the legal system to be Westernized along approved lines , foreign judges to sit in cases involving non-Japanese nationals , and for tariffs to be raised without the achievement of tariff autonomy . |
| 21 | I developed so much skill that I could put together a 50 or 60 break and when I moved to York I played for the local Conservative club and reached the final of the York and District competition . |
| 22 | THE Foyle Labour Party Press officer Len Green has thanked the people across Londonderry who voted for the party in last week 's local government election . |
| 23 | Leaving at midday he headed for the Tunisian coast in bad weather . |