Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [noun] [vb past] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the field Webb stood out for composure , O'Donnell 's experience was invaluable , and their overseas player , Simpkins — he travels from the Isle of Wight — was brave and solid in goal . |
| 2 | The research Jarvis embarked on for his book took him into the lower level concourse at Bond Street . |
| 3 | They had the car lights switched off for a while . |
| 4 | We compared the incidence in the study areas with national data using the following sources : for childhood cancer , data from the National Registry of Childhood Tumours for 1969–87 ; for young people aged 15–24 , cancer registration statistics for England and Wales for 1971–86 , though these data were not subjected to the review processes carried out for the specialist registries ; for leukaemias and lymphomas in those aged 25–74 , data from the data collection study covering about one third of the population of England and Wales . |
| 5 | The parents of the kids at the school where Mrs Rogers taught had her barred from the school , in case the hit squad came back for a second try . |
| 6 | L 178 , p. 5 ) ) , only in connection with the residence requirement laid down for shareholders , and it will therefore be considered only in the context of part ( b ) of the question as I have reformulated it above . |
| 7 | ( Three months later , to our mutual delight , The Mortgage Corporation came back for another £100 million . ) |
| 8 | From being 10-6 down at the interval their pure brand of running rugby thrilled the crowd as the Souter backs blazed over for four thrilling tries and for a victory that appeared well beyond their reach at the half-way stage . |
| 9 | The new Tories talked of being ‘ on the side of the people ’ and when , in March 1954 the Television Bill came up for its second reading , they won the day . |
| 10 | The noise in the Opera House went on for a long time . |
| 11 | Even the most reliable equipment is at the mercy of the fuse in the plug , and I would hope that if the Rocon circuit went off for this ( or any other reason ) , the remaining 200 watts would keep the tank from lethal chilling until I spotted the problem ( I am often away for days at a time ) |
| 12 | Earlier the court heard that in the days after the attack Nichol turned up for work with scratches on his face . |
| 13 | The bitch was wary of her advances and , though she condescended to pick at the food Robbie put down for her , she refused to leave the small cabin even to accompany the Labrador for an evening walk . |
| 14 | Her knees were weak , and she sat down on a chair the press rep brought over for her ; she could not have trusted her legs to walk over to it . |
| 15 | Beware though , if you leave the bubble meter topped up for too long . |
| 16 | My dad blames my mum for the way things turned out for me . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , British 800 metres record holder Kirsty Wade has arranged a social evening tonight to boost the trust fund set up for Cameron Sharp , the former international sprinter disabled in a car crash last year . |
| 18 | The school timetable came in for a lot of criticism , especially in cases where arrangements resulted in classes split between two teachers . |
| 19 | The power struggle went on for about a minute , then the Archon sat down . |
| 20 | Another important change is that the time periods laid down for these notices do not commence until the end of the day in which notice is given . |
| 21 | By the time Bernei went over for London in the 69th minute , Sheffield had accumulated a massive 32–0 lead . |
| 22 | The trustees administering the appeal fund set up for victims of the bombings have now approved the design of a memorial to be placed in Bridge Street at the scene of the atrocity . |
| 23 | So the merger boom went on for a while , still fuelled by this false belief . |
| 24 | It could have led to a certain amount of resentment , particularly when the material benefits flowed in for Hannah . |
| 25 | Earlier this year the bank replaced this system with Micro Control in a lightning changeover : ‘ The mainframe was inflexible , so the bank already had a PC database set up for all its rules . ’ |
| 26 | Well probably because er you know we try and keep up er er certain standard every year and er you know it 's very important doing a video that you have the right songs for it , you know to get a story book set up for each song and this one we felt when we had it finished was probably you know the best we 've done so far and lucky enough we 've been proved right . |
| 27 | Everything cooks very slowly in a slo-cooker because the heating element is extremely gentle and costs no more to use than leaving a light bulb switched on for a day ( a few pence ) . |
| 28 | This paper explores the social policy contexts of prevention , as developed in a research study carried out for the Department of Health ( Hardiker et al . , |
| 29 | A sample survey carried out for the NCC in 1978 showed that most country-dwellers go to town or out-of-town shopping centres to buy things like furniture or clothes . |
| 30 | Out of the short-wave receiver comes a scratchy-hum , and for a few bleary seconds I think it 's a radio station closed down for the night . |