Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb past] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , such was the sheer awesomeness of Mr Wilson 's fury that , as one person , the whole assembled mass headed for the door at top speed . |
| 2 | The defence thus utilized one side of the ambivalence — the love and high esteem felt for the father — to build a bulwark against the other — the hate and contempt of the father — in order to inhibit the aggressive egoism of males and make them all equally subject to a primal father-figure who for the first time now became fully internalized as a shared superego . |
| 3 | His free hand reached for the bottle again , then pulled back . |
| 4 | And they say the sixty-two year old widow died for the sake of a few pounds . |
| 5 | This was the man , it should always be remembered , who joined the British army and worked as a stretcher bearer in the Zulu rebellion of 1906 , giving as his reason that ‘ the British empire existed for the welfare of the world ’ . |
| 6 | These benefits can , however , be limited by producer countries ' actions , as OPEC 's countervailing power showed for the oil industry . |
| 7 | Why does not he address the problem seriously and put real money into solving it — or will he continue to opt out and sell out , just as the Prime Minister did for the country in Maastricht yesterday ? |
| 8 | Yiali in the Dodecanese supplied Crete with the white-speckled obsidian wanted for the fabric of the bowls ; possibly the obsidian came by way of Triandha as a trading station . |
| 9 | The Manchester United manager swooped for the Frenchman in a sensational bid to solve his goal-scoring problems after failing to lure England 's David Hirst from Sheffield Wednesday for £3.5 million . |
| 10 | A smiling receptionist apologized for the matron 's absence . |
| 11 | Police shot dead three men in a raid on a Cairo flat on Dec. 19 , 1988 , one of whom was an Islamic militant wanted for the killing of a police officer in the Cairo district of Ain Shams earlier that month . |
| 12 | The most overwhelming support came for the Revenue 's work in deterring and seeking out tax dodgers . |
| 13 | A distinctly uneasy peace reigned for the rest of the day . |
| 14 | Britain 's surfing champion went for the record — but failed to take it . |
| 15 | Beta versions are out next quarter with general availability slated for the beginning of next year . |
| 16 | Not until the shock of the Crimean invasion did Ivan abolish the oprichnina , and intermittent terror continued for the rest of his reign , swallowing up not a few of the opochniks themselves . |
| 17 | His gloved hand groped for the torch in his coat pocket . |
| 18 | His rounded hand reached for the light switch . |
| 19 | In the late 1980s the Conservative government legislated for the introduction of internal markets in the public sector , notably in community care , health and education . |
| 20 | On Dec. 7 the Zaïrean government asked for the action to be suspended and expressed its indignation over the manner in which its nationals had been expelled " in spite of the blood ties " between the two countries . |
| 21 | It was tacitly assumed by everyone that every single thing existed for the benefit of humankind — nature was man 's convenient larder or leisure bowl . |
| 22 | The purported legatees under the later handwritten document counterclaimed for the validity of that document as a codicil to the deceased 's will . |
| 23 | A man behind the young mother reached for the microphone , but this time Gerrard held on firmly . |
| 24 | Moreover , the actual life and manners of the peasantry are by no means clear , and the historians are divided over whether the late age of marriage , dictated by the impossibility of marriage before an economic slot opened for the man , meant compulsory restraint or a social toleration of masturbation , oral and anal sex , and homosexuality . |