Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb past] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My deeper antipathy to Germany and Germans I restrained for a while , on the absurd grounds that it was somehow unreasonable to abominate each of two mutually ill-disposed nations . |
| 2 | But when I did so , the words I uttered for the record were that I could not accept that the proper constitutional practices , as I understood them , were being observed . |
| 3 | Some were clergy who stayed for a week or two . |
| 4 | The pictures she shot for the cinema were negligible compared to the pictures she shot for pure publicity . |
| 5 | The directors understand they have a credibility problem with the supporters who called for the sacking of the board at the end of last week 's drawn home game with Partick Thistle . |
| 6 | Those flares you fired for the war you ended are still burning for the peace that you won . |
| 7 | Enthusiasts , such as the Nobel prizewinners who vouched for the SSC 's promise in Washington on April 13th , would point out that the SSC is not meant to boost the superconductor industry — it is meant to find new physics . |
| 8 | He had no sense of give and take ; no idea of the concessions one made for the sake of social comfort . |
| 9 | They had failed to change with the times , so the speeches they wrote for the Queen did her no favours . |
| 10 | The largest opening in the archosaur skull was the orbit , housing the eyes ; behind this were two temporal openings which allowed for the bulging of the jaw muscles and might even serve to make the skull lighter , since with increasing body size every feature that could reduce weight helped . |
| 11 | In 1508–9 , 20 per cent of the value of Newcastle 's trade was already in coal , and in the following decade there was a boom in coal exports which compensated for a slump in those of wool . |
| 12 | In Kufra , the barber , the hotel cooks , some shop managers , tailors and garage mechanics were non-Libyan , as were some of the workers in those larger gardens which produced for the market . |
| 13 | It was the visitors who pressed for the meeting . |
| 14 | He was one of 100 youngsters who auditioned for the role of a boy who remains on stage all through , being told the story in flashback . |
| 15 | Most burghers who voted for the right did so to express uncertainty and fear about the looming costs of unification . |
| 16 | If in past decades we waited for the telegram to arrive , it did not lessen the shock , but it did prepare us for the event . |
| 17 | But the only thing that was important about the film was its length and the ill omens it offered for the future . |
| 18 | The illustrations she produced for the book were based on copies of old master paintings . |
| 19 | The illustrations she produced for the book were based on copies of old master paintings . |
| 20 | under sections 6(2) and 61(1) of the Financial Services Act 1986 against a firm of solicitors who acted for a person carrying on an unauthorised investment business . |
| 21 | Cheap excursions brought the ‘ trippers ’ , but the holiday-makers who stayed for a week or two were still quite ‘ genteel ’ . |
| 22 | Bad days she reached for the neck of the nearest bottle , never quite drunk , never quite sober , maundering on to Francis about the impossibility of love . |
| 23 | Yong 's father was appalled at the idea , but was finally persuaded to invest in fifty tons of raw salt , to be used in the curing of the venison which abounded in the Eastern islands , as well as several hundred plastic chairs , and a quantity of spare diving equipment for the pearl-shellers who worked for the Aru branch of the Tan family . |
| 24 | Laura was admitted to Birmingham Children 's Hospital for specialist treatment where Mrs Allen maintained a 24-hour vigil during the 12 weeks they waited for a liver to become available . |
| 25 | As soon as we had cleared customs he made for a bank of telephones , and when he rejoined me he was smiling . |
| 26 | You would think we all agreed that acting to end third-world poverty was our number one priority , and that we would all , with barely a sigh of regret , give up our cars , our fridge-freezers and dishwashers , would cease commuting and return to live in the cities we abandoned for the good of our children , and would generally resume our lives as good citizens after 13 years in the desert . |
| 27 | When he disappeared behind the dunes I sat for a while , scratching my crotch as the wind played with my hair and the birds returned to their nests . |
| 28 | With her literary earnings she paid for the education of a young sister , who became her amanuensis and moved to Edinburgh with her in 1847 . |
| 29 | Beyond that , the White Paper Better Services for the Mentally III ( 1975 ) also set out rates of provision which health and local authorities ought to be aiming to achieve For ‘ oughtness ’ could be read council discretion about what priorities they had for the distribution of ‘ new moneys ’ . |
| 30 | But , apart from the sound of their own slightly laboured breathing as they toiled steadily uphill , the chattering of birds and the rustlings of small animals in the undergrowth were the only sounds they heard for the rest of the day . |