Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb past] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The pictures she shot for the cinema were negligible compared to the pictures she shot for pure publicity . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Those flares you fired for the war you ended are still burning for the peace that you won . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He had no sense of give and take ; no idea of the concessions one made for the sake of social comfort . |
| 7 | They had failed to change with the times , so the speeches they wrote for the Queen did her no favours . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was the visitors who pressed for the meeting . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Most burghers who voted for the right did so to express uncertainty and fear about the looming costs of unification . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But the only thing that was important about the film was its length and the ill omens it offered for the future . |
| 15 | The illustrations she produced for the book were based on copies of old master paintings . |
| 16 | The illustrations she produced for the book were based on copies of old master paintings . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | For Christmas and birthdays I asked for the red , hard-backed children 's classics published by Dean and Co. and sold in Woolworth 's : Treasure Island , The Children of the New Forest , Alice in Wonderland , What Katy Did , A Tale of Two Cities . |
| 24 | Identifying trainees is all about finding out who needs to be trained and what they need to know and if you remember one of ject objectives we had for the course is , was to , so that by the end of the course you will actually develop a system by identifying the trainees because this is sort of hit or miss . |
| 25 | A few weeks later he scored the first of three hat-tricks he hit for the Palace when we toppled his former club , Watford , by 4–1 at Vicarage Road . |
| 26 | A rally in Moscow on the evening of March 17 attracted about 70,000 demonstrators who called for the restoration of the Soviet Union . |
| 27 | The loyalist leaders who pressed for the release of the arrested officers were handicapped by a coolness just then among the public at the name Rathcoole . |
| 28 | The IRA regarded civilians who worked for the security forces as " legitimate targets " , but the attacks on civilian workers prompted several joint protest demonstrations by Catholic and Protestant workers . |
| 29 | She returned to the bedroom , slipped on pants and bra , then the overalls she wore for the factory . |
| 30 | He said that loss adjusters who acted for the council 's insurers after November 's fire , would be attending a meeting to discuss the claim as soon as the sketches are ready . |