Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The team will play to the rules laid down for the 1992 World Cup . |
| 2 | More than 40,000 fans turned up for the 12-hour event , Britain 's biggest-ever legal Rave gig . |
| 3 | Outside his ears picked up for the first time the rustling of invisible leaves and the rattle of window-frames : the wind was rising . |
| 4 | As the crews tied up for the last time in Southampton , watched , and waited for by families and friends they had n't seen for eight months , many of them agreed getting back to a routine , going back to work , might by tough . |
| 5 | It was n't only the seeds of oats ; the cornfields usually contained quantities of weeds like chickweed , spurrey and charlock and it was on all these that the skylarks , twite and rock doves fattened up for the coming winter . |
| 6 | Boats pulled up for the deceptive winter , the restless thud of the sea beyond the outer wall threatening to break into their sanctuary . |
| 7 | He set out a four-point plan , commencing with Iraqi compliance with UN resolutions and withdrawal from Kuwait ; the international community could then guarantee the removal of forces , and the restoration of Kuwaiti sovereignty , with arrangements to take account of " the will of the Kuwaiti people " ; an international conference should then be arranged , and comprehensive arms reductions worked out for the whole Middle East region , which would imply dialogue among all concerned , to replace confrontation with " the dynamics of good neighbourliness " . |
| 8 | More men were struck in the Dutch battalions , but most balls went overhead for the French gunners were firing a fraction too high . |
| 9 | ‘ So things worked out for the best , I suppose , ’ Maggie said carefully . |
| 10 | Figures they gave us from surveys carried out for the Inter-Bank Research Organisation by the British Market Research Bureau confirmed this , but showed that people in social classes A , B and C1 are still twice as likely to have a bank account as people in social classes D and E , and that the higher someone 's income the greater is the likelihood of their having a bank account . |
| 11 | ‘ Your concern does you credit , and I 'll see to it you have a few things wrapped up for the poor woman when you go to see her . ’ |
| 12 | The bells rang out for the first time just a day after they arrived back at the church . |
| 13 | His decision was taken , and the orders sent out for the triple muster , yet even after news from the northern border confirmed only too clearly that Scotland intended to take a full part in the harrying of his realm , he was slow to move . |
| 14 | The 12 governors met yesterday for the third time in a week at Bush House , in London . |
| 15 | But this joint venture between the two parents ' genes worked only for the main genes within the nucleus of a living cell . |
| 16 | Bombay : Prices fell sharply for the second day running . |
| 17 | A record number of Guinness pensioners turned out for the annual pensioners ' party at Park Royal this month — almost 1,000 descended on the brewery grounds to remenisce about their lives in the brewery . |
| 18 | He opened the door to the garden , and from Classes 2 and 3 a small group of boys in white running-shorts and T-shirts ran silently for the open air . |
| 19 | HUNDREDS of runners turned out for the annual Race The Train cross country event on the Talyllyn Railway on August 15 . |
| 20 | Tension was mounting as preparations got underway for the first ever race between a balloon , a steamroller … and a narrowboat.As entrants arrived for the annual steam rally at Upton , the contestants in the battle of the giants were all expressing optimism.Balloonist Chris Viles reckoned he was in with a good chance : |
| 21 | One example of this work is the taped interviews carried out for the Imperial War Museum in London of the remaining survivors of the 1914–18 war . |