Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [to-vb] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The local communities had to pay for the equipment of the men selected and their expenses until they reached the county boundary , after which they served at the king 's wages . |
2 | The buyers who were pig farmers bought a 28 feet high hopper which , as the sellers knew , the buyers intended to use for the storage of pig nuts . |
3 | Dartmoor was used by the inhabitants of both Devon and Cornwall until AD 850 , after which date common rights began to develop for the Moor , protecting the rights of all but the people of Barnstaple and Totnes ( who were excluded after AD 900 ) , while allowing the area to be hunted by the Wessex kings . |
4 | In addition to preparing for recruitment the development officers began to prepare for the training and employment of support workers . |
5 | She came from a large family , and it must be supposed that her mother or one of her sisters helped to care for the children while she was at work . |
6 | This was still some way from a mathematical science , and chemists continued to look for the Kepler or the Newton of Chemistry who would make it deductive and mathematical . |
7 | Firefighters had to wait for the mains to be turned off before engineers could cap the broken pipe in Swindon . |
8 | The new rules for taxing manufactured interest , payments made to compensate for the loss of interest , where for instance a security is ‘ sold cum interest ’ but acquired by the seller ex interest in order to meet the sale , took effect on 29 June 1992 and apply from 30 June 1992 . |
9 | It would seem that the priests fought a hard election campaign for the liberals began to press for the limitation of clerical deputies — a step inconceivable in 1809 . |
10 | A number of deaf men attempted to enlist for the Army , but many were rejected on grounds of deafness , including four who tried to enlist in one day at an enlisting station in Wales . |
11 | A number of British garages refused to quote for the job directly , giving only-their hourly-rates and an estimate of how long it would take . |
12 | Firemen had to wait for the mains to be turned off before engineers could cap the broken pipe . |
13 | Some of the churches attempted to provide for the needs of their members by maintaining small libraries . |