Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [noun] for [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 She studied car maintenance for the skills task .
2 In France , a poll taken around the same time showed 75% approval for the Americans in the Gulf .
3 Gaidar ( as Deputy Premier in charge of economic reform — see below for his transfer to the Finance Ministry ) pledged government help for the farmers , promising that they would continue to be eligible for preferential loans , and that a draft bill to release farmers ' sons from military service was in preparation .
4 The marriage stopped working because we stopped talking , and when things started going wrong , instead of addressing the issues head on , I began volunteer work for the Samaritans .
5 He hates the invaders , from not-all-that-stout Cortes via de Soto , the first to encounter the Cherokees , and the treacherous English and French who made life hell for the Mohawks , right up to the Quebec police who fired on the Mohawks as they protected their remnant of land against the building of a golf course .
6 In 1892 Hobhouse narrowly won Wiltshire East for the Liberals against a formidable Conservative opponent .
7 To explore this possibility subjects gave risk ratings for the stimuli after completing the main experiment .
8 By 1671 he had a nursery near St Martin-in-the-Fields , for from there he sold fruit trees for the gardens at Woburn Abbey .
9 Some newsmen staged riot events for the cameras ’ ( ibid.:202 ) .
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