Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [noun pl] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Germany agreed to suspend its claims for the payment of debts incurred by the former Soviet Union to former East Germany until the year 2000 , while in exchange Russia abandoned all claims for compensation for Soviet military property and installations in former East Germany . |
| 2 | ‘ Listen ! ’ said the young man named Lawrence suddenly , and checked to strain his ears for the small , recurrent sound that had reached him . |
| 3 | She and Sarah tried to arrange their dates for the same evenings , so that for the rest of the week they were free to go out together . |
| 4 | My Group faced great difficulties when we tried to formulate our recommendations for the teaching of grammar . |
| 5 | ‘ If only I 'd got my clothes for the wedding , ’ she mourned . |
| 6 | Events having turned out better than we expected , we returned to make our plans for the following Sunday when we intended to open . |
| 7 | Innocent certainly knew the position of Monaco and it was through him probably that the pope made known his conditions for the acceptance of Otto . |
| 8 | Some felt that they needed to compensate their children for the ‘ loss ’ of the other parent , and so should devote more time to them . |
| 9 | Further argument was profitless when he started shuffling his notes for the judgment which he would , in almost every case , deliver without hesitation or correction as soon as counsel sat down . |
| 10 | She glanced in the mirror and declared I had wrecked her eyes for the rest of the day . |
| 11 | As for himself , he was sorry she was upset — and also , if he was honest , a little irritated too , because the crisis had wrecked his plans for the morning . |
| 12 | Once we had got our jobs for the morning we set about then eagerly as everything had to be perfect right down to the last detail . |
| 13 | Schools , in many cases with little preparation or warning , now had to redesign their curricula for the 11–16 age group . |
| 14 | A convenient time , with the light fading , for all the brothers who were engaged in copying or reading had abandoned their books for the evening , leaving the prior to ensure that everything was decently replaced exactly where it should be . |
| 15 | It was infuriating that she should need this arrogant cynic who only had to snap his fingers for the world to leap to attention , anxious to please . |
| 16 | When they reached Etaples and had pitched their tents for the night , Charlie decided that perhaps the gymnasium in Edinburgh had been luxury after all . |
| 17 | The WEA could take some comfort from the presence among the remaining six on the committee of Alan Bullock , who had expressed his sympathies for the movement in the previous year 's Highway , and of G. B. Thorneycroft of the General Council of the TUC . |
| 18 | You had to close your eyes for the Lord 's Prayer . |
| 19 | The Strathclyde Firemaster , John Jameson , said at the scene of the tragedy that the family had lost their lives for the price of a £5 smoke alarm . |
| 20 | And the scene of the burning of the books , seen on film by her many times , was as vivid as an actual memory : Hitler 's jack-booted thugs in their brown shirts , swastikas on their arms , heaving the books from the Library and heaping the heritage of the world on to a pyre , dancing and gloating as the flames consumed book after book , volume after volume : Heine , Schiller , Brecht , Thomas Mann , Einstein , Freud , Marx : history , poetry , novels , science , the works of philosophers , psychologists — men and women who had dedicated their lives for the betterment of the brutes who burned their books ; brutes living in utter ignorance , leading lives as dull and limited as the beasts of the fields , inspired only by resentment , vile prejudice , and blind hatred of what they could not understand , and , it was true , victims themselves of poverty and ignorance seeking victims in their turn — and finding them . |
| 21 | Meanwhile he continued to produce his articles for the Evening News . |