Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People began throwing suggestions at him , some kindly , some less so , as the same shops came zinging past for the third and fourth times . |
| 2 | It was only when he was confronted by God , broken and forced to give up his pride , that he began to see clearly for the first time the vast difference between living a self-directed life and living for God . |
| 3 | THE wheels of justice began turning yesterday for the former Bolivian Interior Minister , Mr Luis Arce Gomez , when he appeared before a Miami magistrate following his arrest and deportation from Bolivia . |
| 4 | However , horns were generally seen as desirable , especially for harnessing plough oxen , and it was not until the eighteenth century that Scottish farmers began to breed selectively for the polled factor in order to make the cattle of Galloway easier to manage on the long droves to the London markets . |
| 5 | Companies therefore began to compete strongly for the best staff , wooing them with better salaries , conditions of work and career development opportunities . |
| 6 | I often wonder what I would be able to achieve if , one year , I did train especially for the indoor meetings , but it would be an error to try that because the indoor is just a side-show to the main events , which are the big outdoor meetings in the summer . |
| 7 | The member States had joined together for the collective achievement of this common purpose which demanded concerted action . |
| 8 | This was acquired in the early ‘ twenties by the Noyce family and they continued trading there for the next sixty years . |
| 9 | It was an ancient emotion for Blanche , calling her home from the wasteland of tension and anger she had tramped across for the past few months . |
| 10 | Nor , she was sure , Bert , whom she had seen yesterday for the first time as a potentially responsible comrade . |
| 11 | After an hour of this , the pike left it alone and when it had done so for the fifth time , El-ahrairah swam across himself and went home . |
| 12 | They had done so for the last forty-five years . |
| 13 | They had done so for the last forty-five years |
| 14 | The source says : ‘ She went on to say that she had done more for the Royal Family than any of its other members . |
| 15 | The shop bell had tinkled frequently for the past hour , most of the customers having been the ha'penny and penny ones , some of whom were now standing outside at the shop window oohing and aahing at the Christmas goodies displayed there , all entwined with coloured streamers and illuminated by the two gas lamps attached to the side wall of the shop and plopping inside their pretty pink glass globes , while casting a rosy light overall , even over the small faces pressed against the window . |
| 16 | When the gravel was exposed , a stream of clean water flowed from it and continued to do so for the next 7 days . |
| 17 | I remember my excitement when I had arrived there for the first time from St Aubyn 's . |
| 18 | The existence of this power resulted , ironically , in the fact that those African newspapers which had campaigned vigorously for the nationalist cause now enjoyed less freedom under the very governments that they had helped to create . |
| 19 | General Hodge reported that the reopening of the Joint Commission was a disappointment for Rhee and the extreme right in that they had campaigned vociferously for the past year against further American-Soviet discussion . |
| 20 | However , Parke may soon be at the heels of Del Harris , the 20-year-old England No. 1 who had to battle hard for the second day in succession . |
| 21 | The thick grey hair had been tinted a reddish brown , a process to which she had succumbed only for the last two years , having previously been free in expressing her opinion of those stupid women who aimed to camouflage their age by dyeing their hair . |
| 22 | The climate had worsened significantly for the remaining Jews in Germany following the invasion of the Soviet Union , in a period of stepped-up hatred towards the ‘ Jewish-Bolshevik ’ arch-enemy and heightened tension , as Party activists agitated with renewed pressure for action in the ‘ Jewish Question ’ . |
| 23 | With so much happening , and no central authority , Lorne and I were constantly harried by the attempt to film only the crucial events , which appeared to erupt spontaneously at any time of the day or night , while conserving the precious little film stock we had put aside for the intended Bugis film . |