Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] for the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As with the word ‘ church ’ , the synagogue came to stand for the building as well as the people meeting there . |
| 2 | He asked me low long I 'd worked for the firm and what my duties were and what Doreen did . |
| 3 | In addition to preparing for recruitment the development officers began to prepare for the training and employment of support workers . |
| 4 | He joined the RAF fresh from A-levels and says he decided to go for the degree so he would have another string to his bow . |
| 5 | I decided to go for the barn and struck lucky twice in a row . |
| 6 | The V bomb , V bombers and the doodlebugs and er when he came home it was nineteen forty six I think or seven er , my fath er my mother had died and my father wanted to get away from the place we were in and we said oh well go ahead you know , we 'll easily get somewhere and of course we did n't and they put us in a Nissan hut , which we made absolutely beautiful , we did all sorts of things to it and had a lovely garden all around it and the people from the Council use to come around and say to us oh well you do n't need to be rehoused because you 've made this so very nice you see , anyway I then started to work for the Corporation and then there was the possibility of course |
| 7 | Gilman employed ‘ scientific ’ experiments described by him as follows : ‘ The observer , an intelligent man with good eyesight , and well accustomed to museums and their contents , was instructed to answer the questions with the least possible exertion and to hold the position he needed to assume for the purpose until he could be photographed . ’ |
| 8 | He and Maureen decided to live for the day and not worry about what the future would bring for them , good or bad . |
| 9 | I loved to stop for the night but dreaded the effort of making camp . |
| 10 | After all , Mozart was only five when he started composing for the piano and look what happened to him . |
| 11 | I decided to make for the orchard and the safety of my own trench . |
| 12 | By making this distinction , Miliband sought to account for the fact that the state is not always an instrument of the ruling class , even though , in terms of ownership and control of the economy , a ruling class clearly existed . |
| 13 | He failed to allow for the fact that Lucasta Redburn could not bear to throw away anything that might one day come in useful . |
| 14 | When I sold CBS the video I kept apologising for the movement because it was so shaky . |
| 15 | They knew that physically Rose could do much more than she was willing to try , so they kept searching for the key that would restore her will to live without being , unnecessarily , a burden on others . |
| 16 | Downstairs , Elsie Hogan , the bloom of youth scoured from her skeleton , lay waiting for the haemorrhage that would end it all . |
| 17 | But each could and did act for the other when necessary ; and English diplomats abroad frequently corresponded with both . |
| 18 | Lynagh elected to play for the try and history now records his match-winning touchdown in the corner when brilliantly scooping up David Campese 's desperate in-field pass . |
| 19 | You had to wait for the flash and details of the changes in interest rates on Black Wednesday — a day of vital interest for small businessmen and mortgage holders up and down the country . |
| 20 | To our relief , she missed out on all the formalities except for a perfunctory cry of ‘ GamBei ’ ( ‘ Down the hatch ’ ) and ‘ Greetings to our British friends ’ , and concentrated on tucking into the excellent meal — she gave the impression that she had come for the food and drink and nothing else . |
| 21 | People in the city had voted for the metro but others in LA county had effectively vetoed the project . |
| 22 | Of these , 1,876,957 ( 89.21 per cent ) had voted for the charter and 213,817 ( 10.16 per cent ) against . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A Notts member from 1949–50 , he set himself the task of tracing every man who either had played for the county or gone from there to play for another county : ‘ I had no particular idea of being a historian or publishing anything , and I was n't particularly worried about the Hardstaffs , the Larwoods and the other famous players . |
| 25 | All had volunteered for the study and received two full days ' training before its start . |
| 26 | He had reached for the Ruger as soon as he had seen the taxi pull up , and he had had the Ruger in his grip when the front door opposite had opened , and he had loosened the grip when he had seen that the target carried no cases , only had his daughters ’ hands in his . |
| 27 | It was only after he had asked for the bill that he said something that had her on guard again , although there was nothing about his lazy , ‘ Enjoy the party , did you , by the way ? ’ that should have caused her muscles — including her tongue muscles , it seemed — to instantly tighten . |
| 28 | Meanwhile young George Stevens had run for the policeman and as soon as the man made off he was cornered by a party of men returning to the factory . |
| 29 | The dahabeeyah had moored for the night and the three girls had been up on the top deck enjoying the evening breeze . |
| 30 | Most of the Dutch-Belgians had fought for the Emperor and still wore the Emperor 's uniforms . |