Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any decent sized salmon would be bound to show itself as it moved around waiting for the next tide to free it . |
| 2 | THREE-quarters of the track including half the through lines , the semaphore signals , the last vestiges of freight facilities and the last of the men who used proudly to work for the old railway company have gone , yet the long-distance service is faster , more frequent and above all better used than at any time in railway history , and the number of passengers passing through probably at an all time high . |
| 3 | He 'd probably asked for the best sherry available , she rightly guessed . |
| 4 | It is a curious miscellany , where photographs of his early ballets are mixed in with family snap-shots , pictures of his friends , souvenirs of journeys , Christmas and other greetings , a book of clothing coupons from the days of rationing , costume drawings and various illustrations cut from magazines , including a feature on Roland Petit 's ballet Carmen and examples of the ‘ new look ’ in women 's clothes when long skirts came back to fashion for the first time since the war ; he proposed a ballet about that , but it was rejected . |
| 5 | Am I glad we came out to work for the entire season , Rosie ! |
| 6 | This may have brought comfort to some but statistically it was as risky as playing Russian roulette , and I laid off smoking for the next seven years . |
| 7 | The outcome of the local government election showed little change for the main parties , and SDLP MP Eddie McGrady said the Secretary of State would see the results revealed nothing that he did not already know . |
| 8 | Most significantly , over two-thirds of those who turned out voted for the early election of a new parliament ( not now due until 1995 ) . |
| 9 | He then rushed off to prepare for the main service of the morning as the Minster bells began to ring out . |
| 10 | The Livingstones and Crichtons did this in 1439 , when they seized James II and then settled down to squabble for the next decade ; the Boyds did the same thing with James III ; and Angus found time , despite his matrimonial problems with Margaret Tudor , to get possession of James V in 1526 and dominate politics for the last two years of the minority . |
| 11 | Moodie , despite a clutch problem on his Honda , closed within four seconds at Ramsey on the final lap , but the 37 year-old Reid put the power down and pulled away to win for the second successive year . |
| 12 | I decided not to vote for the first time in 37 years because of the EC . |
| 13 | Putting the thoughts out of his head , he settled back to wait for the next people who could keep the Americans busy . |
| 14 | The Judaism of the Pharisees and Scribes did not care for the lost . |
| 15 | She did not care for the serious young men who toured the Home Office and the Treasury with her . |
| 16 | Tyroglyphus , harmless to the vine but a deadly enemy of Phylloxera vastatrix , was imported in 1873 in an attempt to kill off the pest ; unfortunately , however , unlike phylloxera , Tyroglyphus did not care for the European climate and failed to settle . |
| 17 | From the 19 patients with reflux oesophagitis , one subject did not arrive for the second measurement and dropped out . |
| 18 | La Carlotta did not sing for the first hour . |
| 19 | But relations between the youngsters and their adult minders did not change for the better . |
| 20 | So they gave excuses of shortage of time or involvement in other activities to explain why they did not register for the rural party cell . |
| 21 | Ray Parlour , having been caught heavily by former Gunner Kevin Richardson , did not return for the second half . |
| 22 | They could not afford to buy a horse , and although the richer peasants were more heavily taxed , this did not compensate for the wide difference in equipment , which was not taxed . |
| 23 | The difficulty is most apparent when discussing the Renaissance since by hypostatising science and art as two separate and separable activities Kemp is framing a problem that did not exist for the historical actors . |
| 24 | Sufficient funds did not exist for the fast rehabilitation of the railways , for the immediate implementation of mass education . |
| 25 | This is so stupid that you might wonder why the employers did not plump for the other alternative — until you come to look at it ! |
| 26 | Catholics , however , did not vote for the Unionist Party . |
| 27 | Ransom did not apply for the permanent job at financially-troubled Dudley — one of the lowest spending metropolitan authorities on social services . |
| 28 | It is unlikely that the ( insignificantly ) lower incidence of hypoglycaemia with human insulin in our study was due to loss of awareness and therefore reduced detection of hypoglycaemia because the incidence of severe and biochemical hypoglycaemic episodes did not differ for the two insulin species on routine monitoring . |
| 29 | Culture conflict between the British and Sri Lankans over the boundaries of crime , concepts of status and appropriate punishments was real , but it did not account for the general approach to the courts discussed earlier in this chapter . |
| 30 | Second , steady loss , albeit at differing rates from the two populations , did not account for the observed pattern . |