Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | So Morag when she came down , came down for the whole week . |
| 32 | We splashed and laughed and played together for a long time , sharing their delight at looking underwater through a diving mask for the first time . |
| 33 | The paths of two lives , or three to be exact , came together for a little while and then separated . |
| 34 | Some thirty graduates of the degree came together for an excellent meal in University House , followed by an informal update from one of the joint organisers of the reunion , Keith Moffitt , on the whereabouts of those who had been unable to attend . |
| 35 | After four weeks every group had interviewed four of the original subjects , plus others who came in for a single session , and they had all accumulated a great amount of material . |
| 36 | This meant that the married women left at home came in for a large share of the work about the croft . |
| 37 | Here and elsewhere , the police also came in for a fair amount of criticism — Punch portrayed London 's genial giants Gog and Magog dressed as policeman , defending themselves from the wrath of the respectable populace — and there were perfectly sound reasons for such discontent . |
| 38 | Specifically , in the case of Anthony Miers , the Royal Navy submariner who finally came in for a teeny bit of criticism over his methods of disposing of German seamen who rather inconveniently surrendered . |
| 39 | He went out and Sisteradmission-ward came in for a short while , and we reconstructed the story . |
| 40 | Strachan was inspirational , and his goal was the highlight of the match — running at the defence , he twisted through for a fine shot about fifteen yards out . |
| 41 | Solomona blasted over for an important try just before the break after smart interpassing with Sheals . |
| 42 | I came over for a short visit when my parents first moved here … ’ |
| 43 | Ironically , the protest had nothing to do with the South Africans who were as warmly received as they had been in Jamaica and Trinidad , greeted and feted by the government and watched by Prime Ministers Erskine Sandiford of Barbados and P.J. Patterson of Jamaica who came specially for the historic occasion , the first Test ever played between teams previously kept apart by the ideology of racial superiority . |
| 44 | There was an hour of cleaning and a change of crew before we finally lifted off for the short leg down to Abu Dhabi . |
| 45 | At the end of September Violet came home for a long weekend and Perdita was so bloody-minded that in despair Daisy escaped to Harvest Festival for an hour of peace . |
| 46 | As journalists were given the first glimpse inside the mall on Wednesday , managers from developer Burton Property Trust geared up for a major marketing exercise . |
| 47 | It was n't only the seeds of oats ; the cornfields usually contained quantities of weeds like chickweed , spurrey and charlock and it was on all these that the skylarks , twite and rock doves fattened up for the coming winter . |
| 48 | They all just came back for a regular routine follow up , just a little bit late . |
| 49 | ‘ An alternative theory is that the killer knocked him out first , then went into the washroom to strip and came back for the final throat-cutting before Berowne had a chance to come round . |
| 50 | The NIH report , noting that Dr O'Toole ‘ suffered substantially for the simple act of raising questions about the accuracy of a scientific paper ’ , describes her actions as ‘ heroic in many respects ’ . |
| 51 | Even Archibald earl of Argyll , nearing the end of a long life noted mainly for a remarkable inability to make decisions , now found ‘ boldness ’ in him ; he ‘ reformed many things ’ , we are told , and , despite the strictures of archbishop Hamilton , he maintained the Protestant preacher John Douglas in his household . |
| 52 | She drove out for an early lunch at a small diner down the road and was back at the cabin by half past twelve . |
| 53 | The angels promenaded in neat and pleasing lines , three witches cavorted wildly for a brief moment , and some of the singers were given a few simple but effective steps . |
| 54 | Juul was undefeated by an opponent in his four scheduled rides although in heat 13 when he came out for an extra race he was disqualified for unfair riding when bringing down Donny Odom and Steve Regeling . |
| 55 | In Budapest , they still strolled around for the sheer pleasure of it . |
| 56 | She did that for half an hour and he only came round for a short time . |
| 57 | Treasury , in its 295 page August 1987 document on education , opted predictably for an open market , hands-of policy in which schools , if left to their own devices , will become more efficient and accountable to their customers . |
| 58 | In November Lord Lansdowne , an aged , distinguished and highly conservative Tory politician , convinced that continuation of the war would lead to the collapse of the social order , appealed publicly for a negotiated peace . |
| 59 | Anyway , he waffled on for a little while about everything that did n't matter and then … ’ she swallowed ‘ … then he got down to it and told me about everything that did . ’ |
| 60 | Furthermore , even if a woman paid in for a full pension she had to pass the ‘ half test ’ ; that is , she had to work for at least half of her married life before she could count in her contributions both before and after marriage ( Groves , 1983 , pp. 45–7 ) . |