Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | At £17.50 a ticket , I expected the band to come on for a bit longer or were they all dashing off to see Lady Chatterley too ? |
| 2 | She let a draft go through for wages when Stevenson 's had no funds in that particular bank to cover it . |
| 3 | These factors , coupled with the abolition of scale charges for conveyancing , caused the lawyers to cast around for alternative sources of income . |
| 4 | The convention which it produced was signed by 119 delegations but the problems which caused the conference to drag on for so long are anything but solved . |
| 5 | FREE-market economics took on a new meaning last week as schools received an invitation to shop around for the cheapest General Certificate of Secondary Education exams . |
| 6 | Market experts foresee a recovery this year from the recent sharp falls ; more realistic estimates are enticing buyers back to the salerooms and the Spring sales showed the market firming up for many European sculptors . |
| 7 | Number eight Dave Cook provided excellent support and it was his pass to Steve Glen that allowed the scrum-half to scamper over for the score . |
| 8 | This had been of something more than philosophical interest to Karen and I in our pre-coital phase , since it meant that we could count on at least a minute thirty seconds before he reappeared , or as much as three minutes forty-five seconds if we heard the seat go down for a big jobby . |
| 9 | You watched the watched the shysters watched out for the shysters . |
| 10 | He watched the cashier ring through for a clearance and had been surprised when it was accepted . |
| 11 | Occasionally , after refreshments — two would go in at two o'clock , two more at half past two , and so on — the only time you could have a natter with your colleague was when you left the station and you saw the sergeant going in for his refreshments . |
| 12 | But this week I went along to ‘ the other Headingley ’ where he plies his trade week-in , week-out to talk to him about his hopes and ambitions and how he saw the season panning out for his big-spending club . |
| 13 | Although not a political animal she saw the need to speak up for the Africans ; articulate on their behalf when so often they were not given opportunity to speak for themselves . |
| 14 | While few serious historians have defended Communist excesses , some have argued that it was only the strategy in whose name they were committed that enabled the Republic to fight on for as long as it did . |
| 15 | It was a recent television series called Heroes II — The Return , which brought the memories flooding back for Bernard Seyburn . |
| 16 | I had the kitchen made over for Joan . |
| 17 | On the last day of term the school assembled in the large upstairs room which had the screens pulled back for the occasion . |
| 18 | And they had the time worked out for every policeman the length of time he was allowed to travel from court to home and back again and you added that time to the time you were engaged in court and it was worked out to the minute — worked out officially how long it took the tram . |
| 19 | Keighley were not keen to visit the Humbersiders on Saturday because they claim that they had a sponsor lined up for a home game . |
| 20 | Bernard was on a round the world trip and he had a system worked out for the South American leg that seemed to be based on the storming of Himalayan peaks . |
| 21 | OMAGH TOWN had a man sent off for the third game in a row as they were outclassed at Shamrock Park . |
| 22 | Oh yes , I had a gentleman turn up for some physio on his arm . |
| 23 | That was my original they had a competition to look out for people who 've got ideas about this new idea , it was a ridiculous idea to do a competition cos people did n't know what they were entering for , half the parishes were n't notified about it , |
| 24 | Cork hit the post in a desperate finish , but Quakers were caught on the break with only two minutes left when Warren Joyce broke down the right and crossed perfectly for the unmarked Jepson , who only minutes before had a goal ruled out for offside , to grab his second from close range . |
| 25 | Yes you 're actually e sitting outside the original house , as it was built cos we had a room put on for the the back here originally . |
| 26 | Sometimes she thought that she and William both had a need to make up for those lost ten years . |
| 27 | Sikes and Nancy gave him no chance to escape and Oliver had no breath to call out for help . |
| 28 | Middlesbrough Council is chasing businesses in the town who missed the deadline to sign up for food safety under the Food Premises Registration Regulations . |
| 29 | Normally , unless you have one of these keys , you would have to call the water company 's engineers if you wanted the mains turned off for any reason — perhaps to work on the mains stopcock inside the house . |