Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | While Lee 's claims on Dickerson are evidently still large , perhaps he 'd better look for a new cinematographer now that his old pal has a director 's credit . |
| 3 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 4 | Salisbury , an eager nightwatchman , held out against some torrid deliveries midst some frantic appealing , and all seemed well set for a gripping fourth and fifth day . |
| 5 | He warned his players to expect a hostile reception in England and said : ‘ We came mentally prepared for a hard time and determined to give our answer out there on the field . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The day drew on , and Tagan scouted ahead to look for a possible camping site . |
| 8 | The Cabinet briefly discussed and rejected a dissolution and election on the issue and decided instead to try for a decisive election victory within three years . |
| 9 | Yes , Jewish doctors did indeed care for the Arab villagers then , although Mrs Zamzam had mispronounced the names . |
| 10 | This had some claim to be the hotbed of British fascism in the 1920s owing to the fact that Leese and a colleague had successfully stood for the local council on a British fascist policy in 1924 . |
| 11 | Clevedon Veals skipper Ray Bazeley had only planned for a small squad outing after their first choice match on the Nene at Peterborough was cancelled . |
| 12 | Otherwise she had only praise for the beautiful island . |
| 13 | If it did n't , I thought re-reading had better keep for a rainy day . |
| 14 | Yevgeny Primakov , Mr Gorbachev 's envoy in Gulf matters , had already appealed for the full ground war to be delayed until the Iraqis cough up their answer . |
| 15 | Maulvi Farooq was a moderate who had peacefully campaigned for an independent Kashmir , an option opposed by both India and Pakistan . |
| 16 | Jarvis had set up a trestle table on that terrace where pupils had once assembled for the annual school photograph . |
| 17 | However , the plaintiffs had also asked for a winding up order under s 122(1) ( g ) of the Insolvency Act 1986 . |
| 18 | The exiled monarch had also called for an immediate end to military rule . |
| 19 | He had also arranged for a small box of hand-made chocolates to be given to each of them upon departure . |
| 20 | They had both hoped for a classic siege manoeuvre : a complete blockade of supplies , followed when the city was weak by an assault over ditches infilled by themselves , and preceded by feints , night attacks and heavy bombardment . |
| 21 | The previous Director , Tomás Llorens , had originally planned for the permanent collection to open in January 1991 , but a variety of circumstances , including differences with the Ministry of Finance and a change of Directors , have conspired to delay the opening for seventeen months . |
| 22 | Early in June 1689 Edinburgh Castle , which had been held for James , surrendered , but Blair Castle , at Blair Atholl in Perthshire , eight miles [ 13 km ] north-west of Pitlochry , had now declared for the Jacobite cause . |
| 23 | Government spending had already been reviewed and cut substantially , but the time had now come for a great public gesture ; this was supplied by the appointment of the Geddes Committee , a typical Lloyd George manoeuvre using businessmen instead of MPs or ministers . |
| 24 | God , thought Dalziel as he had frequently thought for the past twenty years , you 're the most miserable-looking bugger I ever saw . |
| 25 | It was not clear from the report whether they had even applied for the available student loan or help from their college 's access fund . |
| 26 | A NATO emergency meeting had been held in Brussels on Aug. 3 , and the USA had reportedly pressed for a possible NATO " out-of-area " military response , a theme repeated when Bush and Thatcher met NATO secretary-general Manfred Wörner in Washington on Aug. 6 . |
| 27 | Significantly , however , the PAC , which had consistently called for the immediate transfer of power from the white minority , agreed to negotiations with the de Klerk regime . |
| 28 | Perhaps half of those who had previously voted for the middle-class parties now voted for the NSDAP . |
| 29 | But by the time of the Hinkley C Inquiry , the CEGB had firmly opted for the Pressurized Water Reactor . |
| 30 | Before the election many UN officials had privately hoped for a close result . |