Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] for the [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 | He 'd probably asked for the best sherry available , she rightly guessed . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Yes , Jewish doctors did indeed care for the Arab villagers then , although Mrs Zamzam had mispronounced the names . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When we had all assembled for the first plenary session to approve the agenda , I was all ready with my dissenting speech when it was announced by the Secretary General that the additional items would be included in the agenda if the other matters already there were completed in time to consider additional ones . |
| 8 | Otherwise she had only praise for the beautiful island . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Jarvis had set up a trestle table on that terrace where pupils had once assembled for the annual school photograph . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | God , thought Dalziel as he had frequently thought for the past twenty years , you 're the most miserable-looking bugger I ever saw . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In the eighteen months since Mrs Thatcher had taken up employment at Dickins and Jones , the mood of the Party had perceptibly changed for the better , the great bulk of the membership having transferred its loyalty smoothly from the old Leader to the new . |
| 17 | Perhaps half of those who had previously voted for the middle-class parties now voted for the NSDAP . |
| 18 | But by the time of the Hinkley C Inquiry , the CEGB had firmly opted for the Pressurized Water Reactor . |
| 19 | Campion Price had never cared for the emotional welfare of his wife — let alone his daughters ! |
| 20 | The patient recovered but needed further glucose infusions for recurring hypoglycaemia and remained somewhat confused for the next 48 h . |
| 21 | It was n't hell working for Faye , and as she sat there waiting for the medical staff to leave the artist 's room , Belinda realised , I 've changed . |