Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Considering themselves to be superior , they cared little for the ordinary person and looked down on the sinners . |
| 2 | Lady Grace bridal gowns from Sposa Bella Manufacturing Ltd are designed and made especially for the larger bride in sizes 18–30 . |
| 3 | He stood for a moment laughing at her as she cast furiously for the vanished rabbit , and walked on , to catch her up , along the raised embankment . |
| 4 | After pulling on her clothes , she headed downstairs for the perfunctory glass of orange-juice which served as breakfast . |
| 5 | In Levene v Pearcey [ 1976 ] Crim LR 63 , a taxi-driver falsely told his passenger that the route was blocked and charged more for the longer way . |
| 6 | In second place Frank Emmelmann had to be at his very best as Linford Christie charged home for the British team , pushed all the way by Bruno Marie-Rose and Stefano Tilli , but the East German held on well as Linford was given the fastest ‘ anchor ’ split of 9.1 . |
| 7 | On our arrival at the Wildfowl Trust Refuge , we headed straight for the STOP-SPOT board in the foyer . |
| 8 | Most days Jo headed straight for the nearest john and took the hideous contraption off as soon as she was alone , muttering , ‘ If you got it , flaunt it ! ’ as she threw back her shoulders and felt the liberated flesh bounce free . |
| 9 | NCR Corp is now offering Japanese LAN Manager for Unix Systems OEM kit , Unix-based network operating system designed specifically for the Japanese market , and has already licensed it to Fujitsu Ltd , NEC Corp , Toshiba Corp and Nippon Unisys KK . |
| 10 | As well as Dobags , Anatolia produces a wide range of village-standard items , which may be either traditional in appearance or designed specifically for the Western market , and some notable workshop items , particularly from hereke and , to a lesser degree , Kayseria . |
| 11 | I remember he laughed and I noticed properly for the first time what a lovely blue his eyes were and a little thrill went through me . |
| 12 | It was on this trip that a remarkable partnership came together for the first time . |
| 13 | Four of the five protagonists of this story — Greco-Macedonians , Romans , Jews and Celts — came together for the first time in the Hellenistic period . |
| 14 | Susan came downstairs for the first time on Christmas Eve , and was genuinely delighted to see how pretty Breeze had made the sombre old dining-room . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | At about this time , the BBC offered him a World Service job based in London and , at the age of 30 , he came here for the first time . |
| 18 | She came across for the first time today , I was out egg yard getting some eggs |
| 19 | And another good old word is the crome , now er that was one I came across for the first time when I came into Suffolk , the crome . |
| 20 | The 12 governors met yesterday for the third time in a week at Bush House , in London . |
| 21 | On Oct. 25-27 the African National Congress ( ANC ) and the Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC — which had split from the ANC in 1959 — see p. 17449 ) , acted together for the first time since 1960 to become part of the Patriotic Front , an initiative launched to create a united front in negotiations with the Pretoria government . |
| 22 | It was The Association of Women Artists and Friends of Art in Berlin , an association of women artists , who banded together for the first time on 13 January , 1867 , to overcome some of the structural obstacles to women artists . |
| 23 | At a press conference held on April 30 Lee acknowledged officially for the first time the existence of a CCP-led government in Beijing . |
| 24 | The Chief of Staff of the Air Force , Vice-Marshal Momtazuddin Ahmed , confirmed publicly for the first time on May 10 the claim made eight days earlier by the head of the opposition Awami League Sheikh Hasina Wajed that there had been extensive damage to the country 's small fleet of aircraft . |
| 25 | He made straight for the big warhorse , mounted , said something to Will , and started along the street . |
| 26 | For the areas in our study there was a high degree of completeness of ascertainment from 1968 onwards for children aged 0–14 because these areas are included in the data collected prospectively for the Northern Region Children 's Malignant Disease Registry and all these cases were included in the National Registry of Childhood Tumours . |
| 27 | Last week he walked upstairs for the first time in three years and just burst into tears . |
| 28 | To all of them , Fry is Barnet , and without him there , few will have good reason to stay at Underhill , particularly as they alleged publicly for the first time yesterday that chairman Stan Flashman had physically threatened them . |
| 29 | She realised now for the first time that she had left her purse behind in Edward 's room . |
| 30 | After the Restoration of Charles II Mabbott petitioned successfully for the lucrative office of manager for licences of wine and strong waters in Ireland for himself and his eldest surviving son , Kympton , then aged seven , letters patent being granted in January 1661 . |