Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [adv] [vb past] for the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ God it was awful , ’ he said , and made them laugh and accept what he said , and Barnett never asked for the certificate this time .
2 In the late 1960s and the early 1970s , Greimas , Todorov , Genette , and Barthes all argued for the autonomy of narrative theory with respect to its object .
3 The second came when Bennett and Carter both went for the ball , which bounced off the pair of them and again into the net .
4 Goldstein and colleagues also argued for the cessation of contact between a child and his birth parents once the child was with new carers such as in adoption or long-term foster care .
5 But Meh'Lindi neither gestured for the hypodermic nor did she abandon Grimm .
6 Other boxers would have tried to cause the maximum damage , but Eubank calmly waited for the referee to do his job properly and stop the fight .
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