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

  Next page
No Sentence
1 It was the first time two West Indian batsmen had made a century stand for the sixth wicket in each innings of a Test and it took the game right away from England ; when the last wicket fell , Logie was left unbeaten on 95 , the score was 397 , and England had to survive for the best part of two days .
2 There were still bits and pieces left to organize for the coming weekend , when she was hosting the first major social gathering of the new year .
3 This was still some way from a mathematical science , and chemists continued to look for the Kepler or the Newton of Chemistry who would make it deductive and mathematical .
4 He and Maureen decided to live for the day and not worry about what the future would bring for them , good or bad .
5 However , before the electron microscope was available , in fact in 1937 , Andrade and Tsien decided to look for the cracks by the method of decoration , using of course an optical microscope .
  Next page