Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [vb past] for the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Julio Salinas and Michel scored for the Spaniards , while both Hungary 's goals came from Pinter . |
| 2 | And Na-dene did for the Jews . |
| 3 | His hunched figure padded across to the desk in the bay and Swod gestured for the police officer to sit down . |
| 4 | After the church ceremony , a horse and carriage waited for the newlyweds and took them to their reception , where an entertainer was waiting in the wings to take the children off the adults ' hands . |
| 5 | Padraig Flynn , the Irish Environment Minister , called for the closure of the nuclear reprocessing plant at Sellafield , on the north-west coast of England , and Norway , Sweden and Denmark called for the plans for another such plant at Dounreay in Scotland be cancelled . |
| 6 | In the Persian Wars , however , the Boiotian League had evidently not ordered a general policy , because Plataia and Thespiai fought for the Greeks whereas Thebes medised , a stain she was never to wipe out . |
| 7 | In the same year , Percy Shelley and Edward Williams drowned when the Don Juan sank in the Bay of Spezia , and Clairmont cared for the widows in the first few weeks . |
| 8 | Cameron 's father began writing plays again , and managements competed for the rights to stage each new mature masterpiece . |
| 9 | Hardy produced a pack of cards and , after dividing Gleeson 's box between them , he and Laurel played for the cigarettes as the van lurched and swayed away from the court , through the town centre and out to H.M. |