Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [adv] [vb past] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , it was about the time that David and I both auditioned for Hair and we were both turned down which I thought was quite funny because it seemed that just about everyone else in London got the part , but we were very much the kind of solo singers and perhaps the wrong type . |
| 2 | But the tumour continued to grow and she finally opted for surgery and chemotherapy . |
| 3 | Ever since she had come to Norfolk the skies had been grey , and she suddenly longed for warmth . |
| 4 | Her own petit friture was a plateful of tiny fish , crisply fried and sprinkled with garlic , and they both opted for guinea fowl casseroled in red wine , and so tender it almost fell off the bone , with sautéd potatoes and cabbage cooked in butter , as their main course . |
| 5 | They would lie for hours , hardly moving , before a sudden noise startled them and they instinctively dived for cover . |
| 6 | Alan 's by-line was to be seen as a foreign correspondent for a number of national papers including the Daily Express , Daily Sketch , Sunday Times and he also wrote for Mail on Sunday . |
| 7 | Perhaps ; but I 've never seen any particular virtue in consistency , and it certainly made for variety . |
| 8 | Pressing for the abolition of the pernicious fee system had been an obvious target but he also pressed for liquor taps to be banned and the sale of drink to inmates to be closely regulated ; for the gaolers to be resident at the gaol instead of offering only minimal supervision if they lived away from it ; for the provision of chaplains and doctors and the detailing and publishing of prison rules and regulations . |
| 9 | Not only did Mr Solarz support a war that most liberal Democrats regarded as an invitation to disaster , but he actively pushed for confrontation with Iraq — linking arms in the process with such unlikely conservative allies as Richard Perle and Jeane Kirkpatrick . |