Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [vb pp] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Then three years ago , she lost her hearing and seemed destined for a life of isolation before she underwent the operation .
2 Mr. Lennis sent for me and said that Mr. Andrew was feeling run down , and had gone for a cruise in one of the ships , the Emily T. I kept expecting a letter or a postcard from him , but nothing came .
3 John Mumford had been a curate in the Church of England with a significant ministry and had gone for a year 's sabbatical to California .
4 Styling himself ‘ Dr. Isaac Titford ’ , he had been commissioned surgeon ( not by any means so prestigious a profession then as now ) in the first battalion , Sixtieth Royal American Regiment , and had lived for a while in Virginia ; he was also giving his enterprising spirit full reign out there in the West Indies , fathering the odd quadroon or two , dabbling in the slave trade , a postmaster at Spanish Town , a partner in a firm of druggists in Kingston and the owner of a coffee and pimento plantation .
5 He had thrown aside his own robe then , and had stood for a moment looking down at her , the firelight playing over his body , and Grainne had felt her senses tumble , for surely , oh surely there had never been anything so beautiful and so strong …
6 Saúl Ubaldini , secretary-general of the CGT and leader of the Azopardo wing , had opposed the austerity policies of President Carlos Saúl Menem , and had stood for the Congress in September 1991 but was heavily defeated [ see p. 38434 ] .
7 He had gone then to the Syrian Embassy and had applied for a visa for himself , for his English-born wife , for his two daughters .
8 We had spent an hour or two in the hraun and had stopped for a rest when a huge white-tailed eagle came flying past .
9 They were local women and had joined for a job , but they were grandmotherly in a way , just the sort of people the younger girls needed .
10 Rebecque , in Braine-le-Comte , had news both from the Prussians and from Dornberg in Mons. The French had advanced north from Charleroi , but had turned eastwards to attack Blücher and had halted for the night at a village called Fleurus .
11 Jordan later discovered that two of his party had managed to get away and had made for the rendezvous point which the group aiming for Martuba was to use .
12 He was in fact an employee rather than an independent agent and had worked for the defendants for 17 years .
13 Any new vein discovered , but left unwrought for the space of six months after notice was given by the estate to the captain or purser of the mine , could be licenced to any other person to work .
14 The Crick Committee , which had been appointed in 1961 and reported on A Higher Award in Business Studies in 1964 , had originally been looking for an equivalent of the DipTech , but had waited for the Robbins Report before issuing its recommendations .
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