Example sentences of "[vb past] for [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He led for most of the first 60 laps but was forced to make a tyre change . |
| 2 | An internal inquiry has been carried out by Ealing social services , in whose area Christopher lived for most of the last weeks of his life , but no serious professional errors were found . |
| 3 | At the Lefevre there were only four oils , including Fishing Canoe ( Colour Plate XVII ) and Banana Plantation ( Colour Plate XVI ) , both priced at forty guineas , twice the sum asked for most of the thirty-eight watercolours . |
| 4 | But the study also reported for one of the five countries that babies of teenagers were at higher risks of birth defects , sudden death and other problems of birth and early infancy than were infants born to women in their early 20s . |
| 5 | The Cook Antonello has been offered privately for some time , being turned down by both the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Polish/American heiress Basia Johnson , the latter dissuaded by her advisors Derek Johns and the late Adrian Ward-Jackson ( see The Art Newspaper No. 1 , Oct. 1990 , p. 17 ) , who held that it was a copy by Andrea Solario after a lost prototype by Antonello , an opinion that originated with Bernard Berenson in 1895 , and one that stuck for most of the twentieth century . |
| 6 | ‘ For two years after college graduation , I worked for one of the small local accounting firms . |
| 7 | I worked for one of the youngest couples on our street , who were so chic they even had an Afghan hound . |
| 8 | The governments ' answer , it seems , is to go back to the ERM as it worked for most of the 1980s — a more flexible ERM , in which exchange-rate realignments happened now and then , instead of being resisted at all costs . |
| 9 | Sally Varna stepped out of her bath , reluctant to leave the froth of delicately scented bubbles , reached for one of the enormous pink towels the maid had laid out ready for her and wrapped herself in it . |
| 10 | Rather than looking at the proposal we decided that it was so that 's what we did really and that 's why , if you have a look down there right , so all we 're doing then we 're working through the resources and allocating them room numbers erm and then when that 's done so that 's what we did for each of the little rooms . |
| 11 | Matthew 25 : 35–40 ’ … whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine , you did for me . ’ |
| 12 | The Battle of the Atlantic lasted for most of the Second World War . |
| 13 | If such attitudes are now considered contemptible , it should be remembered that the policy of segregation continued for most of the twentieth century and many people still believe today that mentally handicapped people should be isolated and prevented from having children , even though the hereditary risks are low and can , in most cases , be discounted . |
| 14 | Such accidental attacks also accounted for 72 of the 467 US personnel wounded in the conflict . |
| 15 | The situation was particularly disturbing in the state of Bihar , which alone accounted for three-quarters of the latter group . |
| 16 | Japan did not , moreover , have a primate city that accounted for most of the urban population . |
| 17 | That accounted for three of the final 11.7-point rise in the FT-SE 100-Share Index to 2,828.7 yesterday . |
| 18 | It remained for one of the great investigators of the Laboulbeniales to settle the question of their true affinities . |
| 19 | Sometimes you heard a soft splash as a fish jumped for one of the swarming insects . |
| 20 | These were ‘ asymmetrical cyclical troughs ’ because recovery of output was spread over a much longer period than its initial loss , and because many factories closed for good in the second recession . |