Example sentences of "[vb past] for the [adj] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the hounds checked for the fourth time and could no. find again no matter how the huntsman held them round , Nora and Sir George withdrew . |
| 2 | He applied for the first chair and then thought better of it and withdrew the application ; refused to apply for the second despite the supplications of Cambridge friends ; and finally applied for the third , the chair of primacy , the regius chair made vacant by the retirement of Charles Raven . |
| 3 | He only entered for the Foreign Office and the block plan , with a total of ten drawings , and was awarded one of the fifth prizes for his Foreign Office design . |
| 4 | When he reported for the necessary swearing and documentation , the local recruiting officer and his staff were understandably disappointed that Harold could tell them nothing about what his duties were to be . |
| 5 | This is a combination of the list we used for the first plan and the list used for the draft of the second plan . |
| 6 | When he came back , he tried for the Anglican priesthood and was rejected . ’ |
| 7 | He opted for the latter route and took up the gauntlet he saw set before him by steeling himself for a career as a boxer , a career in which he distinguished himself as a man of immense resolve and purposefulness . |
| 8 | Beta for the 486 version has stretched to September with OEM delivery rescheduled for the fourth quarter and the likelihood of shrink-wrap pushed into 1993 . |
| 9 | The doctor came for the last time and said , ‘ Yes , he 's going now . ’ |
| 10 | We played for the British ambassador and some Irish teachers and workers who were out there . |
| 11 | Yes they just had one maybe one melodeon or one fiddle , but played for the whole dance and you could hear it from end to end of the hall . |
| 12 | I arrived for the American premiere and these ghosts made no sense at all . |
| 13 | ‘ We opened for the first time and we 're doing extremely well , ’ said assistant manager Greg Hughes . |
| 14 | She records that , when his Regt embarked for the Crimean campaign and fears were expressed for his safety , she took the hopeful view that ‘ so much prayer was made for him , we ought to believe that a special providence would be extended over him . |
| 15 | No , no ; that sounded too much like the Bible , so she plumped for the simple way and finished , ‘ He has given her a baby . ’ |
| 16 | The principal members were a private secretary , Oliver Everett , who worked for the diplomatic service and was recalled from Madrid to set up her office ; and Anne Beckwith-Smith , a specialist in eighteenth-century English painting , who worked at Sotheby 's and was brought in as full-time lady-in-waiting . |
| 17 | Doctor Howe worked for the Open University and was based at their centre at Boars Hill on the outskirts of Oxford . |
| 18 | Outside , Tallis called for the young hunter and Scathach called back , emerging from the children 's lodge . |
| 19 | That went for the washed cup and saucer from the last cup of tea too . |
| 20 | ‘ A word about your weapons , gentlemen , ’ he smarmed , then he went for the quick draw and levelled a long-barrelled pistol at all of us . |
| 21 | Heart racing , she felt for the dangling cord and flooded the room with light just as the door closed quietly . |
| 22 | In my opinion the Italian Federation should even now refund substantial sums of money to all the countries that attended for the dreadful food and facilities . |
| 23 | " That evening King Darzin sent for the chief taster and asked him whether the lettuces were ready . |
| 24 | Now Houghton reached for the first file and took out the piece of card that bore the fingerprints of a possible match . |
| 25 | She reached for the empty plate and coffee-cups . |
| 26 | She reached for the little wrist and laid her fingers against the inside . |
| 27 | He took the receiver firmly out of her hand , listened for the dialling tone and dialled the second number . |
| 28 | And forgetting , startled , she looked for the hovering colour and saw a rainbow forming itself . |
| 29 | THE WAITS were a group of four musicians or minstrels who performed for the local corporation and received a badge and annual payment for their services . |
| 30 | Yesterday he smiled for the last time and said he did not wish to obstruct the work of Prime Minister Hans Modrow — who now constitutes , with a small group of associates from Dresden , the only remaining acceptable face of reform within the East German Communist Party . |