Example sentences of "[vb past] for the [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many years I consulted for the American GE in Schenectady and the thing that struck me there was the way that when they wanted to attack a particular area they could mount an army of people on it , all of whom were pretty good . ’ |
| 2 | It is the very particular choreographic style that MacMillan created for the child-like figure in Requiem that emphasises more strongly than any other of today 's ballets the need for choreographers to explore dance itself . |
| 3 | As the fire was crackling into life she headed for the small lavatory in the hall . |
| 4 | But you need real people for a proper gloat so we headed for the cardboard suburb in the Strand . |
| 5 | Leaving at midday he headed for the Tunisian coast in bad weather . |
| 6 | Like the Dutch family who came for the half-term holiday in late February one year . |
| 7 | In the 1912–13 season Harry was awarded Representative honours , when he played for the Southern League in all three inter-league fixtures against the Football League , the Scottish League and the League of Ireland . |
| 8 | He then went to South Africa with the FA summer touring side and played for the national team in one of the representative games . |
| 9 | The court heard how Cook , who worked for the Baptist Church in Corporation Road , Darlington , locked the girl in a room . |
| 10 | Before going into the cosmetic business she was a teacher , and worked for the United Nations in Geneva . |
| 11 | She worked for the British Council in the monolithic Spring Gardens building between the Mall and Trafalgar Square . |
| 12 | Originally started for the Lobkovic family in 1545 by Agostino Galli , it eventually came into the hands of the Schwarzenberg family . |
| 13 | I had never been a member of the Labour Party , and on the first occasion when I could claim a vote I voted for the Liberal candidate in the Hampstead constituency . |
| 14 | There can be little doubt that Nizan departed for the Soviet Union in January 1934 in a crusading spirit . |
| 15 | The Government is called upon to ensure that the Railway Inspectorate is adequately staffed and resourced for the increased responsibilities in the wake of the report . |
| 16 | His visit , during which he apologised for the French role in the Rainbow Warrior affair , marked a considerable improvement in bilateral relations [ see p. 38153 ; but see also p. 38345 for New Zealand condemnation of the honouring of the French agent involved in the Rainbow Warrior affair ] . |
| 17 | He withheld the signal until the range was close enough to be deadly , and the stocky Welsh ponies were stretching their frenzied necks and rigid nostrils for the impact , and then flung up his arm , and waited for the tremendous thrumming in the air , that maddening , intoxicating sound like a thousand wild geese all taking flight at once . |
| 18 | The painter Patrick Heron wrote for the New Statesman in London in the 1950s , and used this technique for writing about Braque , whom he compared with Picasso . |
| 19 | Glancing through a book I wrote for the Daily Telegraph in 1970 , I was struck by the gloom with which many men and women — but especially men — viewed the prospect of what could be their happiest and most satisfying years . |
| 20 | Her fragmentation into little states , split between Protestantism and Catholicism , has been exacerbated by a split between those who wanted Western or Eastern orientation : the West , represented by the rationalism and domination of France , the liberalism and mercantilism of England , or the modernism of the United States , stood for the individual standing in a contractual relationship to society , nation-statehood and world political power ; while the East , represented by Russia and Asia beyond implied culture , tradition , anti-modernism , barbarity , community and political romanticism . |