Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb past] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The overwhelming majority of Russians — some 83 per cent in the 1989 census — lived in the Russian Republic , where they accounted for the same proportion of the local population . |
| 2 | In 1837 he was apprenticed to his uncle James S. Stirling at Dundee foundry , where he worked for the next six years and where some locomotives were built for the Arbroath and Forfar Railway which influenced his own later designs . |
| 3 | The train braked to a shuddering halt at the Paisley signal box where it remained for the next thirty minutes whilst the driver and guard proceeded to examine the underside and topside of the train . |
| 4 | ‘ Better than you did for the entire evening . ’ |
| 5 | No , no ; that sounded too much like the Bible , so she plumped for the simple way and finished , ‘ He has given her a baby . ’ |
| 6 | She suddenly wanted to throw something at him , anything , needing to hurt him as she was hurting , but could n't actually reach his ambitious heart , so she aimed for the next best thing : his self-respect . |
| 7 | We decided we were n't going to get on without flirting with a lot of trouble , so we opted for the trusty 1-iron again . |
| 8 | It seemed to fly OK , so we prepared for the 482 kilometres water crossing to Australia . |
| 9 | But you need real people for a proper gloat so we headed for the cardboard suburb in the Strand . |
| 10 | She watched him walk away along the corridor heading back towards the club , her heart feeling lighter than it had for the past week . |
| 11 | For the top and intermediate Party leadership , Hitler 's image stood therefore in far closer relationship to reality than it did for the broad mass of the population . |
| 12 | It took longer for the territories with loud speakers to be occupied than it did for the silent territories ( Figure 6.2 ) . |
| 13 | Later I tell C that if I worked for the Daily Star , I 'd have my story already . |
| 14 | If they went for the traditional look I suppose they 'd all be wearing hard hats that looked like the flat cap Victorian cyclists always wore . |
| 15 | Trent waited until they made for the upriver side , then charged forward uncaring . |
| 16 | It was a private lair , and though they 'd often wished to have a fire they 'd never done so — not because they feared for the dry wood of the spinney but because they knew that rising smoke would sooner or later be investigated . |
| 17 | Perhaps the most significant intellectual advance of the mid-20th century was indeed made by Karl Popper , not because he provided any kind of method for scientists to pursue ( as he decidedly did not ) but because he showed for the first time in formal philosophy , that science is inescapably a human activity , and that if its underlying human-ness is ever shelved it is only temporarily , and for convenience , to ameliorate human frailty . |
| 18 | In 1960 the Rat Pack — Sinatra , Lawford , Martin , Davis and Bishop — came together to make Ocean 's Eleven , a caper that became a classic only because it featured for the first time the nucleus of the clan . |
| 19 | Even the Darwinian theory of evolution was impressive , not because the concept of evolution was new — it had been familiar for decades — but because it provided for the first time a satisfactory explanatory model for the origin of species , and did so in terms which were entirely familiar even to non-scientists , since they echoed the most familiar concept of the liberal economy , competition . |
| 20 | After a short discussion on the merits of the duck , he decided to join her ; and while they waited for the first course to arrive , he regaled her with a colourful account of that afternoon 's meeting in the history department to sort out the timetable . |
| 21 | The minutes dragged while they listened for the first hum of the approaching helicopter . |
| 22 | His lips clamped together and he raised one corner of his thin mouth in a spiteful leer , his large bald head nodding deliberately to and fro while he waited for the younger man 's response . |
| 23 | He stopped and Carrie saw his mouth tremble while he searched for the right words to say how mean and horrible Mr Evans was . |
| 24 | ‘ Like your party trick with the neutrino collectors and the hymetusite : we could n't have scaled it up enough to solve Earth 's energy shortfall , but it could have supported us here whilst we searched for the long-term solution — the high-mass elements in Lucifer 's core . ’ |
| 25 | I suppose it depended on whether you went for the older man , which , speaking for herself , Rosie did n't and never had done and was , anyway , leaving to stay with the Spratlings at Porto Ercole and then , perhaps , driving down to Rome to see poor old Jack Gerontius , who had n't long to go , and after that , who knew ? |
| 26 | When she had finished hanging out the washing , before she went for the weekly shop at SavaCentre , Sara applied her lipstick , and around her throat she squirted the toilet water which she had had for three years and never before used . |
| 27 | In the final game Waikato took the honours 28–24 , leafing Rugby Canada to wonder just how long it would be before they won for the first time on New Zealand soil . |
| 28 | Vocals went straight down with only the minimum of top end EQ to keep them sharp , and when I went for the final mixdown I have to say I was amazed at how big a sound was coming back from the monitors . |
| 29 | When I worked for the Daily Telegraph , the editor , Bill Deedes , would say that he never missed the letters column of the Guardian . |
| 30 | I felt frightened as I waited for the mysterious man . |