Example sentences of "who [vb past] [adv] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In time to come , will someone else walk these halls and remember the Wolfqueen who lived here for a time , but who brought the Cruithin out of hiding , and drove Medoc from the Bright Palace ?
2 It was platonic , for Louis was a man who lived only for the cause .
3 Imprisoned as a loan resister in 1627 , he was one of the ‘ five knights ’ who applied unsuccessfully for a writ of habeas corpus .
4 ‘ I do n't mind , ’ Caroline laughed , holding out her arms to the child , who came willingly for a cuddle .
5 Guest of honour was Brigadier Garton who came up for the evening from his base at Catterick Garrison .
6 It is interesting to see the gravestones of the numerous people who came here for a cure for consumptive diseases and remained for ever .
7 The 24 runners included six from the site Fire Brigade , bravely running in their waterproof overtrousers and braces , and two from CSD 's Brussels staff who came over for the occasion .
8 Thus Jasper 's father might have been the man who was painting the flats and who came in for a cup of tea , or the old lover whom she happened to run into in Denmark Hill , or the neighbour who was moving out of Flat 16 and who came up to say goodbye while his girlfriend was packing their furniture into the rented van .
9 In 1980 we changed to a system of community and private nurses who came in for an hour or two in the morning and evening .
10 Close behind is his son , Simon , who came along for the ride on his 1916 600cc Douglas , which falls outside the official December 1914 entry date .
11 Among the groups in Essex who carried on the tradition yesterday were members of the Great Tey Footpath Preservation Society and villagers from neighbouring Chappel , who teamed up for a 14-mile walk around the boundaries of the two parishes .
12 Each of the four rounds was played as a pro-am four-ball , with a professional , a celebrity who was usually from show business and two amateurs , who paid handsomely for the privilege .
13 Like the Eighties terrace tearaways in Britain who showed up for the match in Barbour jackets and deerstalkers , these B- boys were appropriating the ruling class style and parading it with a sardonic grin .
14 With the pitch playing easily , the tail wagged , led by Morrison , who hung around for an hour while England fretted .
15 Paul Goodman , the American anarchist writer ; Stokeley Carmichael , the 26-year-old Trinidadian-born New Yorker whose black nationalism had just triumphed within SNCC ; Laing and Cooper ; Ginsberg-whose contribution took the form of a mantra , American radical journalists John Gerassi on the Third World ; Trotskyist theoretician Ernest Mandel ; William Burroughs ; Angela Davis , the Californian activist and academic ; the Marxist historian and biographer of Trotsky , Isaac Deutscher ; the San Francisco digger , Emmett Grogan , who popped up for a fringe meeting ‘ still loaded with the sleepiness of heroin' ; and Herbert Marcuse .
16 Sally Hawes , the Secretary , is a young woman , recently married , who trained as a stenographer and who worked previously for a building firm .
17 Forwards and backs combined as Melrose charged for the Jed line from well inside their own territory with Gary Parker managing to evade Liddle before feeding his front row colleague who went over for the try .
18 A MOTORIST who went out for a drive in his new car ended up at death 's door after a knife attack in the street .
19 The intermediary in the deal was Christoph Graf Douglas , head of Sotheby 's Germany , who pleaded strongly for the collection to remain intact in Germany .
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