Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] for the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Motorways and high streets around the country ground to a halt as shoppers headed for the stores . |
| 32 | And the car — the car headed for the Monument , ’ explained Jack as his mother came slowly over . |
| 33 | Without a moment 's hesitation Stirling 's jeep headed for the runway , the fighting formation behind him . |
| 34 | ‘ Thanks , ’ Oliver called after him as Cobalt headed for the kitchen . |
| 35 | And whats more the club payed for the flags to be fireproofed when they realised what a potential fire hazard they were . |
| 36 | Charlotte Fischer , Emma Sokell and Sarah Spittle ran both for the College and the University Blues Team , and Vicki Edwards and Katherine Walker played for the University Women 's Tennis Team . |
| 37 | Because the $17,000 Dustin received for the picture was not enough to ensure any real security for himself , let alone Anne and the child , he was still not prepared to get married . |
| 38 | Using the 100-inch telescope on Mount Wilson , in 1923 Hubble identified for the first time a cepheid variable star in a spiral ‘ nebula ’ ( M 31 in Andromeda ) , and proceeded in the next few years to make similar discoveries in several other such ‘ nebulae ’ . |
| 39 | It has never done so — when the Task Force sailed for the Falklands , Britannia was left behind . |
| 40 | His hunched figure padded across to the desk in the bay and Swod gestured for the police officer to sit down . |
| 41 | Leeming signalled for the pad and took it from Duncan . |
| 42 | Some of the guilds were quite large , especially in the greater towns and cities , and wealthy enough to have not only their own chantry priest but also their own altars within the church , and there were even instances when funds allowed for the building of an additional aisle as a guild chapel . |
| 43 | Almodovar arrived for the Madrid premiere of TIE ME UP ! in a dustcart , proclaiming his solidarity with the gypsies who daily collect cardboard and wastepaper in such vehicles to earn a living . |
| 44 | Welling were originally told £2.70 , but when young Welling fans arrived for the match they found it was £3.90 . |
| 45 | Lucy paid for the coffee and the rolls full of ham and cheese . |
| 46 | gaps in the lexicon can be filled , when necessary , with new words coined for the purpose . |
| 47 | Donna paid for the teas and the two women walked out to the Fiesta and got in . |
| 48 | Now in pursuance of the premisses the said lords spirituall and temporall and commons in Parlyament assembled for the ratifying confirming and establishing the said declaration and the articles clauses matters and things therein contained by the force of a law made in due for me by authority of Parlyament doe pray that it may be declared and enacted that all and singular the rights and liberties asserted and claimed in the said declaration are the true auntient and indubitable rights and liberties of the people of this king dome and soe shall be esteemed allowed adjudged deemed and taken to be and that all and every the particulars aforesaid shall be firmly and strictly hold en and observed as they are expressed in the said declaration . |
| 49 | Tam paid for the drinks and they walked across to a table by the door . |
| 50 | I recognised Lingary 's name from the times Andy had talked about the Falklands ; he 'd been Andy 's CO , the one Andy blamed for the deaths of some of his men . |
| 51 | Therefore , the evidence supports the view that , over the periods studied , profitable arbitrage opportunities existed for the S&P500 . |
| 52 | The Hague Convention of 1965 reflects this general approach and in later inter-American discussions the United States pressed for the acceptance of that Convention as the basis for regional co-operation , but unavailingly . |
| 53 | It is understood that GGT pitched for the company 's media business as early as last August , without LH-S ' knowledge , and the decision to move the account was taken before Christmas . |
| 54 | The figure budgeted for the whole year had been 40,000 million roubles . |
| 55 | As a Group Captain , Dave Durkin was first at Medmenham from 1964–66 and no trophy existed for the match , but as a piece of ‘ superfluous ’ R.A.F. silver was to hand , it was re-dedicated as The Danesfield Cup expressly for this annual combat . |
| 56 | ANC president Nelson Mandela indicated for the first time on Dec. 29 that the ANC would consider the possibility of guaranteeing white seats in a future parliament along the lines agreed under the 1979 Lancaster House settlement on Zimbabwean independence [ see pp. 30165-75 ] . |
| 57 | Minister of the Presidency Oscar Santamaría signed for the government , while Shafik Jorge Handal signed for the FMLN . |
| 58 | There 's even a 100MHz dual-processor penned for the second quarter of next year using Cypress ' promised three-layer , 0.5 CMOS technology , touted at up to 320 MIPS , 162 SPECmarks , 142 SPECfp and 77 MFLOPS . |
| 59 | Georgina arranged for the wooden bridge over the lake to be replaced with the stone bridge of classical design , by Wyatt , who also had designed the wings of the Palladian Villa . |
| 60 | Although programs like DO-IT existed for the PC before anything appeared for the Macintosh it and its close cousins cost several thousand pounds . |