Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beatty turned it down as not being a big enough role , and so Polanski went for Robert Redford . |
| 2 | Nineteen Cubans and Spaniards were allowed to disembark , plus three passengers with authentic visas ; the remaining 900 or so Jews waited for news of the negotiations which involved , variously , the Cuban President , his director of immigration , the shipping line , the local relief committee , the ship 's captain and a lawyer flown in from the New York headquarters of the Joint Distribution Committee . |
| 3 | The usual 'flu stiffness and aching in the muscles did n't go away as it should have done , so Father sent for Dr Allott , our family physician , a patient , gentle old man who always arrived in an Essex sedan and — more important to us — always carried a pocketful of toffees to give away to children . |
| 4 | So Malcolm sprang for the script . |
| 5 | Outside this borough , however , only Dedham counted for much . |
| 6 | At eleven o'clock Tony went for a drink , but the bottle was empty . |
| 7 | His dogs looked as if they might be dangerous and so Coetzee reached for a tried and tested method for solving the problem — strychnine . |
| 8 | Hitherto Switzerland accounted for a third of all hazardous waste imported into Britain . |
| 9 | Anyway Kerslake played for Spurs and he played shit . |
| 10 | Normally Rachel slept for a few hours after the feed and Carrie had made sure her husband knew what to do should the baby wake up before she got home . |
| 11 | Usually Peter paid for whatever they did . |
| 12 | In the early days both methods co-existed for some time in Great Britain , but the adherents of each method campaigned against one another here and elsewhere in Europe until towards the close of the nineteenth century , when oralism for the time being triumphed in all European countries . |
| 13 | A week later Maxine arrived for her next consultation . |
| 14 | Whenever Robinson struck for a grip he moved quickly and broke it , never allowing the older man to settle . |
| 15 | Frantically Brown scrabbled for the phone that would connect his with his Special Agent in Kensington . |
| 16 | Moments later Rachel saw for herself that the man 's hands were indeed covered in tiny red blisters . |
| 17 | Stephen and Tony were both in reserved occupations but Joe and Terry were called up into the Irish Guards and sent to Caterham Barracks and a week later Eileen left for the WAAFs . |
| 18 | Now Houghton reached for the first file and took out the piece of card that bore the fingerprints of a possible match . |
| 19 | Periodically Moreau translated for the benefit of his countrymen , who thereupon continued to behave in the manner of stage Frenchmen , with much shrugging and stifled Gallic oaths . |
| 20 | Here Heatley stayed for some months , working with A.J. Moyer , a first-rate investigator of fermentation processes but also an anti-British isolationist , in the development of deep fermentation ( instead of surface culture ) . |
| 21 | Here Dickens stayed for his holiday one year , baulked of being able to rant Fort House as he desired . |
| 22 | He outlined a process of sexual selection whereby males competed for females , who initially remained passive , but eventually exercised power of choice ; vigorous females preferring vigorous males . |
| 23 | Mostly nowadays Hugo took for granted all the assets that talent had brought him . |
| 24 | They came to a simple fence which was crossed by a stile , and here Alina rested for a couple of minutes before going on . |
| 25 | Even Hepworth shifted for a while into distribution after losing a regular order from the US for up to 40 copies of every film he made . |
| 26 | Even O'Connor testified for the defence , claiming that he had no idea who had ordered the attack upon him . |
| 27 | The respect in which the Headmaster of our second school is held again contrasts with the contempt and even hatred felt for the man who headed our first — the man who did n't know their names . |
| 28 | Then Swindon asked for a million pounds , Chelsea offered nothing , and Hoddle was valued at a maximum of 175 thousand pounds . |
| 29 | Gatting , back after serving three years of a five-year ban for his part in the rebel tour of South Africa , has unselfishly not forgotten how Gower fought for him to be his understudy in the sub-continent . |
| 30 | Anyone see how McLaren played for scotland ? |