Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This cloak was the principal relic of the west Frankish kings of Neustria , and wherever the Neustrian kings were , it went with them to adorn whatever building became for the time being the royal chapel . |
| 2 | Committee meetings had taken place at fortnightly intervals ever since early in the nineteenth century , but now , in view of the fact that there was a war on , the local government board asked for the meetings to be held monthly , a suggestion that was accepted with alacrity . |
| 3 | Quite what the taxpayer got for the extra money is not readily apparent . |
| 4 | The statutory recognition of auditors ' resignation occurred for the first time in the Companies Act 1976 , prior to which resignation would have constituted a de facto breach of contract . |
| 5 | But when they cast off Penry seemed reassuringly unconcerned , and sang under his breath as the Angharad headed for the turbulent stretch of sea separating Gullholm from the coast . |
| 6 | In fact , such was the sheer awesomeness of Mr Wilson 's fury that , as one person , the whole assembled mass headed for the door at top speed . |
| 7 | Worried managers made the decision after the computer crashed for the second time in 10 days . |
| 8 | And the car — the car headed for the Monument , ’ explained Jack as his mother came slowly over . |
| 9 | Without a moment 's hesitation Stirling 's jeep headed for the runway , the fighting formation behind him . |
| 10 | ‘ Thanks , ’ Oliver called after him as Cobalt headed for the kitchen . |
| 11 | And whats more the club payed for the flags to be fireproofed when they realised what a potential fire hazard they were . |
| 12 | It has never done so — when the Task Force sailed for the Falklands , Britannia was left behind . |
| 13 | The figure budgeted for the whole year had been 40,000 million roubles . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Although programs like DO-IT existed for the PC before anything appeared for the Macintosh it and its close cousins cost several thousand pounds . |
| 17 | The figure leapt for the top of the wall and was almost over when Martin jumped , grabbed its leg and pulled down as hard as he could . |
| 18 | As the search started for the cause of the tragedy , the Prime Minister offered his sympathy to the families but stressed there was no evidence that precautions were ignored . |
| 19 | Much more important was to contemplate how Africanist personae , narrative , and idiom moved and enriched the text in self-conscious ways , to consider what the engagement meant for the work of the writer 's imagination . |
| 20 | The IM reached for the telephone that linked him by direct line to Bacton . |
| 21 | ‘ Nine players in that side appeared for the first team later . |
| 22 | The 6ft 10ins Northampton and England lock spoke for the forwards when he said : ‘ Our backs can run rings round New Zealand . |
| 23 | The sum of£3 8s 6d was raised in this way , and the practice continued for the next eighty years . |
| 24 | On a wild and windy day , with gusts of rain driving into the side of the crematorium , an Anglican priest waited for the next funeral to commence . |
| 25 | Their friendship continued for the next few days . |
| 26 | Their heyday lasted for the first five years of the Eighties , when they scored the incredible total of 20 consecutive Top 20 hits . |
| 27 | After the church ceremony , a horse and carriage waited for the newlyweds and took them to their reception , where an entertainer was waiting in the wings to take the children off the adults ' hands . |
| 28 | John 's lamp light lasted for the first few hours of his entombment and from then on he was in total darkness . |
| 29 | Some of the fans remember it , their memory jogged by the 3p programme which the club reproduced for the last round against Bromsgrove . |
| 30 | Some of the fans remember it , their memory jogged by the 3p programme which the club reproduced for the last round against Bromsgrove . |