Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they 're all the same so that if you are er with which is the medical side and an opportunity arose for some other reason for you to transfer to another group we have n't got to retrain you . |
| 2 | Another correspondent asked for cheap tracts which she could distribute to the poor as the middle class were already knowledgeable . |
| 3 | THE girl allegedly abandoned by Senator Edward Kennedy in the Chappaquiddick car tragedy lived for two hours afterwards , it is claimed . |
| 4 | The son of a drunken soldier lived for six years with his grandmother in one room . |
| 5 | He looked at the stiff unbending features of the recruiter for a moment : the dark hollows around his eyes and his dry , parchment-like skin betrayed a long addiction to opium , and Duclos guessed that hid irritability stemmed for this . |
| 6 | An instance of the kind of fluidity I have in mind occurred for one boy who was in role as a ‘ robot controller ’ . |
| 7 | The modern legal aid scheme , which provides financial assistance ( subject to eligibility ) in connection with proceedings in most of our civil courts , has come a long way since 1495 when statute provided for poor people , at the discretion of the Lord Chancellor , to sue without payment to the Crown , and to have lawyers assigned to them without fee . |
| 8 | On Dec. 26 the US administration renewed for six months the economic sanctions against Libya which had been imposed in January 1986 . |
| 9 | This is that area of physical life which is associated with sickness and health ; an area wherein the interplay between the subconscious healing operations of the bodily functions , on the one hand , and the power of the human mind or will to help those functions on the other , would offer immense possibilities for medical practice if the practitioner knew for sure that in the mind of the patient there was the certain knowledge that successful self-help generated from faith in a fully believed-in ‘ god ’ could be achieved . |
| 10 | This selection of winning tools includes a 20in Short cut saw for each runner up . |
| 11 | The club went for another batsman instead , and that 's why I was intent on resigning . |
| 12 | A riot reigned for two and a half hours after the last game ended . |
| 13 | The 23-year-old batted for 196 minutes , hitting 15 fours and a straight six off Graeme Hick . |
| 14 | A long search ensued for similar formulae in terms of radicals ( that is , formulae involving unc and the coefficients of the given equation ) for the roots of equations of higher degree , but none appeared until the 16th Century when a formula for the cubic was found by the Italian Niccolo Fontana ( more commonly known as Tartaglia , " the stammerer " , because of a speech impediment brought about by injury in childhood ) . |
| 15 | While the Bakufu administration had for several decades been subject to criticisms from within its own ranks , a more serious threat to its supremacy emerged from within domains traditionally hostile to it . |
| 16 | Debate as to the relative merits of foot and horse continued for many centuries , and still exists in an attenuated form in the modern technological army . |
| 17 | The pantomime continued for three months . |
| 18 | The experiment lasted for 21 days . |
| 19 | ‘ We went to Netherhampton for a year ’ , he wrote : ‘ the experiment lasted for seven and here we are still at Netherhampton after a quarter of a century . ’ |
| 20 | Fighting continued for three weeks ; British casualties numbered 1000 , the Indonesians lost many more and the city became a desert . |
| 21 | These interviews were tape-recorded and usually lasted for eight or nine hours ( although one mammoth sitting lasted for twelve ) . |
| 22 | As it happened , though the tension continued for some time after the building of the Berlin Wall in August to stop the flight of East Germans to the West , the two sides had to settle for a stalemate . |
| 23 | The enemy stood for different things and must be defeated . |
| 24 | One frequently-cited piece of evidence is that of desperately low yields for cereal crops ( even as low as one measure reaped for one measure sown — compare modern farmers ' ratios of up to 18:1 ) suggested by a fragment of an inventory of the royal estate of Annappes during Charlemagne 's reign . |
| 25 | More than a century ago J. S. Mill argued for universal education on moral grounds , holding that it would manifestly increase the general balance of pleasure over pain , happiness over unhappiness . |
| 26 | The radical error arose for two reasons . |
| 27 | Commitment to a performance target is not assured because a boss asked for that commitment . |
| 28 | But they were hot on the trail of a loathsome whine as the party in another mess pined for better days . |
| 29 | Not surprisingly gentlemen with poor prospects at home clamoured for Indian appointments , and a large proportion of the successful applicants were in fact Scots . |
| 30 | Manjrekar , who in the first Test struggled for 36 minutes for a duck , batted nine minutes short of five hours before India , 31 ahead on first innings , declared at 312–8 . |