Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The questionnaire addressed to the Head of Department asked for information under five headings : |
| 2 | THE QUESTION of just who would even want to be a partner with the US was underlined last night as the American Administration headed for default for the first time in its history . |
| 3 | The volume concludes with the first country-house poem published in English , an encomium of the countess 's estate at Cookham , in which the passing of the seasons suggests the ephemerality of patronage relations ; the walks bear ‘ summer Liveries ’ , and the prospect of hills and vales appears to ‘ preferre some strange unlook 'd for sute ’ only as long as their mistress is in residence . |
| 4 | Yesterday Mr Newman 's girlfriend appealed for help in finding the person responsible for what police called the ‘ maniacal ’ killing of Mr Newman . |
| 5 | Coming ate for dinner lair ? |
| 6 | As the Viking Security employee radioed for help , the laughing youths raced away . |
| 7 | Morton was on the point of killing the Dragoon when the soldier begged for quarter , adding that he had been forced into the army and had not wanted to be a soldier . |
| 8 | A BRIGHT new future dawned for car workers at Vauxhall 's Merseyside complex with the opening today of a £190m engine plant . |
| 9 | The building society then brought an action in the High Court for possession and the defendant counterclaimed for rectification of the register , on the ground that the transfer was forged . |
| 10 | She did mind , though , and , as they were met at the emergency entrance with a wheeled stretcher-bed for Faye and a paged message for Tom summoning him to the renal unit to attend urgently to another patient , her concern for Faye 's condition battled for priority in her thoughts with painful images of Marise Wyspianski glowing in the magic aura of Tom 's kiss , and of Tom himself , at the wheel of the Mercedes just moments ago , staring so grimly into the Christmas Eve traffic . |
| 11 | This year , for instance , the council asked for permission to spend £25m on tackling the town 's housing problems but it has been allocated only £3.8m one third of which is earmarked for improvement grants to private homes and the rest to ongoing council schemes . |
| 12 | Some of them took great satisfaction in provocative statements of their position : there is no such thing as law , they said , or law is only the prediction of what the courts will do or only a matter of what the judge ate for breakfast . |
| 13 | At Southampton General Hospital , where 90 out of 360 nurses are off sick , management appealed for volunteer nurses . |
| 14 | driver of vehicle involved in collison with another vehicle exonerated for responsibility for subsequent events which occur because another driver has driven recklessly and which would not have occurred had that driver been driving merely negligently . |
| 15 | Fourteen months later the £5,000 Institute opened for business with , said the D and S Times , ‘ up-to-date furnishings and electrical arrangements , not omitting the penny- in-the-slot telephone ’ . |
| 16 | Although credit law included for example criminal sanctions against dishonest moneylenders , there was no general means of ensuring that such sanctions were imposed when needed . |
| 17 | Can I just put to you there that the pensions regulator may be able to handle aspects like audit reports and established well established documentation and procedures , but are you not really suggesting erm that in the circumstances of Maxwell where the Committee saw for example a transaction that actually had thirty different transactions and therefore unless one looked at the overview of those thirty transactions , one could n't realise that the bank effectively was involved in a fraud . |
| 18 | ( More traditional pedagogy went for appreciation rather than analysis , urging the reader to a direct experience of the poem , perhaps inhaling its beauty like the scent of a flower ; but the underlying process was similar . ) |
| 19 | We sat in the shade of a wall while a boy went for help . |
| 20 | The Rector , the Squire and the schoolmaster were the respected members of the community to whom the village looked for advice and help . |
| 21 | The dumbfounded girl gasped for breath . |
| 22 | THROUGHOUT the mid-1980s a fierce battle raged for control of Daimler-Benz , the luxury-car maker which seemed to epitomise the industrial prowess of a resurgent West Germany . |
| 23 | All the local authorities were being subjected to this dictation from departments in London , and a centralised bureaucracy stood for extravagance . ’ |
| 24 | My heart pounded for love , |
| 25 | This point arose for decision in South Carolina Insurance Co . |
| 26 | Security asked for clip-on ties , which are safer in an attack . |
| 27 | In the latter case voiding can , in principle , occur and this may explain the stress-whitening found for example in high-density polyethylene under high strain . |
| 28 | ‘ Have n't you washed your face yet , Sam ? ’ asked his mother just before Aunty arrived for tea . |
| 29 | If you try to write to a file opened for input you will get a " Write protected " error ( error number 252 ) . |
| 30 | The old team budgeted for government borrowing of £28 billion this financial year and more next year . |