Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [vb past] for " in BNC.

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1 The cubes can be added to soups and sauces or thawed for use in puddings and cakes .
2 The high street stores , and even the designers , are finding there is great value in maintaining , shapes , colours and styles that worked for them in previous seasons .
3 Professor Everitt has written that innkeepers were among the most mobile elements in the community , but that only a minority established dynasties that lasted for three or four generations .
4 Rudakov knew the pitfalls , knew of the knives that waited for him .
5 Cheery posters hung on the wall , and there were a lot of tables shaped like children 's bricks that did for stools or in-trays , made of clear Perspex and spotted with dabs of red and blue paint .
6 Immediately it sprouted numerous legs and scrabbled for a purchase .
7 On 11 July Cross had taken a sample of his own tapwater into the local North Cornwall District Council offices and asked for it to be analysed , but the Council refused .
8 Peristaltic or simultaneous oesophageal contractions occurred in clusters of four or more repetitive waves and lasted for several minutes .
9 He just shut his eyes and hoped for the best .
10 He opened his eyes and searched for a break in the streaming fog .
11 He shaded his eyes and blinked for a few seconds until he had adjusted to the change .
12 He closed his eyes and waited for the pupils to widen .
13 Yanto closed his eyes and waited for the inevitable .
14 Again Hassan closed his eyes and waited for a second .
15 Fabia stirred , awakened in her hotel bedroom that Monday and , as memory awakened with her , she abruptly closed her lovely green eyes and wished for a moment that she were back in England .
16 Miss Stoner put her hand over her eyes and cried for a minute .
17 She closed her eyes and concentrated for a second , shaking the blues from her thoughts .
18 When he drew he put aside all other considerations and reached for the truth .
19 In Peking he contacted missionaries and asked for baptism .
20 Iris picked up her pyjamas and headed for the bathroom .
21 Shiona gathered up her pyjamas and headed for the bathroom , her mind retracing the events of the night .
22 They spouted the need for hard line , no compromise , battle tactics and urged for the medium of roack/pop music to be used for propaganda purposes .
23 You cos you know Bonnie yeah , sh she erm got offered a er job in Glitters in Camden yeah it 's a shop in Camden , and sh she told Honey and Dan about it yeah and the next thing she knows yeah like the next day , she 's talking to Dan and Honey and Honey comes out and says oh I went down to Glitters and asked for a job right said right to Honey 's face I mean Bonnie 's face .
24 Schneider draped a sheet about his shoulders and reached for a pair of scissors .
25 Mainly , of course , he bought books and arranged for others to be copied , but whenever any of the magnates fell foul of him , he would confiscate his library .
26 As she dropped to the ground in a crouch , preparing to make another attempt at the obstacle , Frankie turned on his heels and raced for the house .
27 My hands left the gun hanging in mid-air above my knees and went for the catapult , which as always was hanging on my belt , the arm-rest stuck down between that and my cords .
28 ( Do you know , I was in the council chamber with Thomas Cromwell when , years later , the northern rebels sent their demands and asked for his removal .
29 Then quietly I walked down the steps and felt for a seat on one of the wooden forms ; after being hissed at by several people I found one empty , next to an old woman .
30 Meanwhile , Noah Claypole , amazed by all that he had heard , crept up the steps and ran for Fagin 's house as fast as his legs could carry him .
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