Example sentences of "[noun pl] [noun prp] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | After two hours Woolley turned for home . |
| 2 | This intense phase of remarkable activity was a prime reason why Yorkshire won the county championship seven times in the ten summers Verity played for them . |
| 3 | Four times Rab arose for visits to the closet : endured the smell , the cold , the rats , the protest of his tortured anus . |
| 4 | Faced with continuing East German arrivals Kohl calls for immediate negotiations on economic and monetary union [ p. 37259 ] . |
| 5 | Tuesday will be three days Mr sent for you . |
| 6 | ( Many of the pieces Mozart wrote for his wife , including another set of piano and violin sonatas , remained unfinished , and some biographers have interpreted this as a symptom of Mozart 's early disillusionment with his marriage . |
| 7 | HONG KONG — China reacted angrily yesterday to Hong Kong 's decision to move a centrally-located British naval base to an outlying island , a switch apparently designed to undercut any plans China had for a high-profile military presence after 1997 , writes Kevin Hamlin . |
| 8 | ‘ What heat down there , ’ Sabina blew out , as she sat down and stuffed the handful of down she had pulled from the plover into the bag of feathers Nunzia kept for plumping pillows . |
| 9 | Any feelings Hope had for her — and though they had included a certain measure of respect and the possibility of desire , they had not been strong — now alchemised into a quite violent dislike . |
| 10 | Many of us can quote Romans 8:28 : ‘ In all things God works for the good of those who love him , who have been called according to his purpose . ’ |
| 11 | One of the very special things Christine did for her was to write notes to leave for the tradesmen when Miss Miggs was going to be out when they called — like NO MILK TODAY , THANK YOU , or ONE SMALL LOAF , PLEASE . |
| 12 | The initials CTC stand for Cyclists ' Touring Club . |
| 13 | Wigs were out of the question because of the cost , and most of the changes John asked for in the designs were for simplicity in making and comfort in wearing . |
| 14 | The reasons Moore gives for thinking that there can not be organic wholes are not very compelling . |
| 15 | After a few minutes Jack groped for the bedside table . |
| 16 | For example in Les heureux époux and Silène ( book 2 ) , whose airs were lifted from Danchet and Campra 's censored ballet Les amours de Venus ( 1712 ) , the composer routinely set almost all the new recitatives Danchet wrote for them in the mode opposite to that of the air they precede , although there is no affective call for this . |
| 17 | However , one of the main reasons Petrey gives for his admiration of speech act theory is its superiority to cognitive accounts , so it is odd that he never spells out where this superiority lies . |
| 18 | Since we covered as many miles in six months as many Caterham owners do in four years , that 's not an unreasonable failure rate for a car built by amateurs and speaks volumes for the simplicity , strength and quality of the materials Caterham employs for its cars . |
| 19 | It might have been better to handle the sale more discreetly through dealer Angela Nevill , but either way they could never fetch the prices Bond paid for them ’ . |
| 20 | In that year 's elections McCarthy went for Senator Tydings of Maryland , who had pronounced him a fraud , with typical unscrupulousness . |
| 21 | The second of the two classics Minton illustrated for Elek demanded a very different approach . |
| 22 | The mere 19 bars Lully provided for all this would seem to need a lot of stretching , and a good raucous oboe band would certainly come in handy to help fill out the accompaniment to these shenanigans . |
| 23 | As already noted , the dances Fokine staged for the nursemaids , coachmen and others at the Fair were ‘ real dances ’ ( see page 59 ) . |
| 24 | ‘ We believe the Tories know of the plans PDAG had for developing Welsh medium education because they 've spent years trying to avoid financing them . |
| 25 | Many of the herbs Chris uses for treating his fish would be accessible to them in the wild . |
| 26 | Indeed , ask an IBMer what the letters CICS stand for these days and the answer , delivered with hardly a grin will be ‘ Certainly Is Client-Server ’ . |
| 27 | I 'm also annoyed by the timespots Tod allows for each section . |
| 28 | I remembered the van because it was just like the ones Barry bought for the business , except it was red , not white . ’ |
| 29 | An extract from a speech to the Reichstag in April 1939 illustrates well the personalized claims Hitler made for ‘ his ’ great ‘ achievements , and how far these rested on ‘ national ’ rather than specifically Nazi ideals and aspirations . |
| 30 | Even when they were secured , performances at court did not always bring the rewards Leopold hoped for : |