Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the only thing to do is to make her dance as Elizabeth von Rosen so memorably did for the Royal Danish Ballet decades ago . |
| 2 | That uses a theme which Bizet much later cribbed for his L'Arlesienne music . |
| 3 | So I put it to him , ‘ Being famous does n't necessarily endow a guitarist with insight into the design and workings of the guitar , so why are artists so often asked for their input and reviewers almost never , when our job is to understand , examine and pass judgement on guitars on a daily basis ? ’ |
| 4 | He so often searched for the positive , supporting and standing up for CUM and Bermondsey . |
| 5 | Controversy aside , the fact that Dykstra was called upon so often vouched for Rangers ' ascendancy but the Hateley/McCoist goal machine seemed to have developed a mechanical fault . |
| 6 | What was long ago fished for from Saint-Jean , as from Biarritz , was whales , from as early as the eleventh century and as far away as Newfoundland . |
| 7 | From Winnipeg — where he had to work a bootlegging ruse to get a drink — he hitched to New York to stay with some friends of Philip : they were in Vermont and so he busked a few days in Manhattan , perhaps even sang for his supper in Greenwich Village . |
| 8 | ‘ It just did n't happen for us as it so ecstatically happened for you ! ’ |
| 9 | The BEA thus increasingly looked for sites more distant from the load centres , locating them instead on the coast ( where cooling water supplies were cheap and plentiful ) or on the coalfields ( where coal would be the cheapest ) . |
| 10 | The Beretta 92 had always been Sabrina 's favourite handgun but Graham still secretly hankered for the Colt .45 he had first started to use in Vietnam . |
| 11 | I once specially asked for him to be there and then demanded to know at the rehearsal who was this man sitting with the flutes . |
| 12 | St Jude 's Square lay before her , level and familiar , flanked by its old taverns and the graceful iron railings of St Jude 's churchyard where Luke still often waited for her ; the square crowded and ebullient today with the stalls for the Friday market , with traders and dealers and pedlars of fancy braids and buttons , fans , feathers , bright little birds in cages , beads , sequins , second-hand dresses that could be unpicked and made over , second-hand bonnets that could be remodelled , old belts that sometimes had decent buckles , sugar sticks the colour of rubies and emeralds that would be a treat for Liam . |
| 13 | The English philosopher G. E. Moore returned to the problem in a famous paper , A Defence of Common Sense which , in its turn , forms a background for Wittgenstein 's effort to demystify the issue in Über Gewissheit which , along with the Philosophical Investigations and , of course , the Tractatus , are the only texts he ever actually prepared for publication . |
| 14 | He straight away plumped for Troon 1962 . |
| 15 | In the mid-1980s the Daily Telegraph probably still spoke for the great bulk of Middle England , when , after Britain had yet again resisted international calls to reduce pollution , it announced : |
| 16 | Sympathetic to Germany , hostile to the entente with France , and unmoved by Belgium 's plight , he campaigned for neutrality in 1914 , and , as soon as this effort failed , launched the Union of Democratic Control , which opposed annexationist war aims and later also called for a negotiated peace . |
| 17 | He also reportedly called for the UN and the Commonwealth to send teams to observe the election process . |
| 18 | He also publicly acknowledged for the first time that he was a recovering " drug addict " who had behaved in a " degrading and outrageous " way . |
| 19 | By mid-March he was far behind with the reviewing on which he now chiefly depended for a living , Cottle was becoming ‘ clamorous ’ about preparations for the new edition of poems , and Osorio was a commitment which seemed likely to reach for months into the future . |
| 20 | Work references from a licensed dealer are of dubious value , and rarely even asked for . |
| 21 | She rarely even stopped for tea . |
| 22 | The act of conception , staring at a typewriter for much of 1985 in a flat in Notting Hill Gate so depressed me that I immediately thereafter applied for a job as doctor for Amoco , who were then exploring for oil near Morondava . |
| 23 | But I know that , last night , he damn well nearly did for me ! ’ |
| 24 | Ken erm y you 've asked some questions , I 've actually seen the I M R O letter and can I say that there are two questions in the I M R O letter to Mr Maxwell and Bishopsgate , which quite categorically asked for accounts and also details of the ownership structure coming out of Liechtenstein . |
| 25 | I then subsequently asked for an iris to be put into the Dalek so that we could do a close up of the eye irising in and out to get the effect of its eye focussing on you . |
| 26 | In this he almost certainly spoke for the majority of Lewis 's pupils . |
| 27 | His hair was thick and warm , and her fingers revelled in the feel of it , creeping around the back of his skull where she half-heartedly tugged to bring his head back so that she no longer ached for his kisses to continue . |
| 28 | In the Spring of 1966 , six of the Commissioners , led by Radzinowicz and Wootton resigned , having become persuaded that , with substantial legislation pending , and in the absence of conclusive research to support recommendations likely to last for a lengthy period , the opportunity no longer existed for the Commission to make a comprehensive report capable of setting the direction for a generation . |
| 29 | He had already blown out in the first two matches yet still went for a practice to give me information on a different stretch for which I was grateful . |
| 30 | Yet still gaped for , dry of lip . |