Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked at his master rather anxiously as he spoke , and Cornelius Fennell , catching that warning eye , perversely asked for another piece . |
| 2 | If I analyse the bosses I 've worked for , the ones who irritated me the most were the ones who were indecisive and who constantly asked for more information just to delay making a decision . |
| 3 | But we only went for half a day at that period and then for a month or so then the troops went away again , we got back into our own school . |
| 4 | After a spell in private practice , Vial was made equerry to Louis XVI and chef de manège of the Lyons riding academy , a post he apparently held for some years , but could not retain . |
| 5 | He just asked for more erm , one thing that is disturbing , what he does very causally mention is what is going on all the time |
| 6 | And the overall groupings which we finally evolved for this book in terms of life focus also turn out to be remarkably close to the clusters of life styles picked out in an earlier American study taking just this perspective , Robert Williams and Claudine Wirths 's Lives through the Years . |
| 7 | But after two weeks of going back and fro to the barn they finally decided for some unknown reason that they had had enough . |
| 8 | The second reason is that the ending of the war , like the starting of it , will require the intermediation of the UN ; and the Europeans , who progressively voted for all the Security Council resolutions which opened the door to war , will naturally seek another series of resolutions to close it again . |
| 9 | Polytechnic directors yesterday called for more government funding . |
| 10 | As she spoke , joy brightened her face , and the love she still felt for this man was alive in her every word . |
| 11 | The high temperatures of 10 mill K and more lasted for many milliseconds , and implied that there was a high degree of plasma stability , and large reduction of the unaccountable loss of energy and plasma across the magnetic field found in early experiments on Zeta pinches and on stellarators in the US ( though indeed some unaccountable loss still exists ) . |
| 12 | Schiller none the less continued his research and provoked controversy by his estimate that , by the mid-1950s , though space heating sales had fallen to only a fifth of domestic sales , they still accounted for some three-fifths of the peak : significantly more than the BEA had ever publicly admitted . |
| 13 | Every night that Madame stepped up onto the stage in her dress , Boy would be watching her ; he always stayed for that . |
| 14 | She also asked for those who were unable to attend the AGM to be thanked for the lovely watch presented to her at the end of her term as Chairman . |
| 15 | If memory serves me right , I was promoted to Div 45 paddling in an Augsburg 72 , a high volume boat which I also used for many white water trips . |
| 16 | It 's a great guitar , which I also used for most of the rhythm parts , but then the Les Pauls just took over ! ’ |
| 17 | She touched the flowers , looking at them with the steady , close , and intent gaze that Annie Laval also reserved for such an occasion . |
| 18 | The revival by the Party of an old Mao maxim , ‘ Seeking from facts ’ , also allowed for more flexibility in the political sphere and rejection of political dogma . |
| 19 | Dr Almahawi also worked for some months at the Unsworth group practice in Westhoughton , near Bolton , Greater Manchester and as a locum at a local hospital , before his death in May 1992 . |
| 20 | He also worked for several years with the Lutheran World Federation . |
| 21 | Dr Almahawi also worked for several months at the Unsworth group practice in Westhoughton , near Bolton , Greater Manchester , and as a locum at a local hospital , before his death in May , 1992 . |
| 22 | He also called for those hit hardest by VAT rises to be compensated , urged that the wealthy be called on to pay more and warned Chancellor Norman Lamont against aiming at a general tax level of 20p , saying it was ‘ not manageable ’ . |
| 23 | He also called for those hit hardest by VAT rises to be compensated , urged the wealthy be called on to pay more and warned Chancellor Norman Lamont against aiming at a general tax level of 20p , saying it was ‘ not manageable ’ . |
| 24 | Next in was Ocean Quest on 11 December , with a time of 16 days , 10 hr , 9 min and 22 sec , but they also motored for many hours . |
| 25 | Like Julian , who tells us that she wrestled for years with the problem of sin , Luther and St Teresa both struggled for some twenty years with a paralysing sense of their own sinfulness . |
| 26 | The Hospital Anxiety and Depression scores also fell for all but one woman . |
| 27 | The English Free Church Year Book of 1911 probably spoke for many communions when it said ‘ the truth is — and we must face its startling reality — the educated middle class , especially the young people , are losing touch altogether with the House of God ’ . |
| 28 | The explanation which Hall later gave for this was that although the War Department competition was dead , he was seeking official approval for the principle that , for all important government buildings in London , ‘ a competition , limited or otherwise , should take place , instead of the work being committed , as a matter of course to an officer of the establishment ’ . |
| 29 | There was also a healthy increase in margins at Bunzl 's biggest business — distributing disposable paper and plastic products — aided by its departure from paper trading , which also accounted for much of last year 's drop in sales . |
| 30 | They both accounted for this outcome in terms of the rigidity of the block contracts they had been recommended to make by the regional health authority . |