Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] for the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Last week , when drafts of the latest NIH report began to circulate , Dr Baltimore finally asked for the Cell paper to be retracted . |
| 32 | Tess generously tried for the last time to interest Angel in the other dairymaids . |
| 33 | It 's probably that Robert Johnson , who finally headed for the crossroads in 1938 , made more money for Sony/Columbia last year than many of their more super-hyped contemporary acts . |
| 34 | He just came for the money every day . |
| 35 | In sober fact it was not the Saracens who ambushed and humiliated Charlemagne 's army in the mountain pass , but the Basques , who thus confirmed for the chronicler Eginhard their already long-standing reputation for treachery . |
| 36 | One Y6 thought vaguely about inviting Michael Jackson but finally plumped for the local third-division full-back who lived just down the road . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | Their animals , richly caparisoned for the tourists , were munching at green piles of clover and swatting their tails against the early flies . |
| 39 | ‘ Maybe she just panicked for the moment , wanted to get rid of it as soon as possible . ’ |
| 40 | It thus called for the observance of a " day of solidarity with the brotherly Iraqi people " in support of a nationwide general strike on Jan. 28 . |
| 41 | Nigel meanwhile went for the beer . |
| 42 | She gazed at the new arrangement , absent-mindedly reached for the tea Julia had placed near her elbow and drank . |
| 43 | When I finally went for the ( pregnancy ) test , I thought , this is it , this is the point where I go on the Pill . |
| 44 | I just went for the price . |
| 45 | Just before six o'clock they finally left for the West with Rose 's ma 's warnings ringing in their ears . |
| 46 | I did not really know what to expect away from the National Health Service and my mum , and so , armed with a small library of books and the good wishes of a Jamaican midwife at Homerton hospital , I just hoped for the best . |
| 47 | I chose my family , and just waited for the big boys to come up to the Birkdale area . |
| 48 | In opposition , they likewise shifted right ( Britain ) or , if they started nearer the centre ( Germany ) , just waited for the inevitable disillusionment with conservatism to set in . |
| 49 | So I just waited for the contact , and hoped that my voice would sound calm and easy as I told Famlio my lies . |
| 50 | It thus gained for the coal industry what all organizations strive for , namely rational control of the environment through being better able to predict its fluctuations . |
| 51 | There were two more changes before she finally boarded for the last leg . |
| 52 | ‘ I ca n't think how I ever cared for the things . |
| 53 | He would even throw chairs , and when this happened we quickly made for the exit . |
| 54 | ‘ He always changed for the evening meal regardless of whether anyone was coming or not ’ . |
| 55 | AUSTRALIAN entrepreneur Alan Bond yesterday appealed for the support of his shareholders , saying his debt-burdened brewing , property and media group would survive . |
| 56 | The Woolwich building society yesterday appealed for the Government to take ‘ urgent and decisive ’ action to end the housing slump . |
| 57 | POLICE yesterday appealed for the return of potentially lethal antidepressant and tranquillizer tablets which went missing in Darlington town centre in the afternoon . |
| 58 | Specially premiered for the Springbok rugby team , in town this weekend , Parker relives his safe-cracking days , setting of Bank Of England hysteria in Thunderbirds . |
| 59 | Meanwhile the patient , who has not been named , was making a rapid recovery and yesterday walked for the first time since the operation . |
| 60 | THE National Front leader , Mr Jean-Marie Le Pen , yesterday called for the mass expulsion of coloured immigrants as the government announced emergency integration measures . |