Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb past] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Brown observes : ‘ 'What does he do ? ’ remains the most illuminating question to ask about someone met for the first time . ’ |
| 2 | She did have a job with the BBC and someone cared for the child in the day . |
| 3 | But nobody cared for the stones he told And he sat all alone of a night Until one day a traveller came in from the cold A sorry and miserable sight . |
| 4 | At first she 'd given no thought to missing for a month , putting it down to the trauma of losing Pa , but by the time nothing showed for the third month running there could be no doubt that the worst had happened . |
| 5 | The shivering group was quickly fuelled by big bowls of soup and glasses of wine and then , very suddenly , the sun beamed through and the cloud disappeared — everyone scampered for the lifts and we had the most wonderful afternoon imaginable . |
| 6 | He had no sense of give and take ; no idea of the concessions one made for the sake of social comfort . |
| 7 | She told representatives the new inflation figure was the one used for the pension increase next April . |
| 8 | The last is the same as the one used for the popular Jazz series , which accounts for the familiar fit and feel . |
| 9 | A judge decided that the poster advertising the film was much too close to the one used for the original Cleopatra . |
| 10 | The tented village was far larger than the one assembled for The Open at Troon and stretched over some 10 acres on the site . |
| 11 | He 'll be ridiculed , he 'll be mocked , he 'll be scourged , you know something reserved for the people who were really being taught a lesson . |
| 12 | This limitation in time is most clearly seen in the case of a life estate , whether it be an estate held for the life of the tenant , or what is called an estate pur autre vie , one held for the life or lives of some other person or persons . |
| 13 | There 's nothing like a long Technical Run to dissipate any euphoria attached to a theatrical production , and that was the effect of the one held for The Hooded Owl on the evening of Sunday , 26th October , 1980 . |
| 14 | It is extraordinary that the Minister should take it into his head that he knows better than people in the museums world , and impose upon them a period that nobody asked for — indeed , everybody asked for the opposite . |
| 15 | The Austrian Empire , the Russian Empire , the French Republic , ‘ poor little Belgium ’ , everybody fought for the privilege of committing social and collective suicide on a spectacular scale , and for no particular reason . |
| 16 | Yes it only took four or five minutes until you were told the occupants were secure but then it er everybody waited for the C I D to arrive . |
| 17 | Everyone relaxed for the two-hour journey . |
| 18 | Everyone ran for the door to see what had happened . |
| 19 | There was only the scratching of pens and the rustle of paper as everyone waited for the reply . |
| 20 | As is usual with this event , everyone waited for the last competitors to finished , even though some took well over two hours . |
| 21 | Although programs like DO-IT existed for the PC before anything appeared for the Macintosh it and its close cousins cost several thousand pounds . |