Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Collection " covers " a collection got together for a temporary purpose " , but not one " made or exhibited for the purpose of effecting sales or other commercial dealings " . |
| 2 | Neither of them moved or spoke for several minutes . |
| 3 | He designed that look for Susan Foreman , and indeed arranged to open his shop specially for me one evening so I could be ready for the production day next morning . |
| 4 | They found that allowing for the tax timing option ( as well as stochastic interest rates and different income and capital gains tax rates ) in the no-arbitrage condition resulted in the no-arbitrage prices of the S&P500 moving much closer to the actual prices for the period June 1982 to September 1982 than if no such adjustments were made to the no-arbitrage condition . |
| 5 | We found that adjusting for maternal smoking in pregnancy did not change the strength of the association between birth weight and lung function so that the effect of environment in utero on birth weight and subsequently on lung function may be independent of smoking in pregnancy . |
| 6 | The city at night intimidated me : the piss-heads , bums , derelicts and dealers shouted and looked for fights . |
| 7 | His canonry was not of Oxford but of Kobe , of the Anglican Church in Japan , but it was the Oxford Diocesan Clergy Cricket side which he captained and ran for 25 years . |
| 8 | They entered and asked for a room for the night and a meal of cold meat and beer , which they ate in the bar . |
| 9 | Ignatious Bonomi and David Roberts designed and built for John Marshall a mill for the preparation and spinning of flax . |
| 10 | Fairview New Homes has a number of sites in North East London designed and priced for first-time buyers . |
| 11 | BELOW : Guard , , society membership secretary is pictured with the carriages he designed and built for the railway . |
| 12 | In the previous section we described and accounted for the unequal distribution of wealth in Great Britain in terms of the ownership and control of forms of private productive property . |
| 13 | She rose and stooped for the shell . |
| 14 | Without a word , Roberts rose and headed for the service hatch . |
| 15 | They were equally trusting in sending country customers goods ‘ on approval ’ , selected from catalogues received in the mail which they retained and paid for by cheque , or returned . |
| 16 | He stopped and thought for a moment . |
| 17 | When he realized that Adam was not one of his colleagues , he stopped and reached for the revolver in his belted holster . |
| 18 | He hummed and hawed for quite a while about it , but in the end I asked him if you were getting any visitors , and if not , I said , must n't you be feeling pretty lonely , and that did it . |
| 19 | After taking the final Examination the following year he trained and worked for six months as an Assistant Solicitor with a general practice in Hull . |
| 20 | In general , we think of the criminal law as the means by which individuals are prosecuted , tried and punished for the offences ( e.g. theft , assault , etc. ) which they have committed . |
| 21 | Yet I tried and tried for over a week thinking I ought to for his sake . |
| 22 | If an exposure does occur , a blood sample should be obtained from the individual from whom exposure occurred and tested for hepatitis B surface antigen ( HBsAg ) and HIV antibody . |
| 23 | He never moved but waited for her to come to him , and when she did his arm came around her with a swift , protective action that was not lost at all on Maggie . |
| 24 | He presided over far-reaching changes , including the abolition of censorship , in a programme which he described as aiming for " socialism with a human face " and which came to be known as the " Prague Spring " . |
| 25 | Apricot really stole a march on the competition last September with a couple of new PCs it described as optimized for workgroup operation . |
| 26 | VZV 140k DNA binding domain deletion polypeptides were expressed to high levels in E.coli and partially purified as described for the VT2 polypeptide . |
| 27 | Now I do n't think many people realized that asking for the maintenance of standards , rather than perhaps the changing of standards , was asking for something that was almost diametrically opposed to asking for an educational system that was more geared towards preparing children for adult life and productive work . |
| 28 | All practices agreed that preparing for and implementing fundholding was an enormous administrative task . |
| 29 | They recommended that grants for land improvement and drainage should be withdrawn from Section 43 areas and that all capital grant schemes in the LFA should be modified to encourage a wide range of conservation measures . |
| 30 | The following month , however , the President announced that plans for a multiparty system were to be implemented and that elections would be held in February 1991 . |