Example sentences of "[vb past] for by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After nearly perishing on the moors , she is taken in and cared for by the Reverend St John Rivers and his sisters Mary and Diana . |
| 2 | I hope that the Minister gives the assurances about timing asked for by the hon. Member for Chislehurst . |
| 3 | However that may be , we are satisfied that the plain natural meaning of section 1(1) was that contended for by the Attorney-General . |
| 4 | Little wonder it is acclaimed in song and story and longed for by the expatriate Scot ! |
| 5 | As a concise and precise international language like that longed for by the natural philosophers of the seventeenth century , where symbols would stand for things and not words , engineering drawing was valuable in opening machinery to scientific study . |