Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] for the " in BNC.
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| 31 | When ‘ Dick ’ met Wayne for the first time , Widmark said to the Duke , ‘ Tell your press agent that the name is Richard . ’ |
| 32 | Erm , I met Mr for the first time in the airport lounge at , erm er , er , Kennedy Airport erm , we discussed at great length and had a very interesting discussion erm , er , Pearsons erm , he accepted er , the job and h I , he has no obligation to me whatsoever and he is one of the er , members of the er , remuneration committee , and I actually take offence at what you 're saying . |
| 33 | That struggle shaped Germany for the subsequent two centuries and it also determined much of the shape of Europe prior to the First World War . |
| 34 | The NYPL paid LACMA for the right to make use of the earlier show 's research , documentary photographs , videos , films , and other materials . |
| 35 | If Canada joined Britain for the war , as she most certainly would , which unit of the service would I be joining ? |
| 36 | I admired George for the care and attention he gave to Lennie . |
| 37 | Berry dismisses criticism of climbs of this kind , made recently by Reinhiold Messner among others : ‘ It 's all very well for him to say this kind of thing , but when he climbed Everest for the first time without oxygen and on other occasions , he was quite happy to make use of heavyweight-style expeditions . |
| 38 | FRANCE FRANCE abolished PR for the legislature in 1986 after Jean-Marie Le Pen 's National Front stunned the nation by winning 33 seats in the previous election . |
| 39 | She hated Nora for the double betrayal and swore that she would never forgive her . |
| 40 | Goal machine Martin McGaughey , even deadlier than Cowan at his Linfield peak , had a chance to decide for himself when he faced Smith for the first time last week . |
| 41 | Luton are likely to insist on recouping the £135,000 they paid Leeds for the veteran midfielder , even though Kamara turned 35 on Christmas Day . |
| 42 | At the time when Jesus was born , Herod the Great was the ‘ puppet king ’ who ruled Palestine for the Romans . |
| 43 | Commenting on its figures ( see page five ) , Eschborn , Germany-based Linotype AG says its 1992 domestic orders fell by 6% but the company enjoyed solid gains in key foreign markets , with the US up 18% , Japan up 24% and the Middle and Far East showing gains of between 15% and 49% ; the US market surpassed Germany for the first time , and exports at the computerised printing systems and equipment company accounted for 72.1% of overall business in 1992 after 69.1% a year earlier . |
| 44 | Dunphy blamed Taylor for the failings of the English national side . |
| 45 | In early June Keating unsuccessfully challenged Hawke for the ALP leadership , in a move which most commentators agreed left Hawke politically damaged . |
| 46 | I tipped Arsenal for the championship at the start of the season and that 's the measure of respect I have for them because they are so resolute . |
| 47 | The ball was released as per Law 18 , Horan collected and fed Campo for the try . |
| 48 | Chairman David Nairn thanked Grant for the open manner with which he had answered these questions and brought the first day 's business proceedings to and end . |
| 49 | On the morrow of Marshal Ogarkov 's removal as Chief of the General Staff , Western press comment included speculation that his policy stance had come to obstruct the reassessment of arms control and East-West policy sought by the leadership ; according to one respected newspaper , senior Western military attachés in Moscow were tipped by Soviet army officers that the Kremlin blamed Ogarkov for the disasters of the SS-20 deployment and the shooting down of the Korean airliner off Sakhalin Island . |
| 50 | He thanked God for the sun , already surprisingly warm on their backs . |
| 51 | When parliament heard the news of Crécy the commons ‘ thanked God for the great victory He had given their king and they said that all their money had been well spent ’ . |
| 52 | For once Stephen and Christina thanked God for the inefficient island infrastructure . |
| 53 | I thanked God for the small wrist compass that I wore as a matter of habit whenever I set out in a boat . |
| 54 | Many , therefore , blamed Callaghan for the explosion in union wage claims that followed in the early seventies . |
| 55 | He blamed France for the delay , which he said was caused by Paris 's continuing insistence that Strasbourg should be confirmed as the permanent site of the EC Parliament 's plenary sessions . |
| 56 | The latest move comes a day after Ke Zaishuo , the senior Peking representative to the Joint Liaison Group — the Anglo-Chinese body overseeing Hong Kong 's return to mainland sovereignty in 1997 — blamed Britain for the crisis of confidence in the territory after the Chinese army assault on Tiananmen Square . |
| 57 | Yesterday , the Soviet Union blamed Britain for the cancellation of a visit by a human rights delegation , saying British officials insisted on sending Mr Michael Bourdeaux of Keston College — someone they knew would not be given a Soviet visa . |
| 58 | At the end of Shakespeare 's creation , Antony admits to thinking of Brutus as very noble , and that he was the only person who genuinely killed Caesar for the good of Rome . |
| 59 | Now he is saying that he killed Caesar for his greater love of Rome than for Caesar ie he killed Caesar for the ‘ general good ’ . |
| 60 | Brutus had said that he killed Caesar for the general good but Antony is now saying that he did n't know why they killed him , otherwise he saying that it was n't for the general good . |