Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | High Anglican architects such as William Butterfield ( 1814–1900 ) and George Edmund Street ( 1824–81 ) took up these ideas and produced a series of parish schools which combine simple planning and construction with details they had developed for church architecture . |
| 32 | This theory came close to some of the central ideas which Marx had developed for capitalism . |
| 33 | Women 's receipt of unemployment benefit automatically meant they had registered for work . |
| 34 | I half slept , then woke as we sped by the rest house where we had stopped for juice on that first visit to Al Ain . |
| 35 | Some papers later reported that he had stopped for tea at the Ritz but this unlikely frivolity was angrily and officially denied . |
| 36 | There was some feeling that Beijing had been left behind while the rest of the country had marched for democracy . |
| 37 | When it was born rationing was a part of everyday life and people queued quietly for health care just as in the war they had queued for food . |
| 38 | In the 1670s and 1680s commercial interests in London had pressed for war on the grounds that French expansionism , if left unchecked , would jeopardise England 's trading interests . |
| 39 | They became the guardians of the land , the scourge of any who tried to harm it , and every new generation issued out of Merkadale to take the place of those who had fallen for Minginish . |
| 40 | In Miller , in 1954 , the wife had petitioned for divorce , after which her husband attacked and raped her , causing her actual bodily harm . |
| 41 | A. T. With the strike having taken place , everyone was jockeying , everyone that had sat for Sergeant and passed their exams , the only way they could see to get promotion was to report another man . |
| 42 | The CEGB had looked for support in this area from the National Radiological Protection Board , the government funded organization responsible for providing advice on radiation hazards . |
| 43 | Share prices rose again in mid-January after it was announced that John Kerridge , chairman of Fisons , had resigned for health reasons . |
| 44 | Ernesto Leal was promoted to Foreign Minister , replacing Enrique Dreyfus Morales who had resigned for health reasons . |
| 45 | I was very proud of the reputation I had earned for exactness on timing . |
| 46 | For Wilson , Sting 's success , and the prodigious royalties it had earned for Virgin , was merely one feather in an increasingly crowded cap . |
| 47 | Then , just over two years later , John announced at the AGM ( which we use as an opportunity to set spiritual and practical goals for the year to come ) that he felt the time had come for church number three . |
| 48 | The time had come for Space Man Scott to go to the moon ! |
| 49 | On an upright chair sat a young man — shaven-headed and bovver- booted — who had come for treatment for ‘ a most embarrassing men 's illness ’ ( he would not elaborate ) which had not improved with orthodox therapy . |
| 50 | He pleaded that the time had come for government bona fides to be accepted at face value and reiterated , emphatically , that the fact that all South Africans should have the vote was no longer a point that required further discussion . |
| 51 | Not satisfied , the Admiralty pressed the issue to the Cabinet and Wilson and Tupper were summoned to appear before a committee of Coalition Ministers , with Balfour in the chair , supported by Sir Edward Carson , Dr Macnamara and Arthur Henderson and faced by the proposal that the time had come for merchant seamen to be conscripted for national service . |
| 52 | When Peter and Anna had come for interview , Anna had looked at the hills with hunger , and not at the cramped kitchen or the meanly proportioned sitting-room , and had urged Peter to accept . |
| 53 | Abul Ismail , who had come for news , retired to a cushion and sat , his hands on his lap . |
| 54 | When he had departed for Benghazi he had left Lord Jellicoe in charge at Kabrit , and on 20 May Jellicoe wrote to MEHQ asking for an order to be issued to the Commando to release the men . |
| 55 | If we go back to the education example , and suppose that the first vote is between L and M , then if the rich vote sincerely L wins , and in the second round H defeats L. On the other hand , if the rich had voted for M in the first round , then M would have gone on to win in the second round . |
| 56 | In Slovenia , which had voted for independence in a referendum in December 1990 [ see p. 37924 ] and which |
| 57 | Slovenians had voted for independence in a referendum in December 1990 [ see p. 37924 ] and the government had announced on May 8 that it would secede by June 26 . |
| 58 | In addition candidates belonging to the Estonian Communist Party , which had voted for independence from the Soviet CP in March 1990 [ see p. 37323 ] and were represented in all these groups , won 55 seats . |
| 59 | Igor Smirnov had been elected " president " , and 98 per cent of the 78 per cent turnout reportedly had voted for independence . |
| 60 | Symbolic , perhaps , of a ‘ gentler age ’ was the presence of the Archbishop of Canterbury and eleven Bishops in the Division lobbies , all of them supporting the Bill , in contrast with the solitary Bishop ( Chichester ) who had voted for abolition in 1948 . |