Example sentences of "[vb past] [pos pn] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 'd be easier if we met my troops for the first time at the concert , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Only your good news banished my cares for a while . |
| 3 | Produced my proposals for Ministers and under Secys , etc . |
| 4 | Jordi was waiting for me outside after I had a bath and changed my clothes for dinner . |
| 5 | This climate has made me conservative and changed my plans for growing the business . ’ |
| 6 | And then Mr then erm dismissed my concerns for affordable supply in that it had all been said before . |
| 7 | The men strained their ears for continuing sounds of the ghostly train . |
| 8 | Guiding Lights was showing normal navigation lights but the pitch darkness made distance deceptive and the watchers ashore strained their ears for signs of shore contacts . |
| 9 | His team dismissed their opponents for a record low score . |
| 10 | Around half returned almost immediately , while half deferred their studies for a year . |
| 11 | Sir David Attenborough has been visiting a nature reserve to thank industrialists for helping to save a precious piece of the environment.He joined business sponsors who swopped their pinstripes for green wellies for the day . |
| 12 | For example , a white mother with two children in my study described her strategies for budgeting on benefit in great detail , ending her account by noting how these strategies floundered : ‘ Because he spends his money and we could do with it . |
| 13 | About 1,000 BP employees in Glasgow evacuated their offices for two hours yesterday after a pipe in the chilling plant of an air conditioning system broke loose , releasing gas into the building . |
| 14 | In the roaring Twenties , the swinging Sixties and the optimistic Eighties , so the theory goes , women bared their knees for joy . |
| 15 | Things were just a touch grim at the Shakespeare School before it occluded its portals for the vacation . |
| 16 | The morning room was for comings and goings , where odd chairs changed their places for different conveniences , and shoes and boots from the fields were not forbidden . |
| 17 | Doctor Laura Maingay changed her sandals for driving shoes , pulled on a pair of string-backed driving gloves and wound a silk square over springy brindled hair . |
| 18 | Leonora clenched her teeth for an instant as her body yielded to his with a fleeting moment of pain , then she relaxed as they lay still for an instant in the very eye of the storm . |
| 19 | Lionel Elvin , Director of the University of London Institute of Education , had , as a member of the Robbins Committee , framed its recommendations for the teacher training colleges ( as they were called before the committee 's recommendation that they be renamed colleges of education ) to be brought within the universities ' ambit . |
| 20 | About one third of drivers said they used their cars for unnecessary journeys . |
| 21 | Cameron tried to hear his symphony , strained his ears for it . |
| 22 | ‘ So I see , ’ I said nervously , watching as he smacked his lips for fire to stream from his mouth , the top of his head to fly upwards on a jet of steam or his eyes to turn into Catherine wheels . |
| 23 | He described his proposals for the coming year as neutral because he did not want to hamper recovery . |
| 24 | The MacMahon Act only reinforced his reasons for doing so . |
| 25 | As he bent his knees for a closer look , a single spot of blood from his cut hand fell on to a wing ; shocking crimson on the pale surface , spreading into a crude blotch . |
| 26 | He sucked his teeth for a minute . |
| 27 | The little man sucked his teeth for a moment . |
| 28 | He played in 20 Test matches and his post-war service to Yorkshire included three years as Club president , a position he vacated sadly when he found his calls for moderation went unheeded at the height of the Boycott controversy . |
| 29 | Springsteen finished the mince and inspected his whiskers for any he 'd missed . |
| 30 | I had visions of having to pay vast amounts as ‘ punishment ’ , but in the end they just re-scheduled our flights for one whole day later . |