Example sentences of "[vb past] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Stan called me and we met for a chat at his home . |
| 2 | Twenty-seven veterans of the summer campaign to Argentina ( minus centre Christian Coeurville who is involved in exams ) , along with the ‘ tired trio ’ — Sella , Mesnel and LaFond — and the ‘ banned trio ’ of Gimbert , Benazzi and Roumat , and Sebastian Conchy ( the Begles and French students flanker ) met for a squad session in Leon in South West France . |
| 3 | NINE former staff at the old Williams & Glyn 's Bradford Branch were soon talking about ‘ the good old days ’ when they met for a reunion in one of the city 's wine bars . |
| 4 | With an interpreter we met for a drink and he told me that because his home was in East Germany he had been forbidden to travel abroad until quite recently when he became an old-age Pensioner ; this voyage was his first taste of freedom . |
| 5 | We met for a drink . |
| 6 | In the first week of January 1979 , President Giscard d'Estaing expounded his view when he met for a summit conference with Jimmy Carter , Hemut Schmidt , the West German chancellor , and James Callaghan , the British prime minister , on the French West Indian island of Guadeloupe . |
| 7 | Soon after his call , they met for a meal at Shoney 's Big Boy restaurant where Franks/Schafer introduced him to Burchette , who was then working from home as a one-man security service , and to Jack Terrell , a former operative of Oliver North 's in Central America . |
| 8 | Two years ago the 41year-old received a similar amount when his former teams of Liverpool and Arsenal met for a testimonial match . |
| 9 | I made no comment on this at the time ( though privately I thought it a brash boast ) but when we met for the interview I asked if he had brought the pendulum with him . |
| 10 | I 've been told there 's no real translation in any language for the English conception of fair , which is oblique justice redefined for every circumstance . |
| 11 | By then , however , such was the devastation of churches and church lands that although the York clergy granted a tenth , which was to be collected in two instalments during 1317 ( a delay eloquent of their difficulties ) , they successfully insisted on a revised valuation of their livings : instead of the tenth being levied on the 1291 valor , compiled before the Scottish war began , it was to be calculated according to the true current valuation of livings , a reduced level which endured for the rest of the Middle Ages . |
| 12 | This time Zimbabwe made the most of it , and midway through the half wing Victor Olonga pounced for a try . |
| 13 | The twins ' outfits for the panto , two of which they modelled for a preview , have cost £13,500 . |
| 14 | The third narrative tells how George Meredith modelled for the corpse in the painting and how his wife then ran away with the painter ( see also the sonnets in Meredith 's Modern Love ) . |
| 15 | Laidlaw checked for a pulse . |
| 16 | There , she checked for a pulse , fearing for a moment that she had killed him . |
| 17 | In a sudden blur of motion , he leapt away from Grant and sprinted for the cover of the trees . |
| 18 | Robert Bevan , one of their number , had worked at Pont-Aven and had known Paul Gauguin , and Sickert , whose sympathy with France went deep , owned a house in Neuville , on the outskirts of Dieppe , which he lent for a time to the Gilmans . |
| 19 | Mr Nasta has used two large rooms to display the works , all of them privately owned and personally lent for the occasion . |
| 20 | This Meeting consider that the sum appropriated for the Steam Boat last year would be best disposed of by carrying on works of utility to the Island … " |
| 21 | Consequently , our analysis used statistical methods appropriated for the analysis of data with unobserved effects ( our data comprised of a large number of daily histories , in the late 1980's which had been previously collected ) . |
| 22 | I was told that his legal advisers were concerned that if he applied for a taxation this would amount to an adoption of the bills and prejudice his other objections to the bill . |
| 23 | On arrival he applied for a passport , but neither the French , the Austrian or the Prussian embassies were willing to provide one and he was ultimately obliged to travel disguised , on a Swiss passport . |
| 24 | Without Coleman 's knowledge , and without consulting the DIA ( on this basis , they had no reason to do so ) , either Hurley or Dany Habib had subsequently used those papers — in particular , the copy they had taken of Coleman 's Thomas Leavy birth certificate — to obtain a passport for one of their own people in Egypt , thus cocking the trigger for a possible violation alert when Coleman also applied for a passport in that name two years later . |
| 25 | When they acquired holes he applied for a clothing grant . |
| 26 | Not all the crew was impressed with the wild beauty however , although Dave Scadding , my number one really fell in love with Scotland , so much so that he applied for a transfer to Kirkwall on our return to Southampton . |
| 27 | We applied for a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund on the basis that its support alone could save the church . |
| 28 | He applied for a grant of land and this was sold to him for a nominal sum . |
| 29 | And he was a wounded pensioner er and he , he applied for a grant which you , which er a wounded soldier in the First World War could get if you had a pension he could get a grant of that pension to learn a trade . |
| 30 | She applied for a grant , and in , er in career , it says like , |