Example sentences of "[vb past] for [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Wild ’ Charlie Mander , the British consul , and Sheriff Felipe Almodovar , the self-styled ‘ Law South of Tierra del Fuego , ’ met for talks in an attempt to reach a settlement , but tempers rose and shots were exchanged . |
| 2 | Khadafi and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak met for talks in February and June to discuss regional issues and ways of increasing co-operation in agriculture , industry , health and telecommunications . |
| 3 | They often rode for hours in contented silence , remembering the good years behind them when everything had been simple and summer seemed to last for ever . |
| 4 | The anti-Dickson camp chortled for hours in the bar about how the boy ‘ spat the dummy ’ . |
| 5 | As Christ lived for others in his relationships , so we must serve others , not only in marriage , but in all our friendships and other relationships . |
| 6 | In 1985 Cox 's paper was timely and asked for shifts in American Irish and British labour politics in a wholly correct way . |
| 7 | It is worth noting , however , that the spending priorities have not been radically dissimilar from those planned by the outgoing Labour government , which also planned for cuts in spending on education and housing and an expansion in spending on defence , law and order , and social security . |
| 8 | It provided for cuts in support prices to reduce overproduction , and payment of compensation directly to farmers , on condition that all but the smallest farmers " set aside " 15 per cent of their land from production . |
| 9 | Goods are traded and swopped for items in demand or for services . |
| 10 | The Italian team 's French driver Jean Alesi posed for photographers in the new model but was unable to demonstrate the lightweight 644-B 's abilities at the car 's unveiling as it had broken down on Tuesday before it could be taken on a test run . |
| 11 | They swam for centuries in the sea below the cliffs , until the ringing of the first Christian bell changed them back into children and they drowned . |
| 12 | THE QE2 sailed for repairs in Germany yesterday — classed as a cargo ship . |
| 13 | He opted for Women in Love because of its mining background and the fact that the story focuses on four characters , a suitably economic cast for a small-scale touring company . |
| 14 | Guessing what might greet her in the canteen , she opted for sandwiches in the laboratory , but because today no one else on the team was prepared to forgo his lunch-hour proper she was on her own until she was interrupted . |
| 15 | As the end of the month drew near , the roads and rails leading into London provided scenes that lingered for years in local memory . |
| 16 | Tottenham Hotspur who put Oxford United out of the F A Cup in the fourth round , found life difficult at Fratton Park where Portsmouth forgot their disappointing League form and led Spurs by a Chamberlain goal after forty one minutes , but Gascoigne who tormented Oxford in the last round , equalised for Spurs in the sixty second minutes , and seven minutes from time , that man Gascoigne popped up with a winner . |
| 17 | People who do n't know we drove for miles in the rain so that it might reach them in time . ’ |
| 18 | He was then thrown into a frenzy by a letter announcing the impending arrival of Lando Medici , the richest of American patrons who always paid for ponies in readies out of a Gladstone bag . |
| 19 | The CEGB paid for advertisements in its magazine and funded WWF publications . |
| 20 | The 1ft. 11½ins. gauge Llanberis Lake Railway opened for passengers in the summer of 1971 and this year , it celebrates its 21st birthday on Sunday , June 14 , and all are invited ! |
| 21 | Late visitors still rummaged for bargains in woollens and local atmosphere . |
| 22 | Despite the inconvenience of counting large numbers the twenty-four-hour system persisted for centuries in Italy , but most other countries of western Europe soon adopted the system in which the hours were counted in two sets of twelve from midnight and from noon , respectively . |
| 23 | The buildings we have looked at so far have all been ‘ Doric ’ , the order ( style ) evolved for temples in mainland and western Greece ( above , p. 15 ) . |
| 24 | It called for changes in US regulatory practice to reflect this , and demanded that the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) take more account of health concerns when setting safe levels . |
| 25 | Mr Livingstone called for cuts in defence spending . |
| 26 | We went for walks in the enchanting gardens of Bath . |
| 27 | We had learnt to ride by the time we were four , and we rode everywhere ; no one went for walks in those days . |
| 28 | Although , as we saw for Pakistanis in Rochdale , the culture of immigrants may separate them out from the white community , the children of immigrants will gradually become assimilated into white society , into the wider working class and some , by upward mobility , into the middle classes . |
| 29 | He had the entertaining idea of running a competition , and he advertised for experts in games theory to submit strategies . |
| 30 | But even with his new London base it was impossible to gather enough talent from both his schools for the coming Christmas , so he advertised for dancers in the trade papers and took a chance that he could knock them into shape . |