Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv] for [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Attaingnant lost no time in following the examples of Petrucci and Antico by bringing out in 1529 a Tres breue et familiere introduction pour entendre et apprendre … a iouer toutes chansons reduictes en la tablature du Lutz , containing among other things seven of Claudin 's songs from the Chansons nouvelles … a quatre parties of the previous year , now arranged both for lute solo and for voice with lute accompaniment .
2 Oliver sat still , white with terror , for a second , then shouted loudly for help .
3 Exotic animals would probably have been rarities in the British arenae and even then used only for exhibition , as they would presumably have been too expensive to have suffered damage .
4 A leader of the US socialist party , he twice ran unsuccessfully for President , in 1952 and 1956 .
5 In searching for an effective way of restraining wider areas , the German traffic planners again looked abroad for inspiration and again they found it in a near-neighbour .
6 Under the Mental Health Act 1959 patients maintained on guardianship orders knew that drug treatment could be enforced and therefore appeared regularly for depot injection on the right day and at the right time without pressure or demur .
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