Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She raced around the driveway on her blue tricycle , took her dolls for walks in her pram — she always asked for a new one as a birthday present — and helped to dress her smaller brother . |
| 32 | It always made for a grand fightfinisher . |
| 33 | This would almost make it only eligible for a speculative developer who reckoned he might be able to pull the right political strings to get the site suitably rezoned for a later sell-on . |
| 34 | I realised that that was an absurdity … after the evidence that India could not be part of the same political system , I still believed for a short time that an Empire of positions — that is to say the possession of points of communication around the globe — gave a significance to this country and a tenable and lasting position . |
| 35 | Meanwhile the patient , who has not been named , was making a rapid recovery and yesterday walked for the first time since the operation . |
| 36 | He once sung for an international audience of 1,000 , in the middle of a moat in Israel . |
| 37 | One of the bodies which strongly challenged the costs — the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy ( CIPFA ) — yesterday called for a new study of the costings . |
| 38 | AGE CONCERN Scotland yesterday called for a public debate on methods of restraint applied to frail elderly people cared for in residential homes or by relatives . |
| 39 | LITHUANIA 'S leader , Mr Algirdas Brazauskas , yesterday called for a united front to establish statehood at the opening of a crucial congress of the republic 's Communist Party . |
| 40 | THE National Front leader , Mr Jean-Marie Le Pen , yesterday called for the mass expulsion of coloured immigrants as the government announced emergency integration measures . |
| 41 | HARD-UP nurses yesterday called for an 8.7 per cent rise — amid fears of pay curbs . |
| 42 | DAVID BISHOP , the 31-year-old Wales rugby league scrum-half who is still in dispute with Hull Kingston Rovers , yesterday pleaded for a top club to buy him and help rescue his international career . |
| 43 | On informal testing each child ignored a toy presented in the half-field contralateral to the removed hemisphere , but promptly reached for the same toy in the ipsilateral half-field . |
| 44 | THE TV presenter Fiona Armstrong yesterday spoke for the first time about why she has quit the breakfast station GMTV — and dismissed talk about the notorious ‘ F ( for fanciability ) factor ’ . |
| 45 | In the mid-1980s the Daily Telegraph probably still spoke for the great bulk of Middle England , when , after Britain had yet again resisted international calls to reduce pollution , it announced : |
| 46 | As late as the 24th , when it was obvious the whole French front was collapsing , the German storm troops still waited for a renewed artillery preparation , and then moved circumspectly , as if half-expecting to walk into some kind of –rap . |
| 47 | The United States was similarly dismayed , for it still hoped for a Labour electoral victory and an eventual political settlement with Jordan . |
| 48 | On the other hand the BDDA scored a triumph , which it circulated " to every mission and school for the deaf and dumb in the United Kingdom " , when it successfully campaigned for the nondiscriminatory insurance of deaf and dumb people in employment under the Workmen 's Compensation , Unemployment and Invalidity Acts which the Lloyd George Government passed early in the twentieth century . |
| 49 | It probably failed for the Mixed Fours were re-introduced as a trial in 1960 and reintroduced yet again in 1974 largely on the initiative of Valerie Wormwald the then Ladies ' Captain . |
| 50 | Falconi , swept over the island , while the Bf109Es of 7/JG 26 also made for the same location . |
| 51 | However , Murray also admitted for the first time how close she came to quitting after Barcelona . |
| 52 | It also argued for the complete removal of executive power from the President as well as the abolition of a number of unspecified prerogatives enjoyed by the President as head of state . |
| 53 | He wisely asked for the downward transition after a circuit and the mare came down to trot , threw her head up briefly and then rounded again . |
| 54 | The congress also agreed for the first time that in order to ensure a separation of the MPRP and state bodies , the Chairman of the Presidium of the People 's Great Hural ( i.e. effective head of state ) should not be a member of the supreme governing body of the MPRP . |
| 55 | He also asked for a similar offence to be taken into consideration . |
| 56 | However , the Guild also asked for a comprehensive home-help service so that women would not worry about the welfare of younger children and husbands , but this was not forthcoming . |
| 57 | The law also provided for a 24 nautical mile " adjacent area " in which the Taiwan government could take precautions against any intrusion . |
| 58 | The legislation also provided for a maximum personal income tax rate of 47 per cent and for corporation tax of 45 per cent . |
| 59 | It also allowed for a renewable one-year freeze on challenges by the courts to six ordinances related to the maintenance of law and order . |
| 60 | That Wednesday a letter also arrived for the young Vicomte de Chagny . |