Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the previous election I stood for election to a United Kingdom Parliament , as did the hon. Gentleman . |
| 2 | Randalstown are the side everyone tipped for league glory . |
| 3 | Only two of the five parties which applied for registration had been accepted — the ruling Popular Rally for Progress ( RPP ) , and the Democratic Renewal Party ( PRD ) . |
| 4 | They intended , they said , to be stricter in the way they selected credit traders who applied for membership , and to distance themselves from ‘ rogue moneylenders ’ . |
| 5 | He said that there had been an unprecedented 37 per cent rise in the number of recently arrived Soviet Jews who applied for unemployment benefit in March , as increasing numbers ended their initial period of direct state support . |
| 6 | And this new form of entertainment was available not only to the ordinary citizens of the Republic but to the innumerable foreigners who came for commerce or pleasure . |
| 7 | When Sussex gentlemen and townsmen began to question the practices of the church , they found new allies in the Flemings and Frenchmen who fled for asylum in the 1540s from persecution by Catholic monarchs abroad . |
| 8 | Prior to his arrival Sotheby 's ( still specialising heavily in books at this date ) had an unwritten agreement with Christie 's that they sent them any pictures brought to their offices and in return Christie 's sent them any books they received for sale . |
| 9 | She thought his Catholicism , the emotion he mistook for faith , was a pity . |
| 10 | Now , however , Freud expands that concept as well and interestingly enough he goes back to the first term he used for repression . |
| 11 | One of the founders so admired the puritan he stood for Parliament in 1968 under the banner of the John Hampden New Freedom Party . |
| 12 | The defenders were unsuccessful in their arguments on the interpretation of the clause in the contract which provided for payment of 75 per cent of the price on delivery . |
| 13 | However , most of the cases which arose for decision were concerned with payments extracted ultra vires by persons who in virtue of their position could insist on the wrongful payment as a precondition to affording the payer his legal rights i.e. they were payments colore officii . |
| 14 | In January 1963 he vetoed an attempt by America 's closest ally , Britain , to join the European Common Market and made a treaty with West Germany which provided for consultation on military , diplomatic and cultural issues . |
| 15 | At our first lunch I asked for canneloni to fill myself up . |
| 16 | ‘ Darlington Business Venture helped me put a package together and draw up a business plan which qualified for Enterprise Allowance . ’ |
| 17 | On the other hand , businesses in the Midlands and North which qualified for UBR reductions were now to receive them more quickly . |
| 18 | She stepped out herself then , hoping to get nearer ; she would like to see what he was doing to her , for she had no clear idea , in spite of the expert descriptions she provided for Cati in their vigils . |
| 19 | 961 patients in rural areas and 1225 in urban areas who presented for screening . |
| 20 | RSPCA thanks rescuers who fought for pony Rescuers who saved a foal from a watery grave were presented with top RSPCA awards at Darlington Town Hall this week . |
| 21 | The reverence she had for glamour touched him . |
| 22 | My master , of course , ambled along like a child and I had to keep him away from the rufflers , those former soldiers looking for easy pickings , the mad Abraham men who danced naked pretending to be insane , the cappers who begged for money and attached horse-locks to the outstretched arms of people stupid enough to give it . |
| 23 | In the Second Test we struggled for possession and spent the whole match backpedalling ’ . |
| 24 | The steersman 's platform , with the huge horizontal rudder bar he used for steering , was right beside them . |
| 25 | To quote the memoirs : ‘ … on Sunday the 4th August 1793 , after having finished the morning duty he always performed in person , of visiting , prescribing for , and superintending the dressing of the wounds of the horses in the infirmary , he sat down to continue his treatise on the outward conformation of the horse , a work he intended for publication : in a short time he informed Mrs. Vial that he felt himself extremely ill complaining of cold to a degree of shivering , attended with a violent headach [ sic ] , and great thirst . |
| 26 | When Pravda became the Bolsheviks ' legal mouthpiece in St Petersburg in 1912 , he suffered the frustration of having many of the articles he submitted for publication rejected by the editors in Russia ; communication between the Central Committee and local party organs was much too tenuous to admit of close supervision ; and , as we shall see , during the war and the revolution itself , Lenin 's word was by no means accepted as holy writ . |
| 27 | In Italy , a referendum in 1988 produced an 80 per cent majority who voted for closure of its two nuclear reactors and against any further spending on a nuclear power programme . |
| 28 | ‘ Every morning , ’ he writes , ‘ I left my mother 's place and went straight to Brion 's , we had a cup of tea and a puff and days after days I left for home at five … |
| 29 | Dogs charged about like lunatics , scattering the chickens and geese which pecked for food in the hard-packed soil . |
| 30 | On the other hand , when the Greater London Council was abolished in 1986 , County Hall on the south bank of the Thames became vested in the London Residuary Body which applied for planning permission to use the main block for mixed hotel , residential and general office purposes unconnected with any local government functions . |