Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [vb past] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | SHOOTING victim Jason Ward spoke for the first time yesterday about his week-long ordeal after suffering serious gunshot wounds . |
| 2 | ‘ I ca n't say how I feel , ’ Herr Nordern said for the twentieth time . |
| 3 | Minister of the Presidency Oscar Santamaría signed for the government , while Shafik Jorge Handal signed for the FMLN . |
| 4 | Who makes the ‘ Dual Sound ’ pickup Frank chose for the bridge position on the Ibanez FGM 100 ? |
| 5 | In 1589 Richard Lane asked for the reversion to the post of attorney in the Court of Requests , having acted as deputy in the office for eighteen or nineteen years . |
| 6 | BRITISH officials lost their bid to have Ann Williams reinstated for the 1500m semi-finals after her controversial heat yesterday . |
| 7 | After the first attack in their own home , Miss Brady sent for the police , who took Ferrier away . |
| 8 | This , in similar vein , was what David Whitaker wanted for the Doctor . |
| 9 | Toby Tobias was quickest away and Desert Orchid could find no more , but the race was far from finished , for as Mark Pitman on Toby Tobias made for the winning post Graham McCourt urged Norton 's Coin to a final effort , and as the two jockeys , whips swishing , pushed their courageous mounts up the hill the cheers from the stands which moments before had been tuning up for another Dessie triumph lapsed into a disbelieving murmur : this was not the right script at all . |
| 10 | When they do vote , they usually cast their votes on national issues : Neil Kinnock called for the June 1989 elections to be a judgement on Mrs Thatcher 's term in office . |
| 11 | DAVID Mellor headed for the political wilderness yesterday by comparing himself to a great British hero . |
| 12 | Tony Dennis took the ball on and Raynor was clear on the right , but as Dennis prepared to pass , referee David Phillips blew for the free kick . |
| 13 | Ivan Capelli drove for the March team for five seasons , but says he 's still owed the money in unpaid wages . |
| 14 | When the vacancy created by the resignation of Joseph Moreton at the newly-created Leeds half-day classes arose , Edward Kirk applied for the position , ignoring the advice of John Howard . |
| 15 | Irish centre David Hewitt scored for the Lions . |
| 16 | Sir Percival Sharp fought for the AEC mainly on the first issue — but could find no support — so that the second , the potential extension of the power of central government , went largely unchallenged . |
| 17 | Gary Hurlstone scored for the visitors . |
| 18 | Only yesterday in Oxford Frank Baughan called for the youngsters who beat him and broke his wrist to be birched. frank Bishop is n't today 's only victim . |
| 19 | Charlotte Fischer , Emma Sokell and Sarah Spittle ran both for the College and the University Blues Team , and Vicki Edwards and Katherine Walker played for the University Women 's Tennis Team . |
| 20 | Some of the new poetry Coleridge intended for the joint volume was not written with nearly such ease . |
| 21 | Not known as a conformist , Nigel Kennedy arrived for the concert at Saint James ' Church in his own inimitable style . |
| 22 | Simon Pardy mumbled for the third or fourth time in the aggressive undertone which seemed to be his preferred manner of replying to any remark . |
| 23 | For reasons of his own , the Rev. Stainer voted for the introduction of the Oral Method . |
| 24 | One suggestion which has appeared in print was that the clone should bear the name of one of the Directors which Sir Nigel Gresley ordered for the North British Railway . |
| 25 | O. Charlton applied for the England job the time Bobby Robson got it and did n't even receive a reply from Lancaster Gate . |
| 26 | Just as the Red Sea parted for the Israelites , Claudia thought , not at all surprised at their easy passage . |
| 27 | The chains for the bridge were cast at Upton Magna in Shropshire and thoroughly tested on a machine Telford devised for the purpose . |
| 28 | In Trebizond , Mick Crackbene worked for the Genoese against Nicholas , in the very same ship he 's now sailing . |
| 29 | But it took more , surely , than fourteen years of moderate peace to erase the fighting instinct that had served a race through two hundred years and more of Viking attacks , through the civil onslaughts that led to the fusion of Pict and Scot , of Scandinavian and Gael ; the wars of royal cousin against royal cousin as the descendants of Kenneth MacAlpin fought for the throne . |
| 30 | Mr Nicholls spoke for the first time . |