Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [vb pp] for the " in BNC.
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| 31 | From the time of Bede the Christian era became established for the dating of charters , but at first only in England . |
| 32 | I had nothing against Dr Hill , except that he seemed to me an entirely incongruous appointment that Harold had made for the wrong reasons . |
| 33 | This followed a referendum in January , held without Supreme Soviet approval , in which a large majority of the Crimea 's predominantly Russian population had voted for the restoration of the Crimean ASSR outside the Ukraine . |
| 34 | According to the 1990 report of the UN Economic Commission for Africa ( ECA ) , 100 million people , one-quarter of Africa 's population , were receiving less than 80 per cent of daily food needs , and per capita incomes had fallen for the 12th successive year . |
| 35 | Linfield 's board , alarmed by the adverse publicity , released an unprecedented statement outlining their position and policy , and revealing that over 70 Catholics had played for the club in the past . |
| 36 | Thomas Boleyn had acted for the duke in 1469 , and his brother and heir William witnessed a ducal charter in 1480 in company with known retainers of the duke . |
| 37 | Thomas Boleyn had acted for the duke in 1469 , and his brother and heir William witnessed a ducal charter in 1480 in company with known retainers of the duke . |
| 38 | It was to be based on a report which the plaintiff had prepared for the Greek Government . |
| 39 | Mahomed had appeared for the defence in a number of political trials , became the first black Senior Counsel in 1974 , and had since become president of the Lesotho Court of Appeal , a member of Swaziland 's Court of Appeal , and a member of the Supreme Court in Namibia , whose Constitution he helped to draft . |
| 40 | By early February , Coleridge had achieved for the moment something like contented self-sufficiency in both his inward and outward life . |
| 41 | The dangerous logic of events was leading to a predictable conclusion , though Sarah and Coleridge had met for the first time only nine days before and were of fundamentally different temperaments , she sharp-tongued , humorous and practical , he procrastinating and visionary . |
| 42 | Mr had opted for the figure nineteen , for the multiplier in the pleadings in this case . |
| 43 | Security guard Fred had played for the Scholes club near Rotherham , South Yorks , since he was only 12 . |
| 44 | There were unpaid bills , receipts and invoices , all spread around the large dog-eared ledger that Fred had used for the past-few years . |
| 45 | Both governments had asked for the help of the governments of Argentina , Chile and the Andean Pact countries ( Bolivia , Ecuador and Peru ) to resolve the matter . |
| 46 | Matlock , who won the Trophy in 1975 , lost 1-0 at home to Stalybridge Celtic , but Celtic 's centre half Micky Kilduff had signed for the club only six days before the game , instead of the seven laid down in the rules , so the match has been awarded to Matlock . |
| 47 | Patterson had arranged for the hand delivery to a firm of corporate solicitors who had an office in Bloomsbury round the back of the British Museum . |
| 48 | Patterson had arranged for the solicitors in Bloomsbury to ring him immediately the jiffy bag arrived , so that end was covered and I was pretty sure that 's where the Airborne messenger was heading without further interruptions . |
| 49 | I 'd picked the Bloomsbury address from a handful of alternatives Patterson had offered for the set-up as the easiest route and also the time , early afternoon , though in town these days the traffic was a matter of pot luck with the odds stacked on it being bad . |
| 50 | The speech Rain had prepared for the police about the keys dried . |
| 51 | The policy of encouraging population increase , initiated by the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini , had caused the national population to grow within 14 years from 36,000,000 to 60,000,000 , with 45.5 per cent aged under 15 , according to a report in the Economist on Oct. 3 ; Vice-President Massoud Roghani Zanjani had called for the policy to be reversed . |
| 52 | However , the Palace did deny a report that senior royal officials had admitted for the first time that the marriage was in difficulty . |
| 53 | The officials had opted for the more prestigious Royal Mail charge , rather than the more tenuous one of murder of the post-boy . |
| 54 | The Court said that Savory Milln may have felt some anxiety and even suspicion as to how Mr Ferriday had arranged for the £13.5m to be paid on his behalf , but it was going too far to say that any honest and reasonable man would have inferred that Mr Ferriday had misappropriated Eagle 's money in gross breach of his duty as a director or that any honest and reasonable man would not have applied the money , as Savory Milln did , in discharge of sub-underwriting liabilities until he had been satisfied that the monies were properly paid . |
| 55 | Two masons who were chiselling at the finials which Flemyng had ordered for the gables would stop their clinking from time to time to confirm something that one or other had said . |
| 56 | He found the bag of bread and sultanas that Philip had filled for the pheasants . |
| 57 | Fears had grown for the safety of Pringle 's former girlfriend , 21-year-old Leanne Rees , who had been held hostage in the house since Sunday . |
| 58 | Dr Mackintosh had left for the weekend , but Dr Lange , the literary one , would be free to see him in the morning . |
| 59 | Owen had borrowed for the day some skilled police trackers , men who could follow a trail , or a man , even through the crowded streets of Cairo . |
| 60 | No doubt a lack of soap and water had accounted for the black faces , and not the pigment of their skin . |