Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [vb pp] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the way Batty was merely a promising youngster when Wilko arrived , and I do n't think Speed had played for the first team . |
| 2 | According to a report on July 11 the French President François Mitterrand had called for the abolition of the consensus rule , saying that " this conference must adapt " . |
| 3 | The chance to buy the land for the gymnasium had disappeared for the time being , but it was not the end , he told himself . |
| 4 | The silver-framed photograph of Philippe Chaumont had appeared for the first time since he had known Chantal . |
| 5 | In 1916 he cited conscription and the suspension of trades union restrictions as things that coalition had done for the nation ; Gleanings and Memoranda headlined the speech " The Coalition Form of Government almost indispensable . " |
| 6 | Defence cuts of up to $8 billion more than the Bush administration had planned for the fiscal year beginning in October . |
| 7 | The outcome of this work , which was carried out just after candidates had enrolled for the Batch 1 courses , is still awaited . |
| 8 | By July 30 , 12 candidates had registered for the presidential elections due to be held simultaneously with legislative elections on September 29-30 . |
| 9 | In 1983 , of the 1 16 ‘ publishers and journalists ’ standing only 45 were elected : 30 of the 71 defeated candidates had stood for the SDP ! |
| 10 | The opposition had asked for the nullification of an amnesty decree passed by the former government on those who had committed offences during the May protests , including Suchinda . |
| 11 | The fact that had struck them both , however , was the date the genotyping had given for the conception of the boy : a date which coincided with a visit Wyatt , Berdichev and Lehmann had made to a singsong house in the Clay . |
| 12 | This was the second success that Pat had landed for the Scott stable since his return , the other having been on Crawford Says who beat subsequent Irish national winner Ebony Jane at Fairyhouse . |
| 13 | The Goodison Park manager admitted Arsenal had moved for the centre-half — as exclusively revealed in TODAY earlier this month . |
| 14 | It was true that there were now ‘ whole chanceries ’ of paperwork in the offices of village-Soviet secretaries , but most of the secretaries had worked for the volost' in the Tsarist regime and were somewhat suspect . |
| 15 | After the boat had stopped for the night there was always some work still to be done on the platform . |
| 16 | Williams , certain that he had not been detected by Tawell , returned to his office , confident that Tawell had retired for the night . |
| 17 | The Scots had compensated for the lack of indigenous wealth by developing a tradition , over the previous century and a half , of regarding themselves as far more powerful , more important , more interesting than their remote geographic position and comparative poverty actually entitled them to be . |
| 18 | Kingsley Barrett , the Methodist , whom Ramsey had chosen for the faculty at Durham , wrote of his belief that a special providence must watch over the Church of England to give them at least some good bishops in spite of the deplorable method of their appointment . |
| 19 | The Medellín cartel had pressed for the confession stipulation to be dropped ; it wished to be considered as a group and given political status [ see p. 37851 ] . |
| 20 | Lawrie had worked for the organisation for four years but had not been offered an interview , he claimed . |
| 21 | I could not finish them until after Dana had left for the States , when I would sit day after day beside my desk , trying to write , while on the other side of Avondale Buildings the children screamed and shrieked in the playground . |
| 22 | ‘ Tell me about it , ’ she said , leading Gwendolen firmly downstairs and into the garden where in defiance of the threatened rain Mr Blackwell had prepared for the serving of tea . |
| 23 | Next morning Shiona remained in bed until she was certain that Jake had left for the office . |
| 24 | Joanne spoke with the same contempt Jacqui had shown for the high achievements of forensic science . |
| 25 | When he asked about the lack of black faces , he was told that no blacks had qualified for the university because of the institution 's high standards . |
| 26 | Once , trying to resist his Destiny , Duroc had studied for the priesthood , but the vocation of his family had outweighed the call of Rome . |
| 27 | The ANC had called for the day to be one of national mourning and services and vigils were held throughout the country . |
| 28 | ‘ You ca n't go out like that , ’ said Wendy to Apricot when she was four , ‘ it 's freezing , ’ and little Apricot , in nothing but vest and pants , ran straight out into the street and down the long suburban road to the small playground which a benign council had made for the children in the sharp triangle of land where the railway line intersected the water-purifying plant . |
| 29 | Not a snap or a twang , but the hamstring had gone for the second time in successive matches . |
| 30 | The five other directors had called for the Deanses to leave the board . |