Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Maastricht , the Germans argued for a common foreign policy for the European Community . |
| 2 | But le Havre and Cherbourg opted for a simple and austere classicism , with the new vogue for geometrical emphasis to the fore . |
| 3 | French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas arrived for an official visit on Nov. 22 . |
| 4 | Brazil called it a step backward in international relations and Mexico called for an immediate cessation of hostilities . |
| 5 | Marilla thought for a long time . |
| 6 | was a bottle of of whisky from that distillery went for a huge p price at one of the big |
| 7 | Uwe Otten , H.P. Lorenz and F. Busiger of the University of Basel and Hoffmann-La Roche looked for a possible connection with the protein nerve growth factor ( NGF ) . |
| 8 | And so it was all along the line , from Telnitz in the south , right the way to the Olmütz road , where the plain rose into the foothills of the mountains to the north ; and after he had disappeared into the tumult and light , neither Thiercelin nor Epitot spoke for a long time . |
| 9 | At the Invalidenstrasse crossing point , East German ‘ Trabbi ’ cars queued for a quick sightseeing trip West . |
| 10 | Molly waited for an embarrassing reminiscence and got it . |
| 11 | Crevecoeur had for a brief , intoxicating time enjoyed intimate relations with Ms Micklemas , an affair whose firepower had been skyfilling and radiant and whose energy devoured itself within two weeks . |
| 12 | The headless trunk stood for a long second , the blood fountaining in a gush of scarlet from the raw stump of its neck , before collapsing bonelessly to the mat . |
| 13 | Sahnoun appealed for a large increase in the amount of aid promised . |
| 14 | FOUR months after attending a weekend course on team building and sales training , staff from Treasury and Capital Markets , Scotland met for a day-long follow-up session in the conference room at Drummond House . |
| 15 | At the end of the month , Raybestos and the IDA applied for a temporary injunction to prevent Michael Lenihan of Ringaskiddy , and anyone acting on his behalf , from picketing the dump site . |
| 16 | For statistical reasons and because of the ever changing pattern of pedestrian and vehicular movement at treated sites and elsewhere the first Plan argued for an annual ‘ gross ’ target reduction of 60 casualties . |
| 17 | On 10th August , the day the Bill was ordered to be withdrawn , Hope asked for a Royal Commission to consider the whole affair . |
| 18 | The Queen asked for a three-month cooling off period . |
| 19 | Christopher arrived for a Dry Martini with his officers , some in battle-dress , some in denim fatigues like their men . |
| 20 | Rather than addressing individual anomalies by directives , ICAS called for a conceptual framework and a single model tax treaty , to be signed by all EC members , which would in itself result in harmonised treatment of cross-border transactions . |
| 21 | You see the difference there was Thomson pulled for a short ball there and he was ignored . |
| 22 | Last night , Cockerill called for a long suspension should Wright be found guilty . |
| 23 | On December 12th Mr Vicari called for an extraordinary general meeting to clear up the uncertainty over the firm 's future . |
| 24 | Later on in the meeting , Council member David Lindsay called for a full report on Training Outside Public Practice , following his discovery that 62 of the 77 students currently training under TOPP are employed by the National Audit Office . |
| 25 | The PPP called for an independent inquiry to clear the damage to its reputation caused by assertions that the hijackers were members of Al Zulfiqar , an armed resistance group with PPP connections which had operated in the 1980s and was involved in a hijacking in 1981 [ see pp. 31071-72 ] . |
| 26 | Professor Heiz called for a six-month period of study to be devoted to the Corbie site before work proceeds on the school . |
| 27 | Today in the Commons the Tory MP and spy writer , Rupert Allason called for an immediate investigation into the latest findings . |
| 28 | Doubt was cast on Cameron 's results partly by the lack of control data he offered , and , later , after his death , his reputation for scientific integrity was irretrievably damaged by the revelation that much of his experimental work had for a long time been secretly supported by the CIA , including some rather insidious studies of the effects of covertly administered LSD on the behaviour of unsuspecting people . |
| 29 | They travelled up the goods line from Blackburn waited for a clear road at Hellifield Junction , got onto the long drag and worked up to the summit . |
| 30 | Otley and I held on to him while Nigel searched for a large piece of wood to haul him out with , and in the meantime we had a close-up of the lush vegetation of the riverside : buttercups , forget-me-nots , dog roses and honeysuckle and the shy little water avens modestly hiding its peach-coloured face . |