Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Mauritania , still in dispute with Senegal , was not represented by its head of state , and there was no delegation from Nigeria , which had been represented in Casablanca in December 1988 [ p. 36717 ] ; however , President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda attended for the first time . |
| 32 | 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 ) . |
| 33 | He says : ‘ As the recession deepened clients looked for a greater degree of measurability and a lower investment requirement . |
| 34 | No trace of the plage de l'Arsenal , where Camus glimpsed for the first time the beauty of the Mediterranean . |
| 35 | Lucy hesitated for the merest second . |
| 36 | Edward cried for the next two days , but there was nothing he could do . |
| 37 | Yesterday 's newspaper columns on the election were devoted to Mr Dinkins ' promises to defend Jewish interests in the same way that Mayor Ed Koch did for the past 12 years . |
| 38 | ‘ Nine players in that side appeared for the first team later . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | The sum of£3 8s 6d was raised in this way , and the practice continued for the next eighty years . |
| 41 | On the 5th June 1156 , Frederick Barbarossa married for the second time . |
| 42 | On a wild and windy day , with gusts of rain driving into the side of the crematorium , an Anglican priest waited for the next funeral to commence . |
| 43 | On May 25 India reacted by expelling from Delhi two Pakistani diplomats of similar rank , and on May 26 called off talks with Pakistan scheduled for the following week . |
| 44 | Their friendship continued for the next few days . |
| 45 | The painter Patrick Heron wrote for the New Statesman in London in the 1950s , and used this technique for writing about Braque , whom he compared with Picasso . |
| 46 | Their heyday lasted for the first five years of the Eighties , when they scored the incredible total of 20 consecutive Top 20 hits . |
| 47 | During a break in which the designer 's assistant smeared the mirror above the fireplace with vaseline — ; Meredith had complained it reflected too much light — Dawn Allenby apologised for the drenching smell of eau de Cologne that pervaded her person . |
| 48 | Two local MPs are keen to see the Jet project at Culham extended for a further 4 years . |
| 49 | Milton Keynes made two more champions this week , as Britain 's top ice skaters competed for the National Title at the Bladerunner club . |
| 50 | John 's lamp light lasted for the first few hours of his entombment and from then on he was in total darkness . |
| 51 | The fighting continued for a few seconds before they realised that it was no longer dark . |
| 52 | At the Invalidenstrasse crossing point , East German ‘ Trabbi ’ cars queued for a quick sightseeing trip West . |
| 53 | Molly waited for an embarrassing reminiscence and got it . |
| 54 | However , Syrian officials contended that with the signing of the treaty Syria had for the first time formally acknowledged Lebanon as an independent state . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | The United States accepted for the first time the phrase ‘ legitimate rights of the Palestinian people ’ and called for the participation of the ‘ Palestinian people ’ , a major concession to the Soviet Union , in return for Soviet retraction of its previous insistence on the participation of the PLO , the establishment of an independent Palestinian state , and the total withdrawal of Israeli forces to the 1949 Armistice Line . |
| 57 | Some of the fans remember it , their memory jogged by the 3p programme which the club reproduced for the last round against Bromsgrove . |
| 58 | Some of the fans remember it , their memory jogged by the 3p programme which the club reproduced for the last round against Bromsgrove . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | The decapitated head spun like a ball in the air , lips still moving ; his trunk stood for a few seconds in its own fountain of hot red gore before crashing on to the blood-stained ice . |