Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh pn] [vb past] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were clergy who stayed for a week or two . |
| 2 | She is the 21-year-old actress from Grange Hill who went for an audition with Mr Winner , and , seven months after he had had his way with her on a regular basis , got dumped . |
| 3 | The name given to an Icelandic shepherd who worked for a farmer named Thorwall . |
| 4 | The businessmen who last year jostled to fill Mr Collor 's campaign chest now sound like the turkeys who cackled for an early Christmas . |
| 5 | The death by drowning of a girl who worked for a Minister of the Crown and who died after dining at the restaurant where the Minister 's wife was also dining , whether or not he himself was present , would normally have justified at least a brief paragraph in one of the national papers . |
| 6 | under sections 6(2) and 61(1) of the Financial Services Act 1986 against a firm of solicitors who acted for a person carrying on an unauthorised investment business . |
| 7 | Cheap excursions brought the ‘ trippers ’ , but the holiday-makers who stayed for a week or two were still quite ‘ genteel ’ . |
| 8 | It was faith in a God Who cared for an individual , and spoke to him , lovingly and regularly . |
| 9 | Of this large number of people I have known of only a small handful of people who opted for a non-Christian funeral . |
| 10 | Conversely , where there is an oversupply of manpower of a particular kind , one may find downwards substitution , e.g. graduates working in ‘ non-graduate ’ jobs , leading sometimes to a ‘ cascade ’ effect whereby people who trained for a particular level of work are systematically displaced by those more highly trained . |
| 11 | The French objective was spelled out more clearly in November by Couve de Murville who argued for a complete overhaul of the Community institutions , in effect implying a revision of the heart of Rome . |
| 12 | The question of who is an " occupant " is discussed in Paterson v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1982 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 37 , where a new manager who applied for a permanent transfer of an off sale licence was held not to be an " occupant " where he had no interest in the premises other than as an employee . |
| 13 | Harry 's weight swung him round but did not tear him from his hold , and it was the boy and not the man who hung for a long , palpitating moment suspended on the edge of the drop . |
| 14 | A man who advertised for a woman to live on a desert island with him is looking for another female travelling companion to repeat the trip . |
| 15 | Mr Mafouz , a big , jolly man who worked for a travel agent , was compiling a dossier on him . |
| 16 | In theory , the captain of a ship was entitled to take into his ship as midshipmen , volunteers , or captain 's servants any of the sons of his friends who hoped for a naval career , but in practice even this form of entrance patronage was limited and largely in the hands of flag-officers , for it would be a captain with a liking for half-pay who would refuse the requests of an influential admiral . |
| 17 | So in the case of a ruler who reigned for a long time , coins enable us to date the changes during the reign . |
| 18 | I recognized them as hands who rode for a Mr. Wolgast who supplied beef to the reservation up at San Carlos . |
| 19 | The list of British craft union leaders of this period is filled with men who worked for a spell in the United States or somewhere else overseas , as they might have worked for a spell in Newcastle or Barrow-in-Furness . |
| 20 | It was also during this period that we had the strangest set of photographs taken of us , by Peter Christopherson who worked for a design company , Hipgnosis — whose offices were at the back of our Denmark Street HQ — and who later joined Throbbing Gristle , a band best known for tabloid spreads on their occult practices . |
| 21 | An Agence France-Presse ( AFP ) news agency report of Dec. 8 said that ICO Foreign Ministers who met for a preparatory session in Dakar on Dec. 5-9 , had adopted a draft resolution expressing " full solidarity " with Libya in its confrontation with Western states over the Lockerbie affair [ see p. 38599 ] and underlined their " concern over … the possible use of force " . |
| 22 | However , many thanks to my MP , Derek Foster , and all others who voted for a more civilised society and thanks on behalf of the unfortunate foxes , stags and hares , still running for their innocent , tormented lives and still relying on humanity to get moving . |
| 23 | Powell also displayed remarkable agility in dealing with the numerous Los Angeles collectors who vied for a share of the museum 's limelight . |
| 24 | Alan Hey , who graduated in that year and now works in Sheffield , is planning a party for students who studied for a Diploma in Ceramics or a Manager 's Diploma in Ceramics . |
| 25 | A contemporary of Gundulić was Junije Palmotić ( 1606–57 ) , a Ragusan noble who lived for a time in Bosnia , and who drew upon the Slav folk tales as well as on contemporary Italian and ancient classical traditions for the abundant outpouring of songs , satires , verse epics and dramas which he composed . |
| 26 | Did n't we have a black guy who played for a few season in the second division with Revie before the real glory years . |