Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [vb past] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rate recorded for the South East was under half that recorded for the North of England . |
| 2 | She expressed her wonder at this and asked for the name in Italian . |
| 3 | He prepared the altar for Mass , opened the-door and waited for the small trickle of his congregation to enter . |
| 4 | I would have got the answer wrong and plumped for the gin riots . |
| 5 | He seemed embarrassed and stammered for the first time in his English . |
| 6 | I went back into the club proper and headed for the ‘ phone . |
| 7 | The first one was still exploding through my cortex as I gulped the second and reached for the third . |
| 8 | The defendants admitted the validity of the will of 30 June 1978 but contended that the deceased had duly executed a further testamentary paper being a first codicil on 18 April 1986 and counterclaimed for the pronouncement in solemn form for the codicil . |
| 9 | She swallowed hard and waited for the ringing in her head to clear and for the room to steady once more , then , summoning all of her courage , she looked at him with icy contempt . |
| 10 | He swallowed hard and headed for the door that opened out into the hall . |
| 11 | At five hundred feet he banked hard and headed for the balloons . |
| 12 | We stared at the water which was pretty choppy and waited for the Indian to surface but he never did . |
| 13 | She looked young and pretty and relaxed for the first part of the evening until a ghastly sense of anti-climax set in when she realized that many of the young English guests had arrived well watered and rowdy after their coach trip , soon to become hideously drunk on the Ashley 's generous provision of champagne and wine , with a few dainty canapés and other elegant nibbles . |
| 14 | He turned professional when he was sixteen and fought for the featherweight title of Great Britain , a bout he lost to Micky McGuire . |
| 15 | By studying in the evenings at Burslem Art School , Emberton won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in 1911 and worked for the London architects Trehearne & Norman , 1913–14 . |
| 16 | He jerked his arms loose and reached for the head trying to blink the searing pain from his eyes ; He could n't ; in his double darkness he had no choice . |
| 17 | She was woken at half-past five and listened for the sound that had disturbed her . |
| 18 | Mr Tomlinson became very anxious and looked for the passenger both on and under the train . |
| 19 | You saw that they were dead and rang for the police . |
| 20 | Both Jack and Miguel finished with par fours and headed for the PGA hut to check and sign their scores . |