Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [vb past] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a new strap fitted , but had the old one retained for posterity . |
| 2 | In nineteen sixty six I stood for election of the national organizer and was successful and joined the head office in Glasgow in May nineteen sixty six . |
| 3 | The People 's Assembly on Nov. 13 approved a budget for 1991 which provided for expenditure of £S84,690 million ( US$7,548 million ) , representing an increase of 37 per cent over the 1990 budget [ see p. 38069 ] . |
| 4 | Thanks to the hundreds who wrote for information following our article Womenwealth ( Update NI 172 ) . |
| 5 | In 1946 he reported for duty in the English Department with another young lecturer , a modernist called Henry Gifford . |
| 6 | The bass clef is the normal one used for tenor trombones , the tenor clef being used for the top fifth or so of their compass . |
| 7 | The smaller specimens I returned to the water , but anything over six inches long I fried for breakfast . |
| 8 | ‘ I want to thank you for all you did for Mam . |
| 9 | They could also take from the forest all they needed for fuel , building , hedging , and so on . |
| 10 | ‘ George Harrison taught me that — I was at his house , and I noticed that all he had for breakfast was fresh fruit . |
| 11 | I shut him up in my cellar with all he needed for painting and a bottle of cognac , and my maid , who was a very pretty girl , served as his model . |
| 12 | On 1 March 1950 it voted for Security Council Resolution 465 calling on Israel to dismantle its settlements ( including East Jerusalem ) . |
| 13 | The Ayrshire Cattle Society was founded in 1877 and its first herdbook published the following year , but there continued to be conflict between those who bred for show and those who bred for commercial production . |
| 14 | The 1530s , therefore , saw some tentative official moves towards religious reform , although they all reflected the tension between the forces for conservatism and those who looked for change . |
| 15 | This meant that some of those who qualified for money received literally nothing at all . |
| 16 | Coun Carr said Cleveland was the only county in which bus services were provided free to those who qualified for bus passes . |
| 17 | Only five per cent of those who bought for cash said they had even considered credit as an alternative . |
| 18 | The youth and inexperience of Gaston II caused concern to those who worked for peace in south-west France ; above all , to the Pope . |
| 19 | The ‘ Europeans ’ lined up with the ‘ technologists ’ ( and those who spoke for party opinion in the Commons ) against the Treasury . |
| 20 | Hilda Bernstein , the wife of one of those on trial , wrote : ‘ The Rivonia trial was a confrontation in which the opposing forces in South Africa appeared face to face ; those who stood for apartheid … and those who opposed it . |
| 21 | Many churchmen may have disapproved of the practice ; but to those who flocked for cure , it was a proof of the king 's holiness , and a sign that Helgaud 's miracle-worker king had not been entirely forgotten . |
| 22 | In Oman on April 3 he appealed for intervention by the Arab League and the Organization of African Unity . |
| 23 | In April 1688 he stood for election to the Camden chair of history , but was beaten by his High Church rival , Henry Dodwell [ q.v. ] , whose canvasser Proast was . |
| 24 | His parents thought he was selling raffle tickets , but first he went for swim with friends in the River Wye at Broomy Hill . |
| 25 | During a mass in Cape Verde on Jan. 25 , he said that the developments in Eastern Europe should not lead to the international community forgetting the plight of the Third World , while in Mali on Jan. 28 he appealed for harmony between the Christian and Moslem religions . |
| 26 | It failed because the French and the British were unhappy about supporting such a move and indeed the United Nations looked very likely er er to be more erm willing to condemn the United States than it was to condemn North Vietnam but the view of most countries in the world at that time was that North Viet that North and South Vietnam were part of the same country , that the Geneva accords in nineteen fifty four which called for unification should be upheld , and that the United States was interfering in , in a south east Asian country for no good reason . |
| 27 | It failed because the French and the British were unhappy about supporting such a move and indeed the United Nations looked very likely er er to be more erm willing to condemn the United States than it was to condemn North Vietnam but the view of most countries in the world at that time was that North Viet that North and South Vietnam were part of the same country , that the Geneva accords in nineteen fifty four which called for unification should be upheld , and that the United States was interfering in , in a south east Asian country for no good reason . |
| 28 | The landlord was aware of the fact that she had made that application but , notwithstanding that , on 4 December 1989 he applied for execution . |