Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb past] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | was a bottle of of whisky from that distillery went for a huge p price at one of the big |
| 2 | ‘ Nine players in that side appeared for the first team later . |
| 3 | In fact , such was the sheer awesomeness of Mr Wilson 's fury that , as one person , the whole assembled mass headed for the door at top speed . |
| 4 | The defence thus utilized one side of the ambivalence — the love and high esteem felt for the father — to build a bulwark against the other — the hate and contempt of the father — in order to inhibit the aggressive egoism of males and make them all equally subject to a primal father-figure who for the first time now became fully internalized as a shared superego . |
| 5 | British sport began for the first time to embrace commercialism , although the process was cautious and gradual . |
| 6 | The old lady struggled for a bit and then subsided back into her chair . |
| 7 | Secondly , the hon. Gentleman asked for a change of policy that would ensure that , before people were discharged from long-stay hospitals , proper provision was made for them in the community . |
| 8 | Mrs Bennet came to clean four times a week now , and another woman came for the washing , and Julia often wondered how she would have managed without them . |
| 9 | Another woman reached for the speaker 's hand and started stroking it . |
| 10 | JOHN Z. DeLOREAN , facing drug charges in the US following the collapse of his Northern Ireland sports-car firm , this week asked for a reduction in bail because he is short of money . |
| 11 | And erm this sub-committee asked for the C H O. |
| 12 | ‘ British Gas asked for a wide-ranging review in order to clarify our regulatory environment and develop a clear way ahead for the future . |
| 13 | But the old Jew sat for a long time in silence as the wind and rain in the darkness outside lashed at the windows of Damiani 's old home . |
| 14 | The Bishop who was now an ageing man resided for the most of his time at Halling , and Trottescliffe . |
| 15 | At that point Wendy Handy 's seven year old daughter asked for a drink . |
| 16 | The public prosecutor asked for a four-year sentence , but the judge sent Meyer to jail for six years . |
| 17 | ‘ What I hope will come out of the book is this : the Americans have a joint US/Russian commission which is looking into the matter , and I think it is about time that the British government asked for a seat on that commission . |
| 18 | The old man spoke for the first time . |
| 19 | His free hand reached for the bottle again , then pulled back . |
| 20 | These two industries dominated the town 's employment as well as its social life and this situation lasted for a century . |
| 21 | Only 11 people turned up but the football team-sized audience asked for an encore and Charman summed it up as ‘ Good . ’ |
| 22 | An English statesman arrived for a feast he had arranged between the Jews present as guests and the Arabs who were their hosts . |
| 23 | admitting things like losing fifty billion quid on fluttering on foreign exchanges er Mr did or flittering away the north sea oil revenue in tax cuts for higher earners rather than er keeping that er once in a life time er bonus that this country had for the north sea oil and also you could mention the increased pension for but it did n't match billions that have been wasted on defence expenditure especially defence expenditure and especially the trident programme . |
| 24 | In the following year another problem arose for the British ; the Red Sea cable to India had failed . |
| 25 | Another candle stood for the trivium , the place where three roads meet . |
| 26 | And they say the sixty-two year old widow died for the sake of a few pounds . |
| 27 | The old Bishop waited for the little murmur of sympathetic approval that ran through the ranks , and they listened just as sympathetically as he rambled on into the usual pious platitudes that ended his eulogy . |
| 28 | From 1865 , however , the foreign office had for the first time a department concerned entirely with commercial affairs . |
| 29 | When Mr Adley , along with Mr Gore-Booth and others , was asked to help restore relations with Syria last year , before the outbreak of war , he and the Foreign Office asked for a specific promise that Mrs Thatcher would not intervene again — and got it . |
| 30 | This was the man , it should always be remembered , who joined the British army and worked as a stretcher bearer in the Zulu rebellion of 1906 , giving as his reason that ‘ the British empire existed for the welfare of the world ’ . |