Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb past] for a " 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 | The old lady struggled for a bit and then subsided back into her chair . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ British Gas asked for a wide-ranging review in order to clarify our regulatory environment and develop a clear way ahead for the future . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | At that point Wendy Handy 's seven year old daughter asked for a drink . |
| 8 | The public prosecutor asked for a four-year sentence , but the judge sent Meyer to jail for six years . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | These two industries dominated the town 's employment as well as its social life and this situation lasted for a century . |
| 11 | Only 11 people turned up but the football team-sized audience asked for an encore and Charman summed it up as ‘ Good . ’ |
| 12 | An English statesman arrived for a feast he had arranged between the Jews present as guests and the Arabs who were their hosts . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Each flag stood for an ‘ incident ’ , green for Moslem-inspired ones , red for those initiated by Copts . |
| 15 | Washington 's key economic gauge faltered for a second month in September . |
| 16 | The falsely affable mask slipped for a second , then de Raimes was smiling again . |
| 17 | The only interesting point to emerge was that the Roman ditch continued an almost certainly unbroken course northwards past the medieval gate and its street to terminate 5.5 m ( 18 ft ) beyond them , while both the early rampart and the Roman wall continued for an unknown distance beyond this end of the ditch . |
| 18 | Despite a slump in the equity markets , the Japanese economy grew for a fourth consecutive year during 1990 . |
| 19 | A dying man asked for a chair to be placed by his bedside , because he sensed that Jesus Christ was sitting beside him in the darkness throughout the night . |
| 20 | MR Ladislav Adamec , the Czechoslovak Prime Minister , threatened to quit last night , as hard bargaining continued for a second day with the opposition over the shape of the new government . |
| 21 | A fine snow fell for a while , then that too ceased . |
| 22 | The previous chapter argued for a conception of music which maintains both the relative autonomy of its techniques and its ultimately social meaning , and which sees these as constructed within a historical dialectic . |
| 23 | The blue tape of smoke from the left hand snaggled for a moment , then the snaggle slid up the tape and disappeared , leaving the smoke rising as steadily as before from the underside of the hand . |
| 24 | Alan Ball admitted his men had it all to do after his men crashed to South Africa , the Australian wicket went for a duck as a defending champion slumped said we are going to have to do it the hard way now , we just did n't play very , we did n't get it together against New Zealand in the first match and today we were never in the picture , our brothers never really had a chance of any attempt of a hundred and seventy , but full credit to South Africa they are a rate , a better to side |
| 25 | A pathetic little shade hovered for a moment at her elbow , reminding her of her other errand . |
| 26 | Sales at the Milton Keynes-based group grew for a majority of its products . |
| 27 | A bitterly-upset Goodway asked for a move after being left out of Wigan 's squad for last night 's game at Sheffield . |
| 28 | Mr Stannard 's confident manner faltered for an instant . |
| 29 | Mr Wolfgang Berghofer , the 46-year-old mayor of Dresden who had been tipped to become the new party chief , said yesterday that he and a renewed party stood for a break with Stalinism and instead wanted socialism with a human face . |
| 30 | 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 . |