Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [vb past] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I repeat that if one adds to that the £40 million from the foundation , the £20 million a year for football and the £1 million that I found for the champion coaching scheme , it is clear that our commitment to sport is greater than anyone 's . |
| 2 | I had an old air-raid shelter , partly dug into the ground because of the slope : there was a load of stones on top , waiting to turn the shelter into an apple store disguised as a rockery , and when Mrs Wilson saw this she stood for a long time looking at the hump in the ground and the pile of stones . |
| 3 | Forming a club enables them to enter competitions together , and this they did for the first time recently at the combined Hampshire and Berkshire county championships , held at Reading gaol . |
| 4 | Hahnemann therefore had to move frequently as restrictions on his practice were imposed in one town after another , but despite this he lectured for a time on homoeopathy in the University of Leipzig and he had a large band of influential patrons and supporters as well as a number of able and gifted pupils . |
| 5 | On Sept. 30 he called for the first time for dialogue to reach an equitable global settlement , addressing himself particularly to France which he had identified as more flexible [ see below for Mitterrand 's UN speech ] , although once again stressing that there would be no compromise over Kuwait belonging to Iraq . |
| 6 | Her house was full of bead curtains and reproduction furniture — a fact which impressed me so much I thought for a long time that Reproduction was a period like Jacobean and Elizabethan . |
| 7 | Guess how much I paid for the Christmas pud ? |
| 8 | In 1979 I interviewed for the first ( and last ) time the newly elected Prime Minister , Margaret Thatcher . |
| 9 | Apart from the cat she was going to spay , no other clients came in , but there was a telephone call from someone who wanted to know how much she charged for a booster injection . |
| 10 | The Pytchley , under Mr. George Payne , gave her two brushes — and three rousing cheers , for she enjoyed the first day 's hunting with them so much she stayed for a second . |
| 11 | In June 1991 they voted for the most democratic free-marketeer on offer in a presidential election . |
| 12 | In the reign of Henry III they accounted for the agistment dues at the Exchequer , but made substantial payments into the Wardrobe from time to time , and paid out sums locally for such purposes as the maintenance of a neighbouring royal castle , building operations , the enclosure of a royal park , and the expenses incurred by the Forest officers in taking venison for the king . |
| 13 | In 1678 he applied for a patent for a new way of processing flax , which may have been related to investigations of this topic made under the society 's auspices in the 1660s . |
| 14 | In the 1650s Howard evidently also developed an interest in industrial practices , and on 27 October 1660 he applied for a patent for a new method of tanning , the subject of a printed broadsheet , Brief directions how to Tanne Leather according to a new Invention ( n.d . ) . |
| 15 | However , when he later became drowsy she telephoned for an ambulance to take him to hospital . |
| 16 | In the early seventies I canvassed for a Labour candidate , who , when elected , turned out to be anti-gay . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm glad you stopped for the children . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm glad she waited for the wedding to be over , ’ whispered Mrs Alderley in Theda 's ear , as she joined her by the French windows that had been opened to the terrace outside . |
| 19 | In 1940 he fell for an actor who was his lover for two years before joining the navy in 1942 . |
| 20 | On 11 March 1812 he volunteered for the San Domingo ( 74 guns ) , probably to avoid being pressed into the navy . |
| 21 | Starving and tired I prepared for the next day . |
| 22 | At the meeting of the Transportation Committee on 5 October 1992 you asked for a report on bus services in the Kirknewton area . |
| 23 | That 's all we did for the statutory undertakers . |
| 24 | and you were sort of given the time and and and er er you know I 'm sure they paid for the books or whatever you needed |
| 25 | Hawaiian they did for a living , jazz they played for themselves . |
| 26 | Next day they had taken the mirror and the pottery and the porcelain to Long Melford because there were more antique shops in Long Melford than anywhere else they had seen , but £20 was all they got for the lot . |
| 27 | In 1964 he stood for the pretty safe ( at the time ) Conservative seat of Glasgow Pollok . |
| 28 | The more the UK Vehicle Division restricted output , the more sure it headed for the final chop . ’ |
| 29 | All in all it made for an uncomfortable meal , despite the chef 's first-class skills , and Sarella at least was pleased when it was all over and Marc , with deliberately precise timing , pushed his chair back to signal that they could now follow him out . |
| 30 | In 1913 he tied for the Open , losing a celebrated play-off to the young local amateur Francis Ouimet . |