Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [vb past] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the first day of a two-day visit to the United Kingdom , de Klerk saw the UK Prime Minster , John Major , on April 22 and appealed for help in winning investment . |
| 2 | There are 50 items , grouped into 5 blocks of 10 and graded for difficulty . |
| 3 | Some of the modem homes are too clinical , impersonal and routinized for comfort . |
| 4 | The conversation broke off sharply when he became edgy and scrambled for cover , telling her to go away . |
| 5 | He had felt the power of his position when he had taken a bottle to the room of any major and propositioned for information on the talk in the mess when he , the KGB 's ears , was not present . |
| 6 | But without doubt the most contentious defector to reach the West was Anatoli Golitsin , who arrived at the office of the CIA 's station chief in Helsinki in Finland in December 1911 and asked for asylum for himself , his wife and daughter . |
| 7 | He said that it should not be regarded as a luxury but used for education , rural development and economic reform : the time had come , he said , ‘ for television to change its outlook in this country in order to suit the requirements of a developing country like Zambia ’ . |
| 8 | Strathclyde police described the attack as callous and appealed for information . |
| 9 | Flaubert was distressed and begged for mercy , but she gave him no quarter . ’ |
| 10 | I was off Cley at the time , so I lowered the main and ran for home . |