Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [vb past] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other Senate seat up for election went for the first time to the PAN , which won 17.7 per cent of the vote and secured 92 seats in the Chamber of Deputies . |
| 2 | This afternoon the Government and the Department of Transport apologised for the delay . |
| 3 | The Secretary of State asked for the Committee 's comments . |
| 4 | Although programs like DO-IT existed for the PC before anything appeared for the Macintosh it and its close cousins cost several thousand pounds . |
| 5 | The witnesses immediately before him painted a picture of an elaborate liar , one whose testimony could probably not be trusted under oath , and of a petty thief who bought lingerie , so it appeared , with money meant for the contras ; some committee members considered him such a ‘ wacko ’ , in the patois , that his testimony would be next to useless . |
| 6 | Mr Strachan 's time in office coincided for the most part with the tenure as Librarian of the late Professor Denis Roberts . |
| 7 | At Anderson 's a Georgian inlaid mahogany chest on chest went for the princely price of £1,300 while A Victorian 4 foot 6 inc bed with raised back made £1,100 and a Georgian inlaid mahogany serpentine front library table realised £1,050 . |
| 8 | But also by 1967 , expenditure on education had for the first time in history equalled that on defence . |