Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It led to an abandoned fishing hamlet called Hamningberg , where we camped for the night in a grassy field studded with interesting saxifrages and other flowers . |
| 2 | That evening we left Fort St Nogent on a coach for the Gare de Lyons where we embarked for the south of France on an overnight express . |
| 3 | The overwhelming majority of Russians — some 83 per cent in the 1989 census — lived in the Russian Republic , where they accounted for the same proportion of the local population . |
| 4 | He did no wilful damage but regarded himself as entitled to go where he wished for the purpose in his mind without regard to the rights of ownership and the alleged presence of man traps and spring guns . |
| 5 | In 1837 he was apprenticed to his uncle James S. Stirling at Dundee foundry , where he worked for the next six years and where some locomotives were built for the Arbroath and Forfar Railway which influenced his own later designs . |
| 6 | In business for himself , first near St Paul 's , but by 1812 firmly established at the Royal Exchange in Cornhill ( where he remained for the rest of his career , apart from an enforced absence during the rebuilding of 1838–44 ) , Wilson became the determined champion of a free press — ‘ It is like the air we breathe ; if we have it not , we die . ’ |
| 7 | Mick began , then paused where it asked for the name of the vehicle 's owner . |
| 8 | Working with the head of naval aviation , Admiral Shigemi Inoue , Yamamoto submitted a detailed memorandum to the Minister — where it rested for the moment . |
| 9 | The train braked to a shuddering halt at the Paisley signal box where it remained for the next thirty minutes whilst the driver and guard proceeded to examine the underside and topside of the train . |
| 10 | When the partnership was dissolved he moved his office to Great George Street , Westminster , where it remained for the rest of his life . |
| 11 | This he did , and it was then that I experienced for the first time his unexpected propensity for one-liners , conjured out of thin air . |
| 12 | It was at a dinner party in the flat , when they were in the kitchen together fetching yogurt and raspberries , that I heard for the first time one of them turn on the other in anger . |
| 13 | And I believe it was then , looking on that view , that I began for the first time to adopt a frame of mind appropriate for the journey before me . |
| 14 | Jo Spence I think it was then I was ill that I understood for the first time what it was to be a victim . |
| 15 | But I did it through the love , fo , that I had for the couple , and that because they had waited sixteen year before they eventually found out they could n't have children ! |
| 16 | I must admit the Hockin style was inclined to be more racy than that I used for the Gazette . |
| 17 | Dad Tam : " You promise me you will never tell anybody " til " am deed that I stood for the man who made that statue . " |
| 18 | I decided to go for the pills first , but after three months I was still in agony so I went for the laser operation . |
| 19 | in the endland It was too far to go every day , so I went for the week , came home to the flat at weekends , She had squash , groundnuts , rows of beans on nylon lines She had me for the weeding . |
| 20 | We were nearing the camp , so I aimed for the ruts in the track and put my foot down . |
| 21 | I ducked so fast I was n't sure whether he 'd seen me or not , but it gave me a prickly feeling just to imagine it , so I scuttled for the door and legged it up the spiral stairway three steps at a time , just in case . |
| 22 | And although she listened for the sound of his steps , she did not hear them . |
| 23 | There is little doubt that she pushed for the creation of the Zollverein , imposing trade boycotts if states were unwilling to join . |
| 24 | In the early 1980s , because of her past connection with the military establishment , intellectuals tended to shun her and rumours had it that she worked for the Chinese KGB , the Ministry of State Security . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm pleased with it , ’ Maria responded warily , reminding herself that she worked for the man . |
| 26 | Okay and the other thing that you said for the the first question to what affects what affects he rate of reaction normally in a normal reaction. ? |
| 27 | The lady , who founded the carers ' help line , er , in the literature that you provided for the programme was suggesting that the government should recognise that there are six million unpaid carers . |
| 28 | ‘ So , you were a good , hard-working skivvy ; and the work that you did for the Clarion — was that worthwhile , too ? ’ |
| 29 | and do n't you think it would be a good idea have you said in your letter that you worked for the the therapist ? |
| 30 | ‘ Better than you did for the entire evening . ’ |