Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb past] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although more women than ever ran for office , there was no net change in the level of female representation . |
| 2 | During the period of the first Opium war ( 1840–2 ) Jardine pursued banking and insurance in London , and successfully stood for election in 1841 as the Whig candidate for Ashburton ( Devon ) . |
| 3 | She turned round and slowly headed for home . |
| 4 | There are 70 items , grouped into 7 blocks of 10 and loosely graded for difficulty . |
| 5 | So he set off and met a gardener , who had also lived a hermetic life , and also longed for company . |
| 6 | Lawyers should be fairly and reasonably remunerated for work done under the legal aid scheme . |
| 7 | Downstairs in the warehouse , French pork was being offloaded from vehicles and immediately reloaded for distribution in Moscow shops . |
| 8 | We sat through some very boring speeches which attempted to make the thoughts of Mao , Marx and Lenin exciting and accessible to a bunch of dumb women , and then broke for coffee . |
| 9 | I overdosed him and then rang for emergency resuscitation . |
| 10 | Or to jeer at the discredited Baltic Communists who rode in behind the thugs , proclaimed themselves in charge in Lithuania and Latvia and then scuttled for cover . |
| 11 | Each 1 ml fraction was dried and resuspended in 50 µl of 60% ethanol and then assayed for platelet aggregating activity . |
| 12 | At this point apparently , Pliny became unwell ; he lay down on a cloth spread out for him and twice asked for water to drink . |
| 13 | He spoke for one and half hours and barely paused for breath . |
| 14 | The plan gave priority to environmental issues , but also provided for land reform , improved education and administrative and financial decentralization . |
| 15 | The grim 132-page report names British nationals arrested but never prosecuted for child sex crimes in the Phillippines . |
| 16 | Some of the responses to this , although informally phrased because never intended for publication , are worth quoting . |
| 17 | A closer correspondence between behavioural and neuropsychological estimates of speech lateralisation is obtained by only considering ear differences that reach a specified level of statistical significance ( Wexler , Halwes and Heninger , 1981 ) but as Satz ( 1977 ) has argued , the probability of mis-classifying a right hander with a dichotic left ear advantage as right brained for speech is of the order of 90 per cent ( see Chapter 5 ) ! |