Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She needed some more wood for her carving if she was to complete all the ‘ little comforters ’ , as she called them , during her three-week holiday away from the travel agents where she worked , small , smooth-shaped pieces of wood , lovingly carved and polished by herself to fit easily into the palm and which , much to her surprise and delight , were eagerly accepted by the large rehabilitation hospital in the next town that cared for the blind and mentally sick . |
| 2 | A movement was born that provided for the next four years the reference point for the left , and for artists and what passed for Britain 's Beats . |
| 3 | From here , a futher interpretation of the Miller 's Tale may be proposed which is similar in form to that of Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin recalled just above , although far less severe , morally , than either that proposed for the French fabliau or that of the allegorizers . |
| 4 | Before the building of roads , it was peripheral and resembled that practised for the previous 350 years . |
| 5 | There has been a lot of debate about the reasons for producing complicated patterns on the suture line ; what advantage would this have given the ammonoids over their nautiloid ancestors , that allowed for the explosive bursts of ammonoid evolution ? |
| 6 | In London she settled in Highgate and ventured out from there on the variation of the Grand Tour that beckoned for the young in Europe in the mid 1960s : Paris , Rome , Turkey , Lebanon , Jordan , Tunisia , and across north Africa . |
| 7 | In my opinion the Italian Federation should even now refund substantial sums of money to all the countries that attended for the dreadful food and facilities . |
| 8 | His chances of defending a frail total of 226 slipped away with the steady rain that fell for the last two hours . |
| 9 | The national data computed for Japan ( 1979–1980 ) and that combined for the German Democratic Republic ( GDR ) and Hungary ( 1976–80 ) show minimum risks of a still birth at the second birth order for women aged 25–44 years . |
| 10 | Anyone who indulged in it for its own sake was an out-and-out sinner — and that went for the resulting offspring , too . ’ |
| 11 | It was Daedalian blood that accounted for the native handiness and wit and industry of the people of Ninfania , the father had always thought . |
| 12 | The Leeds manager would never have been given air time on general football matters as he was always perceived as someone who was fronting an organisation that stood for the worst things in football . |
| 13 | I eventually got back to the switchboard and asked for the neurosurgical bed manager . |
| 14 | This spelt out in more detail what 5 Corps had learned from Maj-Gen Schmidt-Richberg about the approach of the Army Group E forces from the south , and asked for the specific authorization 5 Corps required to accept the surrender of these enormous numbers of fugitives as " formed bodies " . |
| 15 | With its occupants pushed firmly back into their seats , the Turbo R thumped a hole in the air and lunged for the far horizon , covering the quarter-mile in a staggering 14.8secs on the way . |
| 16 | But his eyes went back to the Workshops and he frowned and sought for the right thing to say . |
| 17 | He stood and made for the other room . |
| 18 | When I could make it , I got up and made for the nearest shelter . |
| 19 | Freud moved from Vienna in 1938 , when the Nazis took over , and lived for the last year of his life in London . |
| 20 | The two women jumped out and sprinted for the front door of the cottage , Donna struggling with the key . |
| 21 | He seemed embarrassed and stammered for the first time in his English . |
| 22 | He promptly turned off the by-pass and headed for the nearest hospital . |
| 23 | I discarded my unfamiliar new slinky satin pyjamas for my familiar old sweater and jeans and headed for the nearest shops . |
| 24 | The , finally remembering all that I had been told , I capsized myself and grabbed onto the canoe and paddle and headed for the nearest bank . |
| 25 | She picked up her jacket and handbag and headed for the distant clubhouse . |
| 26 | Nails laughed , and headed for the industrial estate . |
| 27 | She left the buffet and headed for the small John Menzies shop opposite . |
| 28 | We flew to San Diego on the West Coast where we hired a car and headed for the bright lights of Las Vegas . |
| 29 | So I left Derek and Brian by the door of the pub and headed for the open country . |
| 30 | As they parked and headed for the open front door , a smiling woman in a dusky pink two-piece and with her silver hair caught back in a chignon appeared to welcome them . |