Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb past] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | On March 7th , against Wales at Twickenham , we all witnessed at least two acts of complete thuggery when not only were English players stamped on but it was their heads which came in for rough treatment . |
| 2 | The chaos on the military front , the continued threat of German invasion , the disintegration of the domestic economy with the prospects of both famine and civil anarchy : all these established the first emergencies facing the regime , the imperatives which cried out for response . |
| 3 | Turnip salad with capers is no shock today and raw choucroûte salad , an idea Pomiane had picked up in Moscow — buy very fresh choucroûte from the charcutier and stop at the village pump to wash it thoroughly , he told those of his French readers who went in for picnics on canoeing and automobile excursions — should be the joy of vegetarians . |
| 4 | Hopes were rising that the shoppers who rushed out for bargains on offer in the January sales may have finally triggered the long-awaited recovery in consumer spending . |
| 5 | from blackboards and the books you forked out for , |
| 6 | We were watching the tufted ducks which made up for their late appearance this season by arriving in more than usual strength . |
| 7 | Hunter 's approach inaugurated a wide-ranging debate about ‘ community power structures ’ between elite theorists and pluralists which rumbled on for the next two decades . |
| 8 | WIND and rain greeted golfers who turned out for the annual Good Friday match between Tayside Region and Aberdeen District at Forfar Golf Club . |
| 9 | But when I went in , Gerry 's workmanship , when I think of those cupboards he put in for me |
| 10 | Pro-reunification protestors dominated Leipzig 's Karl Marx Square on Monday , shouting down other groups who spoke out for an independent and socialist East Germany . |
| 11 | Before I were yeah , she was on , on war work you see on the hand grenades , that was on the , on the ground floor , of course there were a lot of old cottages er the one at the end , and erm there was something about those oh when , when we did erm er when we did erm locks for the erm hotels there were called , they used to say no they used , there would be about a hundred keys for the guests who clocked in for the er for the hotel and they would each be given a key to the same lock you see , and they used to call those keys to pass , sometimes there was more than a hundred keys to one lock but er wait for the bell or |
| 12 | These are , for example , the nameless and faceless workers who lined up for work in response to Henry Ford 's visionary offer of a $5-per-day paycheck . |
| 13 | The victory of Roman imperialism can in its turn be described as the result of four factors : the new direction given by Rome to the social — that is the military — forces of old Italy ; the utter inability of any Hellenistic army to match the Romans in the field ; the painful erosion of Celtic civilization and its appendages which went on for centuries and ultimately enabled the Romans to control the resources of western Europe from the Atlantic to the Danubian regions ; and finally the cooperation of Greek intellectuals with Italian politicians and writers in creating a new bilingual culture which gave sense to life under Roman rule . |
| 14 | I always thought that what he lacked in defensive qualities he made up for in attacking qualities . |
| 15 | The screen and the ornamental woodwork of pulpit , font lid and choir stalls they chopped up for firewood . |
| 16 | In a discussion with Jenny Ball , we talked about those women teachers who stood up for women 's rights . |
| 17 | Look up old friends you gave up for your partner 's sake . |
| 18 | But I always think so many mums , dads and children who set off for work and school in the morning wo n't be coming back . ’ |
| 19 | In 1980 we changed to a system of community and private nurses who came in for an hour or two in the morning and evening . |
| 20 | After four weeks every group had interviewed four of the original subjects , plus others who came in for a single session , and they had all accumulated a great amount of material . |
| 21 | The first women doctors and lawyers , the women artists and writers , the politicians and trades unionists , the women who came out as lesbians ; and before them the witches and the suffragettes : the paths we walk so freely are paths they laid down for us . |
| 22 | Once they were married adults they settled down for longer periods . |
| 23 | The kind of practical tasks they carried out for the sufferer were of course very variable . |
| 24 | Some of these types who went in for murder as a professional thing would probably take you to the cleaners as soon as look at you . |