Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb past] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when I did so , the words I uttered for the record were that I could not accept that the proper constitutional practices , as I understood them , were being observed . |
| 2 | The journalists who worked for the popular newspapers were only concerned to please their readers , and the truth was irrelevant . |
| 3 | The results represented a success for the Moderates and for two parties who exceeded for the first time the statutory 4 per cent threshold for parliamentary representation — the Christian Democrats ( whose only previous representation had been in 1985-88 when one of the Centre party 's seats was allocated to Christian Democrat in an electoral pact ) , and the New Democracy Party . |
| 4 | The pictures she shot for the cinema were negligible compared to the pictures she shot for pure publicity . |
| 5 | The directors understand they have a credibility problem with the supporters who called for the sacking of the board at the end of last week 's drawn home game with Partick Thistle . |
| 6 | Those flares you fired for the war you ended are still burning for the peace that you won . |
| 7 | Enthusiasts , such as the Nobel prizewinners who vouched for the SSC 's promise in Washington on April 13th , would point out that the SSC is not meant to boost the superconductor industry — it is meant to find new physics . |
| 8 | He had no sense of give and take ; no idea of the concessions one made for the sake of social comfort . |
| 9 | They had failed to change with the times , so the speeches they wrote for the Queen did her no favours . |
| 10 | Unlike the role it played in the IFL , political anti-semitism never became a total ideological explanation of all the imagined ills of British society for most of the official leadership of the BUF , though there were obvious exceptions like William Joyce and some of the speakers he trained for the East End campaign of 1935 — 7 . |
| 11 | And the traps he set for the villains would have killed them . |
| 12 | The largest opening in the archosaur skull was the orbit , housing the eyes ; behind this were two temporal openings which allowed for the bulging of the jaw muscles and might even serve to make the skull lighter , since with increasing body size every feature that could reduce weight helped . |
| 13 | In Kufra , the barber , the hotel cooks , some shop managers , tailors and garage mechanics were non-Libyan , as were some of the workers in those larger gardens which produced for the market . |
| 14 | It was the visitors who pressed for the meeting . |
| 15 | He was one of 100 youngsters who auditioned for the role of a boy who remains on stage all through , being told the story in flashback . |
| 16 | The building was sanctioned by Oldrado da Tresseno in his capacity as the city governor , and the city 's chief magistrate sat in the huge room on the first floor flanked by two judges who adjudicated for the civil and criminal trials . |
| 17 | Most burghers who voted for the right did so to express uncertainty and fear about the looming costs of unification . |
| 18 | If in past decades we waited for the telegram to arrive , it did not lessen the shock , but it did prepare us for the event . |
| 19 | But the only thing that was important about the film was its length and the ill omens it offered for the future . |
| 20 | The illustrations she produced for the book were based on copies of old master paintings . |
| 21 | The illustrations she produced for the book were based on copies of old master paintings . |
| 22 | Where did you get the inspiration for the hairstyles you created for the Awards ? |
| 23 | But our to avoid that situation I left and went to work with which kept me in the Edinburgh branch and within three or four weeks I stood for the local organizer and had not been successful . |
| 24 | For many years I consulted for the American GE in Schenectady and the thing that struck me there was the way that when they wanted to attack a particular area they could mount an army of people on it , all of whom were pretty good . ’ |
| 25 | I use to dread going in to work — in the two years I worked for the Inland Revenue I do not think I worked a full month — and in the end I left . |
| 26 | Bad days she reached for the neck of the nearest bottle , never quite drunk , never quite sober , maundering on to Francis about the impossibility of love . |
| 27 | Yong 's father was appalled at the idea , but was finally persuaded to invest in fifty tons of raw salt , to be used in the curing of the venison which abounded in the Eastern islands , as well as several hundred plastic chairs , and a quantity of spare diving equipment for the pearl-shellers who worked for the Aru branch of the Tan family . |
| 28 | But many of the Andalucian farm workers who voted for the Socialists in 1982 and 1986 are turning to Mr Pacheco 's party to voice their discontent . |
| 29 | Despite his disappointments he starred for the South African side which played as Springboks against the Juniors late last season . |
| 30 | After 10 years he worked for The Farmers Journal . |