Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh pn] [vb past] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were clergy who stayed for a week or two . |
| 2 | The businessmen who last year jostled to fill Mr Collor 's campaign chest now sound like the turkeys who cackled for an early Christmas . |
| 3 | under sections 6(2) and 61(1) of the Financial Services Act 1986 against a firm of solicitors who acted for a person carrying on an unauthorised investment business . |
| 4 | Cheap excursions brought the ‘ trippers ’ , but the holiday-makers who stayed for a week or two were still quite ‘ genteel ’ . |
| 5 | In theory , the captain of a ship was entitled to take into his ship as midshipmen , volunteers , or captain 's servants any of the sons of his friends who hoped for a naval career , but in practice even this form of entrance patronage was limited and largely in the hands of flag-officers , for it would be a captain with a liking for half-pay who would refuse the requests of an influential admiral . |
| 6 | I recognized them as hands who rode for a Mr. Wolgast who supplied beef to the reservation up at San Carlos . |
| 7 | The list of British craft union leaders of this period is filled with men who worked for a spell in the United States or somewhere else overseas , as they might have worked for a spell in Newcastle or Barrow-in-Furness . |
| 8 | An Agence France-Presse ( AFP ) news agency report of Dec. 8 said that ICO Foreign Ministers who met for a preparatory session in Dakar on Dec. 5-9 , had adopted a draft resolution expressing " full solidarity " with Libya in its confrontation with Western states over the Lockerbie affair [ see p. 38599 ] and underlined their " concern over … the possible use of force " . |
| 9 | However , many thanks to my MP , Derek Foster , and all others who voted for a more civilised society and thanks on behalf of the unfortunate foxes , stags and hares , still running for their innocent , tormented lives and still relying on humanity to get moving . |
| 10 | Powell also displayed remarkable agility in dealing with the numerous Los Angeles collectors who vied for a share of the museum 's limelight . |
| 11 | Alan Hey , who graduated in that year and now works in Sheffield , is planning a party for students who studied for a Diploma in Ceramics or a Manager 's Diploma in Ceramics . |