Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb pp] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw the naked longing in her amber eyes and realized for the first time how much he had been neglecting her . |
| 2 | Early one morning they tied their stripy woven bags of Tibetan salt on to the yaks and left for the south . |
| 3 | He stoutly resisted these demands and campaigned for the retention of the tramways . |
| 4 | There were heated exchanges inside the GNA on April 22 , and a number of opposition deputies submitted their resignations and called for the GNA 's dissolution . |
| 5 | The protest focused on high rents and called for the resignation of township councillors . |
| 6 | She rose gracefully to her feet and made for the front door , with Melissa following . |
| 7 | The Benghazi force again split into three columns and left for the Jebel at intervals from 4 September . |
| 8 | My description of an amazing 18-light silver chandelier weighing over 2,500 ounces and made for the Duke of Abercorn in 1837 has , instead of a photograph of the Duke 's dining room at Baronscourt , where the chandelier had originally hung , one of the entrance hall . |
| 9 | Then he grabbed both cases and made for the airline counter to buy a ticket . |
| 10 | The Palestinian delegation announced its intention to attend committee meetings and called for the establishment of two additional committees covering the status of east Jerusalem and human rights . |
| 11 | It also condemned the system of accommodating workers in single-sex hostels and called for the provision of more housing . |
| 12 | The Dutch were probably right , to judge from a handwritten note de Gaulle gave Chancellor Konrad Adenauer at that time : ‘ The supernational organisms of the six , which tend inevitably and abusively to become irresponsible superstates , will be reformed , subordinated to governments and used for the normal tasks of the council and technical business . ’ |
| 13 | During this run they won the South American Championship for the first time in 40 years and qualified for the World Cup . |
| 14 | While Iraq demanded the unconditional release of all prisoners-of-war ( PoWs ) and their return to their countries of origin on " humanitarian and legal " grounds , Iran insisted that the issue of prisoner exchange could not be separated from territorial questions and called for the simultaneous withdrawal of Iranian and Iraqi troops from each other 's territory with prisoner exchange . |
| 15 | In mid-November another mass meeting reaffirmed the Naythuyein resolutions and called for the dissolution of the recently formed Governor 's Council . |
| 16 | The Congress resolution criticized the reforms and called for the introduction of higher levels of social protection . |
| 17 | I rowed on a few yards and anchored for the sixth time . |
| 18 | In merry companionship both men braved the hardship of the landlord 's sleeping arrangements and settled for the night , chatting idly and humorously across the partition like schoolboys in a dormitory . |
| 19 | We stomped down the stone steps to collect our sacks and made for the Upper Tier of the crag . |
| 20 | He hoisted the contraption in his arms and made for the battlezone . |
| 21 | The NCC urged the government to review school meals and called for the supermarkets to be closely monitored to ensure consumers were not being exploited . |
| 22 | The current account external balance depends on the real exchange rate ( defined as domestic relative to foreign consumer prices and adjusted for the exchange rate ) and domestic and foreign ‘ absorption ’ ( total final expenditure ) . |
| 23 | Although they faithfully echoed the time-honoured myth that the Tsarist government stood above social divisions and cared for the interests of all classes , they firmly grasped that the mainstay of the autocracy was in fact the landed nobility . |
| 24 | The two final sections are reserved almost exclusively for Botticelli , with three illustrations for Dante 's Inferno and a series of monochrome on canvas studies for ‘ The Adoration of the Magi ’ , which has been rescued from the Uffizi storerooms and restored for the present exhibition . |
| 25 | He emphasised the need for benefits of all kinds to be fairly distributed and attacked the dispensing of glasnost' in measured doses ; he drew attention to nationality differences and called for the ‘ perfection [ in other words , reform ] of the electoral system ’ , a point the General Secretary himself first developed in his speech to the Central Committee the following year . |
| 26 | During their student days both Lorraine and Margaret were awarded Heriot-Watt Blues and selected for the Scottish Universities side . |
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