Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [vb past] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A thickly built oak and beechwood sixteenth-seventeenth century refectory table from the Pyrenees , admittedly characterful ( Tajan 's auction staff used it for stacking their telephones on ) but more than difficult to place in a modern apartment , sold for FFr650,000 ( £67,550 ; $117,500 ) , over twice its high estimate . |
| 2 | Last year the Home Secretary reappointed him for five years : the first of the BBC 's 17 chairmen since incorporation in 1927 to receive a second full term . |
| 3 | The project concentrates on the employment experiences of the graduates in question and examines the extent to which their degree courses prepared them for employment . |
| 4 | In New York , Lamumba Carson of black nationalist rap group X-Clan criticised her for ‘ contributing to the extinction of the black race ’ . |
| 5 | That Nature form 'd me for his Lordship 's Slave . |
| 6 | The BBC Monitoring Service used them for deciphering ‘ jammed ’ radio broadcasts , and my solicitor , at least , was still dictating into an Edison Voicewriter in 1973 . |
| 7 | From the rear verandah , Gran Keith called them for lunch , still with her knitting in her hand . |
| 8 | In 1974 , the fire brigade moved into new premises , rendering the existing building useless — so the local district council bought it for £36,000 and changed it into the block of 10 flats for elderly people . |
| 9 | This brief experience as a merchant seaman qualified him for another voyage , this time on an American cargo vessel bound for London . |
| 10 | The week Miles reviewed them for EVO they changed their name to the Pink Floyd . |
| 11 | The sturdily independent high tech sector had naught for the comfort of either major party in the run-up to today 's by-election in Newbury , Berkshire when the big guns from party headquarters showed up for photocalls during the build-up : Labour chose Vodafone Group Plc and tried to commiserate about the recession , only to be told that business had been going gangbusters for several months , the Tories went looking for green shoots at Micro Focus Plc , only to be told that the UK market was flat on its back , and that it was only foreign sales that were keeping the old Coboller busy . |
| 12 | He may have remembered St Mary 's Tyne Dock , where he freely sanctioned certain things that were illegal because the parish church council wanted them for purposes of devotion . |
| 13 | In 1954 the publishing firm Methuen approached him for a Christmas card , as did the National Marriage Guidance Council , the latter printing 6,700 copies of his design . |
| 14 | During the Second World War , trainee fighter pilots used them for target practice , and as recently as 1968 , they were still being hunted for sport . |
| 15 | We were then taken by boat about ten miles to Bone where an armed Army escort awaited us for interrogation and we were kept in a locked room in the barracks . |
| 16 | But although Frank took two wickets for South Africa and cousin J.T. took one for England , they failed to get each other out . |
| 17 | The world champion may not be worried about the £500 fine handed out for throwing the last game of his bizarre straight-games loss to Jahangir Khan in the final of last month 's Stuttgart Open , but he should be more concerned at the zero computer points assigned him for the Stuttgart tournament , which may enable Jahangir to overtake him in the New Year rankings , plus the fact that any further misdemeanour will probably mean draconian punishment . |
| 18 | Maybe an hour at most , ’ lied Lawrence , not knowing what the hell Cardiff wanted him for anyway . |
| 19 | The coal review did nowt for them either . |
| 20 | The British officers of the crack Arab Legion entertained us for our weekend . |
| 21 | Although I would have been surprised if London 's Charles Dickens Society required its members to put on a white tie for its annual dinner , the invitation card demanded it for the Scott dinner . |
| 22 | That 's what these slate quarry owners wanted us for us to fall back . |
| 23 | Livingston , who has vowed to clear his name after British athletics chiefs banned him for four years for drugs cheating , said : ‘ I am being imprisoned for something I have n't done . |
| 24 | ( We should point out that you are not here being asked to use the co-ordinates for the purpose Lewis intended them for , to determine the truth of a sentence . |
| 25 | A Panel statement criticised him for a breach of General Principle 3 of the Takeover Code , which requires that a bidder should ‘ only announce an offer after the most careful and responsible consideration . ’ |
| 26 | His guardian uncles intended him for an academic career , and his brother Christopher , presumably of similar intelligence and attainment , later became Master of Trinity . |
| 27 | In Bishopgate Motor Finance Corporation v. Transport Brakes Ltd. ( 1949 C.A. ) someone who was hiring a car under a hire purchase agreement offered it for sale by auction at Maidstone market . |
| 28 | The Welshman kicked the ball away and referee Dangaard dismissed him for a second bookable offence . |
| 29 | It is time Celtic won something for their fanatical supporters . ’ |
| 30 | It was a long time after their invention that yarn spinners adapted them for their own purposes . |