Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [vb past] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who makes the ‘ Dual Sound ’ pickup Frank chose for the bridge position on the Ibanez FGM 100 ? |
| 2 | During the first year the programme targets had for the most part been met . |
| 3 | The men from the Rathcoole district waited for the order to come for their release , but nothing happened . |
| 4 | Milton Keynes made two more champions this week , as Britain 's top ice skaters competed for the National Title at the Bladerunner club . |
| 5 | Some of the new poetry Coleridge intended for the joint volume was not written with nearly such ease . |
| 6 | FOR MANY years British golfers in search of winter sunshine headed for the fairways of Spain or Portugal , but with good exchange rates against the dollar the Atlantic seaboard of the United States has become an alternative . |
| 7 | The chains for the bridge were cast at Upton Magna in Shropshire and thoroughly tested on a machine Telford devised for the purpose . |
| 8 | We drove all day and at 10.00pm reached our destination — a small village called Waldsee — just before the camp site closed for the night . |
| 9 | The old abrasiveness over the community budget had for the moment disappeared . |
| 10 | During the war Montagu worked for the Ministry of Information in the film division . |
| 11 | The Kirgiz leader , Masaliev , called for a unitary USSR with a strong centre ; most other republican first secretaries , however , called for a renewed federation , and the Armenian leader Movsisyan went for the more radical idea of the USSR as a union of sovereign states based upon a network of bilateral associations . |
| 12 | The general election was held on 18 June , and election and examination fever coincided for the first time since 1945 . |
| 13 | For an anxious moment Ace waited for the suit 's air system to cut in . |
| 14 | This particular political failure of the post-war welfare policies , to provide equality and not just the opportunity for individual achievement , was set in its turn against the dislocation that my mother 's 1950s represent : welfarism in one country did not embody the desire people felt for the world that had shaped them . |
| 15 | Ginsberg 's Howl actually came out while Leonard was there , doing for the fifties and sixties generation what Eliot 's The Waste Land did for the twenties and thirties , and not least Ginsberg 's ‘ A Supermarket In California ’ , in which he questioned Lorca 's lonely habits ; as did Lawrence Ferlinghetti 's Picture Of The Gone World . |
| 16 | Such ratios serve to show the very great importance an extension of the waterway network had for the movement of heavy and bulky materials . |
| 17 | Moreover , despite the efforts of Liverpool City Council and Merseyside County Council during the 1970s , no realistic development plans existed for the area . |
| 18 | John 's lamp light lasted for the first few hours of his entombment and from then on he was in total darkness . |
| 19 | Until the past two years Drexel was right that the total return from investing in a diversified portfolio of junk bonds overcompensated for the default rate . |
| 20 | President dos Santos appealed for the UN to stay on for two or three months after the elections . |
| 21 | This accommodation , named " Hudson Flats " , bears witness not only to the enthusiasm with which the late Jimmy Hudson and his wife Mary worked for the provision of annual " Old Folks ' Holidays " , but also to the sum of £72,000 which they raised themselves towards the purchase of this property . |
| 22 | When the meter man came for the last time he spoke of my aunt , and of the many years he had been to the house , so that he felt himself to be almost an old friend . |
| 23 | The figures show that the number of pollution incidents rose for the fifth successive year and have doubled since 1985 . |
| 24 | Penge Urban District Council asked for the electrification of all suburban railways . |
| 25 | Stocky , powerful wing whose father Vernon played for the Springbok soccer team . |
| 26 | Earlier in the month 806 Squadron 's three remaining serviceable Fulmars had been flown from Malta to Egypt via El Adem , each aircraft carrying three aircrew ; the ground party sailed for the same destination in a destroyer . |
| 27 | With this fearsome military instrument at his disposal Henry waited for the invasion . |
| 28 | For example , in his chemistry exam John wrote for the first three answers blank , ether and litmus test . |
| 29 | For Australia , left-arm seamer Whitney returned for the injured Reid . |
| 30 | The pill swapping continued for the next couple of weeks , showing no difference in the population of Xenly . |