Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite what the taxpayer got for the extra money is not readily apparent . |
| 2 | The statutory recognition of auditors ' resignation occurred for the first time in the Companies Act 1976 , prior to which resignation would have constituted a de facto breach of contract . |
| 3 | But when they cast off Penry seemed reassuringly unconcerned , and sang under his breath as the Angharad headed for the turbulent stretch of sea separating Gullholm from the coast . |
| 4 | Worried managers made the decision after the computer crashed for the second time in 10 days . |
| 5 | The figure budgeted for the whole year had been 40,000 million roubles . |
| 6 | There 's even a 100MHz dual-processor penned for the second quarter of next year using Cypress ' promised three-layer , 0.5 CMOS technology , touted at up to 320 MIPS , 162 SPECmarks , 142 SPECfp and 77 MFLOPS . |
| 7 | was a bottle of of whisky from that distillery went for a huge p price at one of the big |
| 8 | ‘ Nine players in that side appeared for the first team later . |
| 9 | The sum of£3 8s 6d was raised in this way , and the practice continued for the next eighty years . |
| 10 | On a wild and windy day , with gusts of rain driving into the side of the crematorium , an Anglican priest waited for the next funeral to commence . |
| 11 | Their friendship continued for the next few days . |
| 12 | Their heyday lasted for the first five years of the Eighties , when they scored the incredible total of 20 consecutive Top 20 hits . |
| 13 | John 's lamp light lasted for the first few hours of his entombment and from then on he was in total darkness . |
| 14 | The fighting continued for a few seconds before they realised that it was no longer dark . |
| 15 | Some of the fans remember it , their memory jogged by the 3p programme which the club reproduced for the last round against Bromsgrove . |
| 16 | Some of the fans remember it , their memory jogged by the 3p programme which the club reproduced for the last round against Bromsgrove . |
| 17 | The headless trunk stood for a long second , the blood fountaining in a gush of scarlet from the raw stump of its neck , before collapsing bonelessly to the mat . |
| 18 | The decapitated head spun like a ball in the air , lips still moving ; his trunk stood for a few seconds in its own fountain of hot red gore before crashing on to the blood-stained ice . |
| 19 | For statistical reasons and because of the ever changing pattern of pedestrian and vehicular movement at treated sites and elsewhere the first Plan argued for an annual ‘ gross ’ target reduction of 60 casualties . |
| 20 | The question asked for the total wage bill and went on : |
| 21 | The Queen asked for a three-month cooling off period . |
| 22 | Van Dyck had a hand in exporting his style to England in the 17th century ; the allure of the full-length formal portrait endured for the following 300 years . |
| 23 | Two days passed , and on Sunday , 16 December , the schooner tried for a second time to get to Fort Davey but was forced back . |
| 24 | On June 12 the UN Security Council renewed for a further six months , until Dec. 15 , 1992 , the mandate of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus ( UNFICYP ) . |
| 25 | British sport began for the first time to embrace commercialism , although the process was cautious and gradual . |
| 26 | In the south , recruiting began for the Irish National Volunteers . |
| 27 | The Legal Services Committee continued in 1992 where it left off in 1991 and in January 1992 representatives of the committee appeared for the third time before the Lord Chancellor 's Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct . |
| 28 | Will last month 's breakdown of the GATT talks do for the 1990s what Smoot-Hawley did for the 1930s ? |
| 29 | A separation appeared for the first time between design and production . |
| 30 | Doubt was cast on Cameron 's results partly by the lack of control data he offered , and , later , after his death , his reputation for scientific integrity was irretrievably damaged by the revelation that much of his experimental work had for a long time been secretly supported by the CIA , including some rather insidious studies of the effects of covertly administered LSD on the behaviour of unsuspecting people . |