Example sentences of "[coord] [noun prp] [vb past] for the " in BNC.

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1 Sanderson Townsend & Gilbert and Healey & Baker acted for the vendor , while Lowther Scott Harden acted for Southlands .
2 Neither Willaert nor Rore composed for the keyboard though their works were often published in lute or keyboard transcription .
3 Currently concentrating on Sparc-based hardware , Lucid has an agreement with NCR Corp that will see its compiler technology and Energize converted for the Intel 80486 under Unix System V.4 and Santa Cruz Unix : compilers have already been implemented for the IBM Corp Rios chip , and Lucid has its eye on Hewlett-Packard Co 's Precision Architecture RISC .
4 Julio Salinas and Michel scored for the Spaniards , while both Hungary 's goals came from Pinter .
5 When he and Adenauer met for the first time , de Gaulle records , ‘ We discussed Europe at length .
6 The show was The Henderson Kids and Kylie auditioned for the part of Charlotte Kernow — known as Char — in a tomboy role that was to prove remarkably similar to the character that would one day transform her into a superstar .
7 The Lady 's Not For Burning by Christopher Fry was to be directed by John Gielgud at the Globe in May 1949 and Richard auditioned for the ‘ orphaned clerk ’ .
8 Men like Jeremiah and Ezekiel looked for the day when God would forge a new covenant , or agreement , with men .
9 They finished filling the sugar bowls and Catriona left for the afternoon .
10 His hunched figure padded across to the desk in the bay and Swod gestured for the police officer to sit down .
11 Corinth sent help to Potidaia , the Athenians sent a besieging force , and so Corinth and Athens clashed for the second time .
12 Padraig Flynn , the Irish Environment Minister , called for the closure of the nuclear reprocessing plant at Sellafield , on the north-west coast of England , and Norway , Sweden and Denmark called for the plans for another such plant at Dounreay in Scotland be cancelled .
13 And just six hours after Chris and Heather met for the first time they had decided to get married .
14 Disappointingly for the authorities , Moscow and Leningrad voted for the ‘ renewed federation ’ by tiny majorities ; in Gorbachev 's own district in Moscow 375 voted against the proposition and 376 in favour , the only uncertainty being whether the General Secretary or his spouse had cast the decisive ballot .
15 ND argued for more free-market economic policies and deep cuts in government spending , while Pasok and Synaspismos called for the preservation of welfare provisions and for a higher productivity in the public sector .
16 The Arbuthnots hunted on odd days with the Meath and Tom lived for the sport .
17 Forshaw and Abercrombie opted for the third .
18 While leaders of all the main political parties expressed their condemnation of the March 31 violence , David Waddington , the Home Secretary , asserted on April 1 that certain Labour MPs who advocated non-payment must bear some of the blame for the events of the previous day , and Patten called for the Labour whip to be withdrawn from them .
19 This is reflected in the significant interaction between FSE and SAM found for the change in external locus of control ( χ 2 =8.0 , df=1 ; p=0.005 ) .
20 It was day three when I started to haemorrhage and Lee cried for the first time since his brief squawk at the moment of birth .
21 In the Persian Wars , however , the Boiotian League had evidently not ordered a general policy , because Plataia and Thespiai fought for the Greeks whereas Thebes medised , a stain she was never to wipe out .
22 Gajewski questioned Pons about this and Pons apologised for the lawyer 's insinuation , both to Gajewski and to Jones on 21 February .
23 In 1963 Miles and Haynes met for the first time , in Edinburgh .
24 When Marcus , Tony , Jason and Darren dashed for the next bus , the driver did n't know where he was supposed to take them .
25 Following a meeting on May 19 with Chinese Premier Li Peng , both India and China called for the peaceful resolution of their long-running border dispute [ for December 1991 talks see p. 38683 ] .
26 It would become fiery and restless , something I noticed when Bowyer and Southgate left for the hunt .
27 Then , closing all , the chains of the bridge rattled evenly through their pulleys , and Parfois withdrew for the night into its impregnable walls .
28 In the same year , Percy Shelley and Edward Williams drowned when the Don Juan sank in the Bay of Spezia , and Clairmont cared for the widows in the first few weeks .
29 It so happened that the Missions to the Adult Deaf and Dumb of Ireland were seeking a missionary , and Maginn applied for the position .
30 There was more in this vein as they turned right , and Mungo realized for the first time that they were actually heading into the forest .
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