Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expected to wait a while for a spawning , but within two weeks they surprised me . |
| 2 | The purpose of the trials has been to obtain raw data which must be assembled and evaluated to provide a basis for comparison . |
| 3 | We also sought to provide a link for residents of Murieston to Livingston centre while the Murieston area is still developing , rather than wait for the completion of this housing area before taking action . |
| 4 | The announcement led to informal discussion between the Board 's officers , District representatives and the National WEA but failed to establish a basis for co-operation of provision in either county . |
| 5 | Solicitations for military promotion could become quite pointed if the politician did not act quickly , as the Earl of Marchmont discovered when he failed to secure a promotion for Lieutenant James Wedderburn , whose uncle complained was |
| 6 | That was the shock claim from Blades manager Dave Bassett last night after he failed to find a buyer for the 32-year old-winger . |
| 7 | More fundamentally , many courts failed to find a basis for the first resort approach . |
| 8 | The seller sold one car for £350 but failed to find a purchaser for the other . |
| 9 | A further court case , in which Lothar Neethling from the forensic laboratory , now a lieutenant-general and number three in the South African Police , tried to sue a newspaper for calling him a poisoner , showed Coetzee to be a reliable and accurate witness . |
| 10 | tried to borrow a bike for us so that we could bike round , but when she |
| 11 | During 1990 Hoylake withdrew its bid for BAT , partly because of problems encountered with the US regulatory authorities when it tried to arrange a buyer for BAT 's US insurance business . |
| 12 | Cooke published influential articles in the School and the Teacher and helped to found a museum for London teachers . |
| 13 | In the meantime I tried to find a home for Poppy to go to when ( or if ) we eventually caught her . |
| 14 | He claims that the last shelf time period recorded on a book is highly predictive of future use , and gives a description of a simple method by which such information is examined and analysed to provide a basis for the weeding of stock . |
| 15 | After a short time he asked if he could have a whisky and soda , and when the ingredients were brought tried to pour a drink for the King . |
| 16 | He saw the question of how such contrarious genres as fabliau and romance could co-exist in medieval French literature as a critical problem , and consequently tried to identify a source for a taste which could explain the proliferation and regularization of fabliau , the narrative and comical substance of which he accepted as being ubiquitous . |
| 17 | Michel Perie , the boisterous young Toulon prop whose domination of Pascal Ondarts helped provide a platform for his side 's victory , holds aloft the Championship trophy . |
| 18 | Mr Ramsay promised to give a pound for every one raised by subscription . |
| 19 | They actually tried to have a structure for the organisation that had doctors , nurses , alternative healers and patients with parity at the organisational level , but they kept the front up that it was run by doctors , because that way they would be acknowledged within the discourses of medicine as having equal power to argue . |
| 20 | In today 's attack one of the shot workmen was hit as he tried to make a run for it at Gortree Park where a major housing renovation scheme has been under way since before Christmas . |
| 21 | On March 9 , on the eve of Super Tuesday , Harkin announced the ending of his campaign , but avoided expressing a preference for any of the remaining Democratic candidates . |
| 22 | At its November meeting the Council failed to set a date for the next SAARC summit , originally scheduled for 1989 , after Sri Lanka formally declared its refusal , while Indian troops remained on its soil , to host the meeting as decided at the fourth summit in December 1989 in Islamabad , Pakistan [ for which see p. 36485 ] . |
| 23 | Talks with the Estonians , however , failed to set a date for the start of the troops ' departure . |
| 24 | French policy sought to create a substitute for independence by designating the protectorates of former French Indo-China , and subsequently Cochin China , as associated states within the French Union . |
| 25 | He 'd developed a contempt for men like Morgan and Evans . |
| 26 | Brough [ 1991 ] Crim.L.R. 522 the C.P.S. delayed bringing a charge for a short period so that B was deprived of the possibility of trial in the juvenile court . |
| 27 | I 'd forgotten that was what I 'd picked a Gnat for in the first place It sounded horrible , coming from him . |
| 28 | Shaun 's last years at school had been difficult he 'd even taken a swing at a teacher at one point — and he 'd earned a reputation for the motherless Hammond boys that Wayne had found himself sharing even though he 'd done nothing to earn it . |
| 29 | Then there was another one , outside the church , they 'd made a hole for a man to sit in there , and he used to sell papers . |
| 30 | ‘ I thought he 'd made a bolt for it , ’ said Dalziel . |