Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early this century jute sacks became widely used for home distribution although the export of cement still continued in battels and later in steel drums . |
| 2 | In this action Leftwich was well ahead of his time , as Norwegian ice later became widely used for refrigeration during the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | A characteristic punk head by Tony Bevan ( lot 83 ) made £4,200 ( $6,300 ; est. £3,000–4,000 ) while a rather low-key landscape by John Keane ( lot 85 ) sold below estimate for £2,000 ( $3,000 ) . |
| 4 | She could hear cars and lorries swooshing past and tried desperately to call for help but she had no breath . |
| 5 | Masha and I found further cause for depression as , walking in search of a tube station , we came to a major intersection , a roundabout of relentless , screeching vehicles , three and four abreast : for in the centre , on the small concrete island , we saw a man lying on his side . |
| 6 | As Frederick 's policies turned into those of Bismarck 's Kulturkampf , the Catholic Kaszubians found further cause for alarm . |
| 7 | ‘ We 'd better go for help ! ’ she cried . |
| 8 | I think I 'd better go for Dersingham and you 'd better start keeping tabs on Hereward . |
| 9 | Her angular Norfolk vowels seemed especially suited for goats . |
| 10 | there were five red and gold crackers on the starched , white cloth and all the presents were ready in the old pillowcases they 'd all used for years at Christmas . |
| 11 | At 4 pm the following afternoon he awoke and came downstairs asking for breakfast ! |
| 12 | Big Stan , as he likes to call himself , is a retired physical education teacher and Langbaurgh district councillor who in the 1950s played outside left for Shildon , Redcar Albion and once or twice Darlington . |
| 13 | He hated the room he 'd been given as his own , with the picture of Tony Greig that someone had taken from his room in Primrose Cottage and pinned up on the wall , and the pictures of Greg Chappell , who 'd once played for Somerset , and Brian Close . |
| 14 | He 'd already lost any respect or hope he 'd once had for Changez . |
| 15 | The other two were good as well — they 'd both passed for Sergeant , stable , fine fellers . |
| 16 | ‘ Leith , ’ he said , but his look was no warmer , no less arrogant than it had been all morning , ‘ you do n't … ’ he went on , and seemed slightly stuck for words . |
| 17 | And when Travis seemed absolutely stumped for words , she could do no other than fill what would have been an awkward silence with , ‘ I could probably make the lasagne go three ways if … ’ |
| 18 | In the same year , it became harder to re-qualify for unemployment benefit once entitlement had been exhausted . |
| 19 | But Mr Sutherland revealed further plans for Seymour Street to revert to its original two-way traffic configuration , with a grassed central reservation , and an identical ‘ Georgian ’ terrace built opposite . |
| 20 | Franca said , ‘ Yes , yes , ’ and ran into the other room and started frantically looking for pen and paper . |
| 21 | We grew together struggling for supremacy like a wisteria — two trunks from one root — twining tortuously round each other 's faults and failings and culminating in the glorious flowers of two fine sons and a deep and immovable friendship . |
| 22 | None saw further cause for concern . |
| 23 | The base of a garden shed mainly used for storage can be supported on a number of paving slabs , but a workshop , which may house heavy machinery , needs a good firm base . |
| 24 | He changed course five degrees and looked aft to check for squalls . |
| 25 | Morthen slashed through the bindings of Tallis 's cloak , stripped the woman as she lay there gasping for breath and life , mind awhirl with confused thoughts , with loss , with fear … with need . |
| 26 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
| 27 | When Hugh 's men had lifted Aldhelm 's body on to the litter , and set off down the path with it towards the Foregate , Tutilo fell in behind the sorry little procession like a mourner , and went silently step for step with them , his eyes still upon the shrouded body . |
| 28 | Nell had said she would meet me this Sunday morning in the coffee shop in the Great Hall , and had told me that the crews often went there to wait for train time . |
| 29 | " When he went upstairs to change for dinner , Lady Agatha and Fidelma looked at each other . " |
| 30 | She bought little treats for princes Wills and Harry and — always a tell-tale sign — paid more attention to her appearance . |