Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] 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 | Her angular Norfolk vowels seemed especially suited for goats . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He 'd already lost any respect or hope he 'd once had for Changez . |
| 8 | The other two were good as well — they 'd both passed for Sergeant , stable , fine fellers . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 … ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Elections to the Constituent Assembly , which the Provisional Government had eventually scheduled for November , went ahead . |
| 13 | By summer 1990 , 44 schools had successfully applied for grant maintained status . |
| 14 | He had constantly called for reductions in the burdens of taxation on both corporations and individuals and regularly denounced the federal government for being too big , too meddlesome and too wasteful of the taxpayers ' money . |
| 15 | Sir Robert Carey , Warden of the English Middle March , had been in London visiting the queen , but had prudently arranged for relays of horses to be ready for him between the capital and Edinburgh , so that he could ingratiate himself with the King of Scots by being the first to arrive with the news that he was now King of England also . |
| 16 | We had all gathered for Hamish and Tone 's traditional Ne'erday partyette ; a necessarily quietish affair during which people exchanged tales of drunkenness , broken resolutions and recipes for hangover cures , as well as taking advantage of the opportunity to compare notes regarding blank spots in the memories of any of the assembled penitents . |
| 17 | Poland , Romania and Yugoslavia had all applied for membership as of mid-1991 , while Albania applied for observer status on June 25 , 1991 . |
| 18 | The four judges — Archie Tait , David Reid , Loius Marks , and Ross Devenish — said they had all voted for GBH , and the decision was ‘ inexplicable ’ . |
| 19 | They stared at him , for he had only reported for work half an hour earlier . |
| 20 | Occasionally they would get a little wary and move out of the swim but only to return a few minutes later to the area that they had apparently cleared for spawning . |
| 21 | But she was n't worried about the way the script finished up and had apparently asked for changes herself . |
| 22 | Then we saw that Boniface of Eastbourne had already headed for home , so we turned and started back for our good harbour . |
| 23 | The Formosan Expedition in the early 1870s , the Treaty of Shimonoseki ( 1895 ) and the Boxer Rebellion ( 1900 ) had already secured for Japan substantial political and economic concessions in China . |
| 24 | Duncan had already checked for surveillance equipment . |
| 25 | Gookey , travelling reserve for the British 4 x 100 metres relay team at a meting in Oslo tomorrow , had already left for home . |
| 26 | A bank spokeswoman said one person on the staff had been injured in the explosion but most had already left for Budapest when the bomb went off . |
| 27 | In fact many people had turned in and were asleep , before dark , as if in trance ; others had already started for home , and would be walking all night . |
| 28 | We had already settled for Peru when Terry rang , but the vision he described was far from encouraging : Lima a cauldron of unrest and theft , the hills in the hands of ‘ Sendero , ’ the country on the edge of collapse . |
| 29 | This land of little more than 2m people and 24m sheep , enclosed between China and Russia in an area three times the size of France , had already appealed for emergency food aid to get it through the winter when the worst snows for 50 years hit three provinces in the south-west . |
| 30 | Kohl and the French President François Mitterrand had already appealed for emergency aid when they met in Assmannshausen on June 22 , and on the same day West Germany announced that it had agreed to guarantee a DM5,000 million ( approximately US$2,980 million ) loan to the Soviet Union . ) |