Example sentences of "[vb past] [coord] [vb past] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instinct attached my hands to the reins as she accelerated and headed for home with me in tow . |
| 2 | With remarkable skill he identified and presented for selection a group of some of the leading statesmen concerned with their welfare . |
| 3 | I watched her get smaller and smaller , then turned and headed for shore . |
| 4 | She turned and headed for home . |
| 5 | again and again till you sighed and turned for love . |
| 6 | More significant for domestic purposes is s10(4) ( b ) and ( c ) which give the retailer a defence provided : ( i ) that he supplied the goods , offered or agreed to supply them or , as the case may be , exposed or possessed them for supply in the course of carrying on a retail business ; and ( ii ) that , at the time he supplied the goods or offered or agreed to supply them or exposed or possessed them for supply , he neither knew nor had reasonable grounds for believing that the goods failed to comply with the general safety requirement ; or ( c ) that the terms on which he supplied the goods or agreed or offered to supply them or , in the case of goods which he exposed or possessed for supply , the terms on which he intended to supply them ( i ) indicated that the goods were not supplied or to be supplied as new goods ; and ( ii ) provided for , or contemplated , the acquisition of an interest in the goods by the persons supplied or to be supplied . |
| 7 | Destined to take over his father 's cattle station , he quickly defected and headed for Point Cook — the RAAF " Cranwell " — but not before several obstacles , which might have deterred many a lesser lad , had been overcome . |
| 8 | The Earl of Warwick , one of the judges , protested and asked for time to produce charters and other evidence so that ‘ we might still enjoy with quietness the possessions of our ancestors which had bin oute of the Forrest for three hundred and thirty yeares ’ . |
| 9 | He felt like the boy 's father ; he loved and cared for Grégoire as if he were his son . |
| 10 | Dawn brought a kind of truce but , defeated and demoralised , we packed and headed for base . |
| 11 | So he and his rider galloped up a long hill and then down a longer hill and then up another hill and so on without a break for eight exhausting miles , and the more his rider puffed and gasped for breath , the more he enjoyed himself and the faster he went ! |
| 12 | He scrubbed at his face with the handkerchief she offered and gulped for air . |
| 13 | Finally they reached their destination , to find a huge crowd of silent onlookers all standing back a respectful distance and watching in mesmerised fascination as a distraught woman sobbed and screamed for help . |
| 14 | Rogers and Lambert , Killion , Finlayson and Richards lay back and guffawed and waited for Woolley to do something abut it . |
| 15 | When war broke out , the Foreign Office refused him permission to enlist , so he resigned and stood for Parliament . |
| 16 | As she began to choke she kicked and struggled for breath before tumbling down into nowhere . |
| 17 | Rebels slid and scrabbled for hand holds , claw holds , as the district plummeted towards the fringe of the jungle two kilometres below . |
| 18 | The blood poured out from the gash while he groaned and begged for water . |