Example sentences of "[vb past] for [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is actually the third Aldabra tortoise imported for the governor 's garden , each of his predecessors , however , lived for about a century . |
| 2 | I saw , and I have had in actual fact , recourse to actually use that service over there , and it 's rather interesting if one can t to say that er in the particular village which I er represent , they actually came up , when I asked a certain question , they gave me a , a , far more than what I actually asked for at the time , but found out who the first village constable was , and I think myself that er , that service over there , it deserves every praise it gets heaped on it . |
| 3 | It recommended the adoption of the procedure asked for in the Institute 's Memorial , which he had helped to organize , and the substitution of moderate passages , in place of his forthright statements , only tended to give the Report the appearance of a more impartial document . |
| 4 | This was £80,000 in excess of the loan asked for in the application in its unaltered form . |
| 5 | We were delighted to be on land again , and while the men looked for a river or a lake , I walked for about a kilometre away from the beach . |
| 6 | The rival patentees quarrelled for over a decade , taking the fight to Parliament in 1624 . |
| 7 | But the rulebook provision identifies branch administration officers , which I called for in the motion . |
| 8 | However that may be , we are satisfied that the plain natural meaning of section 1(1) was that contended for by the Attorney-General . |
| 9 | Ten years ago , if you asked any tennis player what he looked for in a court , you would probably get 10 different answers . |
| 10 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that the majority of my constituents believe that what they voted for in the referendum on Europe was a single market , not a single currency ? |
| 11 | Anyway , 'e spoke for about an 'our and at the end of it 'e asked for people to come forward and testify that they were saved . |
| 12 | Starting at Chester on Sunday , McGuigan will scuttle through Britain 's forests in his Vauxhall Nova for four days , chasing away the thought that he may lose every penny he battled for in the ring if his appeal against £450,000 libel damages plus legal costs fails . |
| 13 | It lasted for about a fortnight , that , did n't it . |
| 14 | In Scotland such discipline continued for over a century after it had been abandoned in England , and spanned a period of exceptionally rapid economic development and social change . |
| 15 | Little wonder it is acclaimed in song and story and longed for by the expatriate Scot ! |
| 16 | ( The one you waited for until the end ) . |
| 17 | She was afraid he would ask her about herself and to forestall this she asked him to tell her about his training and what he hoped for in the future . |
| 18 | The rules would normally specify that the completion accounts are to be prepared in accordance with : ( a ) generally accepted accounting practices or the statements of standard accounting practice ( SSAPs ) in order to give a true and fair view ; ( b ) the same accounting practices as used consistently in previous accounts of the business , normally over a period of several years ; ( c ) specific accounting rules legislated for in the sale agreement . |
| 19 | Yes , was it because you think that , they , that 's what they had for in the house |