Example sentences of "[vb past] for [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SEEDY : Rumpled bed and empty bottles in the borrowed Fulham flat where Mellor and Antonia met for their steamy love sessions |
| 2 | But when the Assembly met for its first session on 5 January 1918 it immediately became clear that a majority of the deputies were hostile to the government and the Assembly was forcibly disbanded . |
| 3 | Ropati pounced for his 13th try of the season nine minutes later and second rower Sonny Nickle scored in the 79th minute to ensure Saints share the League lead with Wigan . |
| 4 | Slaven pounced for his 14th goal of the season , his first since his knee operation , in front of Boro 's jubilant fans . |
| 5 | Sir Anthony 's lips slid over his small teeth in what passed for his public smile , and he accepted , without waiting for their answer . |
| 6 | It was I who cared for her murdered child through his last days . ’ |
| 7 | Their only appeal to Clara lay in their austerity , which sometimes reached a point where it bordered on the dangerously extreme ; there was one sad tale , for instance , of a little girl who cared for her cruel stepmother with unfailing devotion , and who died of pneumonia after running out in her nightgown to look for her stepmother 's cat . |
| 8 | A wife 's vivid account of how she cared for her declining husband . |
| 9 | I have met wonderful doctors who really cared for their old patients , but sometimes the doctors were dismissive and rude , believing that there was little point in wasting valuable resources on the elderly as they were going to die soon anyway . |
| 10 | A DEVOTED son who cared for his paralysed father until he died has received a prestigious European Child of Achievement award at a ceremony in France . |
| 11 | Marjorie ( Joanna Lumley ) , for instance , whom Shirley envied for her academic prospects , ends up with only the freedom of high-class prostitution . |
| 12 | I froze when they first said that in the town where we lived for his firm job . |
| 13 | IT WAS a full year before he made the break — but eventually , on August 21 , 1984 , he went over to one of the more independent local magazines , Cauce , and asked for its leading journalist Monica Gonzalez . |
| 14 | The Committee asked for their good wishes to be sent to her . |
| 15 | I asked for my ham-and-tomato sandwich . |
| 16 | ‘ Ground Reconnaissance From Public Transport ’ is the title of the pamphlet he produced for our last AGM . |
| 17 | There was also an urgency to protect and preserve while it was still possible to do so : the countryside was in change and this seemed to invigorate the various lobbies which fought for their special interest : flora , fauna , landscape , outdoor recreation and protection from development . |
| 18 | However he remains unseen because Sauron can not pierce the shadows he made for his own defence . |
| 19 | Christopher made for his favourite restaurant in his favourite town — Agen . |
| 20 | She will be paid £4.5 million for the follow-up , compared with the £1.5 million she got for her first Disney singing-nun movie . |
| 21 | In it the pope said nothing about homage , and argued temperately against lay investitures , minimizing their importance , and denying that he sought for himself any increase of authority or any diminution of the king 's due power . |
| 22 | There was an ‘ Oof ! ’ of expelled air as the man fell to his knees , his broad shoulders heaving as he strained for his next breath . |
| 23 | It also contained a clause which effectively provided for its continued validity should the Soviet Union be dissolved or reconstituted . |
| 24 | John Tyzack provided for his comfortable retirement in Oxford by selling the business to Henderson Administration , the well-known investment trust . |
| 25 | Many thanks to the Essex teachers for the fine tea they provided for us this meeting . |
| 26 | The banister of the back staircase has the same pattern as the glazing bars of a glass-fronted cabinet Lutyens designed for his own house . |
| 27 | By contrast , two soldiers and a Timorese policeman had on June 1 received prison sentences ranging from eight to 17 months , while on June 6 two army officers , the last of 10 charged for their direct involvement in the massacre , had received sentences of one year and eight months respectively . |
| 28 | The next day we landed at Mackay and re-fuelled for our last leg . |
| 29 | His name was Klaus Fuchs and the penalty he incurred for his epoch-making betrayal of atomic secrets was already paid , after less than ten years in prison . |
| 30 | The first house he built for his own occupation was a stopgap , put up to live in until something more suitable was acquired . |