Example sentences of "[vb past] for [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is noteworthy that more than half did equivalent or higher level courses than those they applied for at the institutions we covered . |
| 2 | After nearly perishing on the moors , she is taken in and cared for by the Reverend St John Rivers and his sisters Mary and Diana . |
| 3 | He is actually the third Aldabra tortoise imported for the governor 's garden , each of his predecessors , however , lived for about a century . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Wigs were out of the question because of the cost , and most of the changes John asked for in the designs were for simplicity in making and comfort in wearing . |
| 7 | This was £80,000 in excess of the loan asked for in the application in its unaltered form . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The rival patentees quarrelled for over a decade , taking the fight to Parliament in 1624 . |
| 10 | In Brewster ( 1979 ) 69 Cr App R 375 ( CA ) , an insurance agent was guilty of theft of the premiums because the money had to be handed over to the companies he worked for under the terms of his contract . |
| 11 | But the rulebook provision identifies branch administration officers , which I called for in the motion . |
| 12 | CAMERAMAN Sean Colborn got more than he bargained for at a police auction — he bought a do-it-yourself BURGLARY kit . |
| 13 | However that may be , we are satisfied that the plain natural meaning of section 1(1) was that contended for by the Attorney-General . |
| 14 | The analysis which follows in the succeeding five chapters attempts to show that they are irksome ; and indeed many are immovable without other deep-seated changes in society ; and that these can not be advocated or struggled for on the grounds of soil conservation alone . |
| 15 | Ten years ago , if you asked any tennis player what he looked for in a court , you would probably get 10 different answers . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It lasted for about a fortnight , that , did n't it . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Little wonder it is acclaimed in song and story and longed for by the expatriate Scot ! |
| 22 | ( The one you waited for until the end ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Yes , was it because you think that , they , that 's what they had for in the house |
| 26 | Without wanting to appear too sanguine , and without trivializing the persistent phenomenon of right-wing extremism and the need to maintain vigilance against it , the full realization of the responsibility which Hitler bears for the untold agonies suffered by millions has so discredited everything he stood for in the eyes of sane persons everywhere that , except in circumstances beyond the scope of our realistic imagination , it is difficult to see that there could be a resurrection or a new variant of the once-mighty ‘ Hitler myth ’ , with its power to capture the imagination of millions . |