Example sentences of "[vb past] for [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet other Douglas robber barons continued to indulge in their own intrigues against king and country , in the ‘ almost aimless treachery ’ , as Andrew Lang describes it , which ‘ endured for centuries from the reign of David II to that of James VI ’ . |
| 2 | The anti-Dickson camp chortled for hours in the bar about how the boy ‘ spat the dummy ’ . |
| 3 | When the Buddha lay dying , his devoted attendant Ananda asked for instructions about the Sangha , the Order of Monks . |
| 4 | At the station he asked for directions to the industrial estate , and walked it in a quarter of an hour . |
| 5 | Wandering from house to house I asked for directions to the ruins of the palace . |
| 6 | Thank you Chairman , last environment committee er , you asked for updates on the position of the service , these are the last years I have managed to inspect the reports the service . |
| 7 | The RAC removed 89 parts from the stack and asked for replacements from the spares stock . |
| 8 | The conditions were deliberately vague and even asked for suggestions regarding the siting of Westminster Bridge , although some work had already been carried out towards rebuilding the bridge on its existing site . |
| 9 | YOU asked for comments on the new proposals for points scoring . |
| 10 | Four times Rab arose for visits to the closet : endured the smell , the cold , the rats , the protest of his tortured anus . |
| 11 | Mr Brown argued for changes to the tax system so that it assisted people who undertook training , and for new incentives for companies which upgraded staff skills . |
| 12 | An agreement between BT and Mercury provided for interconnections between the two systems . |
| 13 | As Mr Major posed for photographers on the steps of 10 Downing Street yesterday with Rebecca Stephens , he spotted a party of schoolchildren . |
| 14 | They posed for photographers at the star-studded show , giving the lie to rumours they had been separated for several weeks . |
| 15 | The Italian team 's French driver Jean Alesi posed for photographers in the new model but was unable to demonstrate the lightweight 644-B 's abilities at the car 's unveiling as it had broken down on Tuesday before it could be taken on a test run . |
| 16 | Jessica , a petite blonde with the voice of an angel , was most kind , considerate and friendly ; we posed for photos with the director and announcer . |
| 17 | They swam for centuries in the sea below the cliffs , until the ringing of the first Christian bell changed them back into children and they drowned . |
| 18 | A new Gang of Four ( or five or six ) headed by Li Peng would be arrested and tried for crimes against the people . |
| 19 | The school was divided into Upper and Lower boys , and the Lower boys in each house fagged for members of the Library : they cooked their tea , ran errands for them , being sent perhaps as far as Windsor to fetch a cake from Fuller 's teashop , and they had to come at once when someone in the Library shouted " Boy ! " , the last arrival being given the job . |
| 20 | I could make no further headway with the landlord so I made enquiries amongst the other customers : a beggar who whined for alms inside the doorway and a greasy-haired knave , but they only repeated what the landlord had said . |
| 21 | Guessing what might greet her in the canteen , she opted for sandwiches in the laboratory , but because today no one else on the team was prepared to forgo his lunch-hour proper she was on her own until she was interrupted . |
| 22 | Young Zulfiqar studied for O-levels at the Doon school in Dehra Dun , a progressive public school in the Himalayan foothills , and completed his education at Millfield . |
| 23 | The all-London clash between Spurs and Chelsea at White Hart Lane saw Chelsea take the lead through Dury in the twentieth minute , and five minutes before the break , Lineker equalised for Spurs from the penalty spot ; one one , the final score line . |
| 24 | Tottenham Hotspur who put Oxford United out of the F A Cup in the fourth round , found life difficult at Fratton Park where Portsmouth forgot their disappointing League form and led Spurs by a Chamberlain goal after forty one minutes , but Gascoigne who tormented Oxford in the last round , equalised for Spurs in the sixty second minutes , and seven minutes from time , that man Gascoigne popped up with a winner . |
| 25 | People who do n't know we drove for miles in the rain so that it might reach them in time . ’ |
| 26 | Like Julian , who tells us that she wrestled for years with the problem of sin , Luther and St Teresa both struggled for some twenty years with a paralysing sense of their own sinfulness . |
| 27 | The youngsters also dug for dinosaurs during the RockWATCH event on Saltburn beach , Cleveland . |
| 28 | Eventually a senior official arrived for talks with the police , somewhat annoyed that he had n't been told of the attempt to list the building . |
| 29 | The 1ft. 11½ins. gauge Llanberis Lake Railway opened for passengers in the summer of 1971 and this year , it celebrates its 21st birthday on Sunday , June 14 , and all are invited ! |
| 30 | We walked for hours about the streets of Notting Hill and talked and talked . |