Example sentences of "[vb past] for the [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 She made for the stand where her umbrella was kept .
2 Both sides seemed satisfied and although it is unlikely that a two-tier Champagne classification would have been workable in the long term , it sufficed for the present although it was still being debated in the Senate when war broke out three years later .
3 Neither Willaert nor Rore composed for the keyboard though their works were often published in lute or keyboard transcription .
4 The tide turned for the French when , under the inspired leadership of Joan of Arc , Charles was taken to Reims to be crowned king in the cathedral in 1429 .
5 " Presumably he telephoned for the mechanic before he left . "
6 I paid for the taxi because he had no change .
7 Although programs like DO-IT existed for the PC before anything appeared for the Macintosh it and its close cousins cost several thousand pounds .
8 Rosa in the chapel with her head bent over her hands , her legs stiff from kneeling , thought , We will go away together , somewhere different from here , to Africa , he said , he wanted to go there , and I will take care of him , we are like each other , we are both … and she hunted for the word because she did not want to use the word ‘ misfit ’ , and found ‘ changeling ’ .
9 and I worked for the council so he spoke to me one day and he said , Will you cut the roads with a tractor and a mower .
10 A few weeks later he scored the first of three hat-tricks he hit for the Palace when we toppled his former club , Watford , by 4–1 at Vicarage Road .
11 But I think if you went for the figure as proposed by the H B F , you would be going actively against the regeneration statutory which is the erm the government 's policy .
12 Erm which is why I went for the downstairs cos I had a choice of either .
13 He reached for the CV while Catherine Crane busied herself systematically with her papers .
14 I always looked for the kitemark when I was buying things .
15 Eileen Desmond TD and Deputy Murphy , both of the Labour Party , spoke for the project as did Councillor Joe Sherlock of the Workers ' Party .
16 BRITAIN 'S loudest man revealed yesterday that he competed for the title after neighbours complained about his singing in the bath .
17 She dived for the companionway as he swung round , glowering .
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