Example sentences of "[vb past] for the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Van Dyck had a hand in exporting his style to England in the 17th century ; the allure of the full-length formal portrait endured for the following 300 years . |
| 2 | Life magazine put him on the cover and that single photograph of Manson , with his evil , hypnotic stare , became for the hysterical mass media , the face of a violent , drug-crazed substrata of society : the monster hidden in the heart of every hippie and longhaired supporter of a culture which seemed certain to encompass an increasing section of youth and bandwagonners . |
| 3 | It probably failed for the Mixed Fours were re-introduced as a trial in 1960 and reintroduced yet again in 1974 largely on the initiative of Valerie Wormwald the then Ladies ' Captain . |
| 4 | Blue eyeshadow , much reviled for the past five years , is back at Chanel , Lancôme and Rubinstein and has never been out at Lauder — Mrs Lauder is a firm believer in the power of blue . |
| 5 | The share of income paid in taxes was more or less proportional to income for most families ( about 20–5 per cent of income ) and then rose for the top 10 per cent of highest income earners . |
| 6 | She headed for the outsize black car that was parked opposite . |
| 7 | Determined not to re-enter blind institution life , I headed for the nearby technical college who would n't have me either . |
| 8 | As they parked and headed for the open front door , a smiling woman in a dusky pink two-piece and with her silver hair caught back in a chignon appeared to welcome them . |
| 9 | Entire neighbourhoods headed for the unexpected one-way potlatch . |
| 10 | Ten teams of five vied for the coveted Amicable mugs . |
| 11 | I developed so much skill that I could put together a 50 or 60 break and when I moved to York I played for the local Conservative club and reached the final of the York and District competition . |
| 12 | Jack was a native of Crook in County Durham and played for the local amateur side as a junior before signing for Newcastle at the age of 17 . |
| 13 | Before the building of roads , it was peripheral and resembled that practised for the previous 350 years . |
| 14 | In the south , recruiting began for the Irish National Volunteers . |
| 15 | The U.K. event is only part of the Glenlivet European Trophy , which began for the other European branches of Seagram in 1988 . |
| 16 | Mean increases ( rCBF equivalents : ml per 100 g per min ) in Broca 's area ( left BA44 ) and in the left supramarginal gyrus ( left BA 40 ) observed for the phonological short-term memory task ( M ) and the rhyming task ( R ) compared with their control tasks . |
| 17 | When two Whigs and one Tory stood for Hampshire in 1705 , only 201 out of 3,517 freeholders voting split their votes ( 5.7 per cent ) , whilst 724 plumped for the single Tory candidate . |
| 18 | One Y6 thought vaguely about inviting Michael Jackson but finally plumped for the local third-division full-back who lived just down the road . |
| 19 | That leaves mothers , children and older people behind in the mad scramble for the doors when the bus arrives , to stand packed together jolted and elbowed for the long slow journeys . |
| 20 | In the 1940s , he worked for the Northern Whig and then for the Intelligence Corps and the Foreign Office . |
| 21 | Well I worked for the past two year really |
| 22 | Tom , who worked for the British Caprotti poppet valve-gear manufacturers , Associated Locomotive Equipment Ltd , was instrumental , not only in the original design of 71000 , but also in the rebuilt carried out by the Trust . |
| 23 | In fact , I went for the entire two months without seeing anyone . |
| 24 | He was so tall and masculine that he probably went for the dainty feminine types . |
| 25 | The national data computed for Japan ( 1979–1980 ) and that combined for the German Democratic Republic ( GDR ) and Hungary ( 1976–80 ) show minimum risks of a still birth at the second birth order for women aged 25–44 years . |
| 26 | Instead , people either reached for the mediaeval Holy Roman Empire as a model , which had been constituted quite differently and which was , as a result , very misleading in a number of different ways , or , hardly less disastrously , for the murky concept of the ‘ Volk ’ . |
| 27 | No doubt the privies , there were two of them , were much appreciated by the tenants , but one wonders how they managed for the previous two or three years . |
| 28 | He looked for the other two aircraft . |
| 29 | These statements spoke for the whole Unionist party in their vigorous tone , in the denial that Unionists were responsible for the state of things , and in the laying of blame on the Nationalists . |
| 30 | Yesterday 's newspaper columns on the election were devoted to Mr Dinkins ' promises to defend Jewish interests in the same way that Mayor Ed Koch did for the past 12 years . |