Example sentences of "[vb past] for the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By then , however , such was the devastation of churches and church lands that although the York clergy granted a tenth , which was to be collected in two instalments during 1317 ( a delay eloquent of their difficulties ) , they successfully insisted on a revised valuation of their livings : instead of the tenth being levied on the 1291 valor , compiled before the Scottish war began , it was to be calculated according to the true current valuation of livings , a reduced level which endured for the rest of the Middle Ages . |
| 2 | The third narrative tells how George Meredith modelled for the corpse in the painting and how his wife then ran away with the painter ( see also the sonnets in Meredith 's Modern Love ) . |
| 3 | In a sudden blur of motion , he leapt away from Grant and sprinted for the cover of the trees . |
| 4 | Consequently , our analysis used statistical methods appropriated for the analysis of data with unobserved effects ( our data comprised of a large number of daily histories , in the late 1980's which had been previously collected ) . |
| 5 | When the appellant received notice of the order , he applied for the order to be set aside on the grounds that he had no notice of the proceedings and had nothing to do with it . |
| 6 | Capricorn applied for the service of the writ to be set aside on the ground that the London address did not consitute a place of business in Great Britain or that if service was good , Capricorn sought a stay on the ground of lis alibi pendens in Ohio . |
| 7 | As soon as Reunification came about , Schiller applied for the return of his family 's estates . |
| 8 | This innovation is especially significant as it suggests that Marx did not believe there was necessarily one set scheme of evolution which applied for the whole of mankind , the view which was held implicitly by most of Marx 's contemporaries . |
| 9 | In 1959 he applied for the headship of another minor public school , which had the disadvantage of being in Northumberland . |
| 10 | In 1923 Van Der Meulen applied for the post of consul there and was selected for a three-year training in Arabic and Islam by the great Leiden Arabist , Snouck Hurgronje . |
| 11 | In 1969 , I applied for the post of Senior Lecturer at the new University of Lancaster , in the north of England ( about 240 miles north west of London ) . |
| 12 | He applied for the job at Hoggatt 's , of course , and was runner-up to Howarth . " |
| 13 | She contends that the tenant ceased to be a statutory tenant for the purposes of the subsection when the possession order was made in the county court or , alternatively , when the possession order took effect or , alternatively , when her client applied for the warrant of execution . |
| 14 | His future career then seemed uncertain : he qualified for the bar at the Inner Temple , ran a hostel for disadvantaged boys , Edghill House , Sydenham ( 1913–15 ) , and then began schoolmastering at Strand School , Brixton . |
| 15 | The Indians , who qualified for the finals after a last-gasp win over West Indies in the final qualifying match , were never on course to match Australia 's 233 for 5 , the feature of which was an innings of 73 from Dean Jones , recalled after surprisingly being omitted from the previous match . |
| 16 | Peter Haining and Mike Harris qualified for the final through the heats . |
| 17 | These Diploma holders , together with a further four members who qualified for the FSD under the Lombard Scheme , bring the total number of FSD holders to 387 worldwide . |
| 18 | CARL PREAN , the English No 1 , secured four wins as England qualified for the semi-finals of the men 's team event with a 4–1 defeat of Holland at the European Championships in Stuttgart last night . |
| 19 | Among his patrons was Lord Conway , a wealthy Irish peer whose agent he became for the purchase of rare books in London . |
| 20 | However , assuming that it is and that Winchester became for the purposes of the Act of 1986 a member of Lautro , then the assumption does not lead to any relevant conclusion . |
| 21 | As one they plunged for the hole in the hedge . |
| 22 | John was full of invention , always making up steps and sequences which he called by odd names : for instance a stamping step he called ‘ Sherman tanks ’ , which he devised for the zephyrs in Primavera and used again for the unicorns in Harlequin in April . |
| 23 | Beta versions are out next quarter with general availability slated for the beginning of next year . |
| 24 | The servers will be followed by 75MHz Indigo boxes , also slated for the end of 1993 . |
| 25 | Solbourne Computer Inc , Longmont , Colorado , plans to deliver versions of its symmetric multi-processing ( SMP ) Sparc server architecture with a least 20 CPUs by the time Sun Microsystems Inc manages to wheel out its own 20-way SparcCenter 2000 slated for the end of next year ( UX No 411 ) . |
| 26 | In the same year , Percy Shelley and Edward Williams drowned when the Don Juan sank in the Bay of Spezia , and Clairmont cared for the widows in the first few weeks . |
| 27 | Well , there was n't much Maureen could do about this injury , but the wound did heal up nicely and she cared for the bird for over a year . |
| 28 | ‘ No government which cared for the education of all our children would conceivably follow such corrupt priorities as this one . ’ |
| 29 | She did have a job with the BBC and someone cared for the child in the day . |
| 30 | And if you found that you had entered the company of players , of actors , of those descended from strolling vagabonds and historically always noted and envied for the looseness of their morals , then all your Christmases came at once . |