Example sentences of "[vb past] for the [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently Paige 's nerves were stretched as tight as a drum by the time they stopped for the night on the banks of one of the streams they had waded through . |
| 2 | Naturally Terry had hard-line views on all this , and as we changed for the show on that charged night he proclaimed them to the entire cast , as if he were addressing a meeting . |
| 3 | For the rest of the first circuit Run And Skip and Dawn Run , both regular frontrunners , vied for the lead on the fast ground , and their duel took them well clear of the rest of the field . |
| 4 | Aghredien , who played for SARU and is classified as coloured ( his father was Malayan and his mother Norwegian ) , has been working hand in hand with Bill Cunningham — a back-row forward , who played for the Springboks on their 1959 internal tour — to develop rugby in townships around Port Elizabeth for nearly two decades . |
| 5 | Frank was a local boy from Camberley in Surrey who signed for the Palace on his 17th birthday in June 1931 after having caught the eye of our then Manager , Mr Jack Tresadern . |
| 6 | Similarly , in an 1894 speech , Millicent Fawcett pressed for the vote on the grounds that she ‘ wished to strengthen true womanliness in women , and because I want to see the womanly and domestic side of things weigh more and count for more in all public concerns ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Michael ran a cab and he worked for the bookies on the side . |
| 8 | She said he worked for the fund on a voluntary basis , adding : ‘ It had nothing to do with Nalgo . |
| 9 | We only broke for the night on the promise of a further meeting next day together with social security officials . |
| 10 | Leonora contemplated argument , abandoned it , and , without taking the hand , got up and started for the stairs on leaden feet , full of foreboding about the night ahead . |
| 11 | Dave Rogers went for broke … went for the line on his own and made it … a great effort but Coventry held on to win by thirty four points to fifteen … |
| 12 | His hand reached for the knife on his belt . |
| 13 | I shimmied shivering to the bedsit , slotted another shilling in the gas fire and reached for the knob on the third drawer of the tallboy . |
| 14 | ‘ Of course , ’ Kegan said and reached for the intercom on his desk . |
| 15 | The eyebrow quirked further , but fitzAlan merely rose to his feet and reached for the pack on the floor beside the bed . |
| 16 | Carson reached for the button on his desk . |
| 17 | Mr Hussein appeared for the dedication on a white horse , a traditional symbol of virility and purity that is linked to Ali , the grandson of the Prophet . |
| 18 | I learnt that Roy Hattersley and Gwyneth Dunwoody , who spoke for the Opposition on health , had claimed at Labour 's morning press conference that they had a ‘ leaked ’ copy of a secret Health Department report planning the privatization of the service . |
| 19 | Formed at Munsingen , it left for the front on 16 February 1945 — far too late for Vlasov 's dream to have a chance of fulfillment , and two weeks after the Wehrmacht officially cast KONR adrift as no longer part of the German armed forces . |
| 20 | Serious , and reluctant , she pushed his hand away , and waited for the kisses on the cheek allowed within the code . |