Example sentences of "[vb past] for the [noun sg] [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 | Peter Haining and Mike Harris qualified for the final through the heats . |
| 16 | Among his patrons was Lord Conway , a wealthy Irish peer whose agent he became for the purchase of rare books in London . |
| 17 | As one they plunged for the hole in the hedge . |
| 18 | Beta versions are out next quarter with general availability slated for the beginning of next year . |
| 19 | The servers will be followed by 75MHz Indigo boxes , also slated for the end of 1993 . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ No government which cared for the education of all our children would conceivably follow such corrupt priorities as this one . ’ |
| 23 | She did have a job with the BBC and someone cared for the child in the day . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The Manchester United manager swooped for the Frenchman in a sensational bid to solve his goal-scoring problems after failing to lure England 's David Hirst from Sheffield Wednesday for £3.5 million . |
| 26 | When this second marriage broke down in 1963 , Simenon was already having an affair with another maid , Teresa Sburelin , with whom he lived for the rest of his life . |
| 27 | If you asked for the evidence of accountability , there were no measures . |
| 28 | In spring 1988 Johnson asked for the case to be adjourned so that LGCM could move its office without appearing to have been thrown out . |
| 29 | The plaintiff asked for the whole of the profits on the brassieres but the defendant said that the account of profits should only be based on the profit resulting from the wrongful use of the confidential information ; that is , the profit relating to the parts of the brassieres incorporating the confidential information . |
| 30 | Mr Morris , whose own house suffered relatively little damage , said he realised the potential danger early on Thursday evening when he asked for the river to be kept clear of debris before the level grew too high . |