Example sentences of "[vb past] for the [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Portillo , in whom Nigel Lawson saw ‘ something quite out of the ordinary ’ , is the son of a Spanish law professor who fought for the republicans in the Spanish civil war and a left of centre Scottish school teacher . |
| 4 | At the hearing Randolph 's counsel , Mr Fearnley-Whittingstall QC ( a well-known right-wing lawyer , who also acted for the defendants in the Spectator libel case ) , got up and delivered a long and passionate address about the iniquity of what had happened . |
| 5 | The bid was expected this week or next , with finance arranged through Manufacturers Hanover and Charterhouse , which acted for the brothers in the past . |
| 6 | ‘ He worked for the Germans in the war . |
| 7 | Early in their walk she had handed him the usual tenpenny piece , and now she heard a faint tinkle and watched while he stuck his candle in the socket , and reached for the matches in their brass holder . |
| 8 | With a dozen spills to hand , I reached for the matches in my pouch . |
| 9 | But many of the Andalucian farm workers who voted for the Socialists in 1982 and 1986 are turning to Mr Pacheco 's party to voice their discontent . |
| 10 | Mr Louis Blom-Cooper QC appeared for the applicants in that case . |
| 11 | Conservatives have decided to do for the freedom fighters what the American left of the '30s did for the Communists in Spain . |
| 12 | That meant that Jews , Romans , Egyptians , Phoenicians , Babylonians and even the Indians ( Asoka 's edicts ) entered Greek literature with contributions of their own : what Xanthus did for the Lydians in the fifth century B.C. became a routine performance . |
| 13 | We were nearing the camp , so I aimed for the ruts in the track and put my foot down . |
| 14 | The ‘ special areas ’ legislation of the prewar national coalition government stemmed partly from a series of unsigned articles — ‘ Places without a Future ’ — which he wrote for The Times in 1934 . |
| 15 | Militarisation worked for the Nazis as it had for the Prussians in that it helped control large numbers of people , allowed a cheap and easy growth of populist emotion and nationalist identity and became the mainspring of industry by providing demand . |
| 16 | Once inside he groped for the sheets in his pocket . |