Example sentences of "[vb past] for an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew her limitations better than she knew her worth , and she taught in a private school because it gave her a little more latitude to come and go as she wished — an important point , since she cared for an old mother whom eighty years had made exacting . |
| 2 | It is a remarkable finding from these interviews that of those informants who married before 1918 almost half — and over half if we include those with soldier husbands — lived for an initial period , sometimes brief but often two or more years , with one of their parents before moving into a house of their own . |
| 3 | He asked for an Irish song of love and loss . |
| 4 | On Nov. 8 a UN human rights panel asked for an official explanation why the Oufkir family and the left-wing leader Abraham Serfaty were still imprisoned . |
| 5 | It was probably unconnected , but the superintendent nurse asked for an extra scrubber for the male side , and the temporary appointment was approved . |
| 6 | We asked for an extra day , and that was fine . |
| 7 | Yesterday , Lesley Shand , for Mrs McWilliams , asked for an interim award of £50,000 damages . |
| 8 | Obviously unwilling , he asked for an absurd sum for doing so , but eventually Omar settled with him for a reasonable amount . |
| 9 | According to Kyodo , Zou asked for an early resumption of the 1990-95 loan package . |
| 10 | He asked for an urgent meeting with Colonel Easterhouse . |
| 11 | I contacted the North Devon District Health Authority and asked for an extra-contractual referral to be made for this operation . |
| 12 | When he asked for an artificial leg for his newly amputated right leg he was told not only that he could n't have one , but he 'd also have to give up his existing left false leg , which he 'd had for six years . |
| 13 | The bank asked for an independent appraisal . |
| 14 | All in all it made for an uncomfortable meal , despite the chef 's first-class skills , and Sarella at least was pleased when it was all over and Marc , with deliberately precise timing , pushed his chair back to signal that they could now follow him out . |
| 15 | On the negative side , funerals were becoming so much more secular in outlook , appearance and context that the surviving guilds and fraternities found themselves hard-pressed to provide all that made for an average funeral of the new type ; the rules were being rewritten by a public which no longer wished to perpetuate the simple ritual hitherto provided and which were looking for a pageantry close to that of the great baronial funerals as performed by the College of Arms , a corporation of heralds and part of the Royal Household . |
| 16 | For the client , the advantage was that he could go direct to those various tradesmen who , collectively , could provide all that made for an average funeral . |
| 17 | Balfour 's government introduced an Education Act which provided for an orderly scheme for elementary and secondary education in schools administered by Local Authorities . |
| 18 | It provided for an estimated expenditure of L£597,000 million and revenues of L£210,000 million . |
| 19 | The meeting was prompted by a draft secretarial order , issued by the US Interior Department in July , which provided for an expanded role for the new resident US representative in Belau [ see p. 37885 ] . |
| 20 | In 1978 a new constitution was promulgated which provided for an elaborate reversion to a tribal mode of rule involving an electoral college of eighty members chosen by forty local councils ( ‘ tinkhundla ’ ) , dominated by tribal elements . |
| 21 | It provided for an elected head of state who would appoint a Prime Minister from the party winning a majority in elections to a bicameral parliament comprising a National Assembly and Senate . |
| 22 | He stopped for an early beer at a roadside pub in Surrey , then dropped the car off in its lock-up garage and strolled to a cafe for lunch . |
| 23 | ‘ Go ! ’ she hissed at Ember , but he stopped for an agonizing moment to cover her better . |
| 24 | Former Z-Cars and Softly Softly star Frank Windsor starred in and as Headmaster , written by John Challen and featuring characters he created for an earlier Play for Today slot . |
| 25 | The bar had a headbanging range of Fuller 's beers but I decided I 'd better be in training for the Exhilarator so I opted for an alcohol-free lager , turned my back to the bar and its temptations and scouted for Werewolf . |
| 26 | The ideal should be a circular seat but I felt it would take a considerable amount of timber with a lot of waster so I opted for an hexagonal shape . |
| 27 | The businessmen who last year jostled to fill Mr Collor 's campaign chest now sound like the turkeys who cackled for an early Christmas . |
| 28 | French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas arrived for an official visit on Nov. 22 . |
| 29 | The metal bubbled for an eye-aching moment , and then the door fell in two pieces in the passage beyond . |
| 30 | The search consequently began for an alternative solution . |