Example sentences of "[det] [pron] [vb past] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I repeat that if one adds to that the £40 million from the foundation , the £20 million a year for football and the £1 million that I found for the champion coaching scheme , it is clear that our commitment to sport is greater than anyone 's . |
| 2 | The rest had left finance , bar a few who retrained for the burgeoning futures markets in right-to-pollute certificates and manual-job options . |
| 3 | Forming a club enables them to enter competitions together , and this they did for the first time recently at the combined Hampshire and Berkshire county championships , held at Reading gaol . |
| 4 | Guess how much I paid for the Christmas pud ? |
| 5 | In the Annual Report published in July , Hugh Laughland , Chairman of Stoddard Sekers International PLC , praised the efforts of all who worked for the company . |
| 6 | That 's all we did for the statutory undertakers . |
| 7 | Next day they had taken the mirror and the pottery and the porcelain to Long Melford because there were more antique shops in Long Melford than anywhere else they had seen , but £20 was all they got for the lot . |
| 8 | In effect , professional and financial factors combined with political pressures to strengthen the camp of those who pressed for the reform of ORTF . |
| 9 | That should go to the rescue workers who took great risks to bring out survivors , the skill of the medical teams and the love expressed by those who cared for the injured and bereaved . |
| 10 | Those who opted for the unit trust — the South and East Asia Growth Trust — would have been able to realise their holdings for cash at about 98 per cent of Drayton Asia . |
| 11 | There were those who fought for the joy of fighting and those who slew for the sake of slaying . |
| 12 | Yet the fact that up to 40 per cent felt under no compulsion to oblige the local magnates with their votes is revealing , and makes us wonder whether those who polled for the Whigs really did so out of deference or as a result of political conviction . |
| 13 | Under the old regional arrangements , the entrepreneurial independent tour organisers had been able to profit handsomely ; especially those who catered for the insatiable demand by railway enthusiasts to travel ‘ new ’ lines behind favourite or unusual diesel types . |
| 14 | Even when the incumbent on the throne showed little inclination for active policy-making , those who acted for the Tsar owed their power solely to proximity to the throne . |
| 15 | For example , an investigation into height and weight growth rates was conducted in January 1940 on a group of Manchester children evacuated to Glossop : generally , evacuee children who drank milk regularly grew faster than those who did not , but those who paid for the milk showed faster growth rates than the poorer children who received it free indicating that social class factors were at work . |
| 16 | This embittered minority included not only Greeks who chose to vote for the Communists , when these were eventually relegalised , but a large number of those who voted for the Socialist Party that Andreas Papandreou created in 1974 . |
| 17 | Following their defeat at the Wiltshire election of 1713 , the Whig candidates petitioned the House of Commons , complaining that the under-sheriff , in collusion with the two Tory candidates , had delayed opening the poll until the afternoon , " when many freeholders , who would have voted for the petitioners , were necessitated , by reason of the harvest , to go away without voting " , and also that he had " refused those who voted for the petitioners , and had a right ; and polled others amongst them , who had no right " . |
| 18 | In seminars held there last Thursday and Friday two groups of scientists announced what may turn out to be the first evidence of CERN 's greatest discovery yet , a particle known simply by the letter W. If proven the discovery will vindicate all those who pushed for the means to make it possible . |
| 19 | He was the accomplice of those who pushed for the 20 per cent . |
| 20 | The county members and those who sat for the few boroughs in which the franchise was reasonably wide were normally the most independent of eighteenth-century MPs ; but they were in a minority . |
| 21 | With that he headed for the garden gate , rubbing his hands on a rag . |
| 22 | One result of this has been the pervasive influence of linguistic methodology upon such studies of objects as have developed in recent decades ; and while the rise of semiotics in the 1960s was advantages in that it provided for the extension of linguistic research into other domains , any of which could be treated as a semiotic system ( e.g. Eco 1976 : 9–14 ) , this extension took place at the expense of subordinating the object qualities of things to their word-like properties . |