Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb past] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It led to an abandoned fishing hamlet called Hamningberg , where we camped for the night in a grassy field studded with interesting saxifrages and other flowers . |
| 2 | That evening we left Fort St Nogent on a coach for the Gare de Lyons where we embarked for the south of France on an overnight express . |
| 3 | The overwhelming majority of Russians — some 83 per cent in the 1989 census — lived in the Russian Republic , where they accounted for the same proportion of the local population . |
| 4 | He did no wilful damage but regarded himself as entitled to go where he wished for the purpose in his mind without regard to the rights of ownership and the alleged presence of man traps and spring guns . |
| 5 | In 1837 he was apprenticed to his uncle James S. Stirling at Dundee foundry , where he worked for the next six years and where some locomotives were built for the Arbroath and Forfar Railway which influenced his own later designs . |
| 6 | In business for himself , first near St Paul 's , but by 1812 firmly established at the Royal Exchange in Cornhill ( where he remained for the rest of his career , apart from an enforced absence during the rebuilding of 1838–44 ) , Wilson became the determined champion of a free press — ‘ It is like the air we breathe ; if we have it not , we die . ’ |
| 7 | Mick began , then paused where it asked for the name of the vehicle 's owner . |
| 8 | Working with the head of naval aviation , Admiral Shigemi Inoue , Yamamoto submitted a detailed memorandum to the Minister — where it rested for the moment . |
| 9 | The train braked to a shuddering halt at the Paisley signal box where it remained for the next thirty minutes whilst the driver and guard proceeded to examine the underside and topside of the train . |
| 10 | When the partnership was dissolved he moved his office to Great George Street , Westminster , where it remained for the rest of his life . |
| 11 | I decided to go for the pills first , but after three months I was still in agony so I went for the laser operation . |
| 12 | in the endland It was too far to go every day , so I went for the week , came home to the flat at weekends , She had squash , groundnuts , rows of beans on nylon lines She had me for the weeding . |
| 13 | We were nearing the camp , so I aimed for the ruts in the track and put my foot down . |
| 14 | I ducked so fast I was n't sure whether he 'd seen me or not , but it gave me a prickly feeling just to imagine it , so I scuttled for the door and legged it up the spiral stairway three steps at a time , just in case . |
| 15 | And although she listened for the sound of his steps , she did not hear them . |
| 16 | ‘ Better than you did for the entire evening . ’ |
| 17 | No , no ; that sounded too much like the Bible , so she plumped for the simple way and finished , ‘ He has given her a baby . ’ |
| 18 | She suddenly wanted to throw something at him , anything , needing to hurt him as she was hurting , but could n't actually reach his ambitious heart , so she aimed for the next best thing : his self-respect . |
| 19 | We decided we were n't going to get on without flirting with a lot of trouble , so we opted for the trusty 1-iron again . |
| 20 | It seemed to fly OK , so we prepared for the 482 kilometres water crossing to Australia . |
| 21 | But you need real people for a proper gloat so we headed for the cardboard suburb in the Strand . |
| 22 | By midday we were making giant strides , so we headed for the hills and learnt how to herringbone up them and swoosh down them . |
| 23 | The TV detection team did n't fall for it , any more than they did for the man who claimed his set was never used . |
| 24 | Holland declined to stand for Norfolk in 1679 , although he voted for the exclusionists , and stood unsuccessfully in 1685 as a trimmer . |
| 25 | She watched him walk away along the corridor heading back towards the club , her heart feeling lighter than it had for the past week . |
| 26 | For the top and intermediate Party leadership , Hitler 's image stood therefore in far closer relationship to reality than it did for the broad mass of the population . |
| 27 | He has a dynamic personality and musical discrimination , and without exception the orchestra played much better for him than it did for the ballet conductor , Viktor Fedotov . |
| 28 | It took longer for the territories with loud speakers to be occupied than it did for the silent territories ( Figure 6.2 ) . |
| 29 | Newcastle clearly had n't heard of Sunderland , so he asked for the Wearside number . |
| 30 | The offer coincided with a move to separate the Cheltenham Schools of Architecture and Art , with which he disagreed , so he applied for the post and succeeded despite his now apparent and debilitating illness . |