Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [adv prt] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from Perdita , the Rutshire team for the Jack Gannon Cup consisted of Justin and Patrick Lombard , farmer 's sons who 'd spent their lives in the saddle and who made up for lack of finesse with dogged determination , and David Waterlane 's son , Mike , now nearly twenty-one , who played like an angel when his father was n't on the sideline bellowing at him . |
| 2 | These are , for example , the nameless and faceless workers who lined up for work in response to Henry Ford 's visionary offer of a $5-per-day paycheck . |
| 3 | They will include Alan Phair , who lined out for King 's Scholars , Portadown and Malone , and Ray McClelland , a former Academy player . |
| 4 | He described the heap of rubble from which it and the rest of the building had risen and how he and the owner , who came up for weekends , had taken eight years to finish it and turn it into the Mirimar which we now perceived it to be . |
| 5 | — subs were Newsome , Whelan ( who came on for Sharpe towards the end ) and Lukic |
| 6 | He began building extremely cheap mass housing for war veterans , who camped out for nights to secure a house on no deposit whatever . |
| 7 | One girl who turned up for night duty wearing plimsolls received a proper rocket . |
| 8 | Head teacher John Moorhead and pupil Frankie Mckay , who turned up for school yesterday morning |
| 9 | ‘ There was a Jonah Blunt who turned out for Somerset occasionally , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Included in the Australian contingent for Sunday 's match are Simon Poidevin , who leads the side , Bill Calcraft and Enrique Rodriguez , the prop who turned out for Argentina before emigrating and playing for Australia . |
| 11 | Hopes were rising that the shoppers who rushed out for bargains on offer in the January sales may have finally triggered the long-awaited recovery in consumer spending . |
| 12 | He could not abide those who went in for exhibitionism , considering such to be irreligious . |
| 13 | Turnip salad with capers is no shock today and raw choucroûte salad , an idea Pomiane had picked up in Moscow — buy very fresh choucroûte from the charcutier and stop at the village pump to wash it thoroughly , he told those of his French readers who went in for picnics on canoeing and automobile excursions — should be the joy of vegetarians . |
| 14 | Some of these types who went in for murder as a professional thing would probably take you to the cleaners as soon as look at you . |
| 15 | She was critical of what she called ‘ strong-minded women ’ , who went in for stridency and useless eccentricity , preferring the ‘ sound-minded women … who can take a journey by railway without an escort , who can stand by a friend through a surgical operation , and who yet wear ordinary bonnets and carry medium-sized umbrellas ’ . |
| 16 | I do n't know who went off for Batty , I was just relieved when he did . |
| 17 | Pipkin , who looked round for Hazel and then came over to wait beside him . |
| 18 | Eddie Youds made way for sub keeper Clive Baker who held out for Ipswich 's eighth draw . |
| 19 | But I always think so many mums , dads and children who set off for work and school in the morning wo n't be coming back . ’ |
| 20 | In a discussion with Jenny Ball , we talked about those women teachers who stood up for women 's rights . |
| 21 | Eithne , an accomplished singer who stood in for Barbara Dickson in Blood Brothers at London 's Lyric Theatre , says she left the soap because there was no future development for her Mrs Rogers . |