Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [noun] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ion Pacepa has described how scientists working for the Securitate designed a telephone which could be used to bug both phone conversations and any talk in the room where the apparatus was located . |
| 2 | Some of the guilds were quite large , especially in the greater towns and cities , and wealthy enough to have not only their own chantry priest but also their own altars within the church , and there were even instances when funds allowed for the building of an additional aisle as a guild chapel . |
| 3 | Even in Italy , where Campese plays for the other Milan club owned by multi-millionaire Silvia Berlusconi — AC Milan having slightly more kudos — Campese can walk around freely . |
| 4 | Galway , who warned : ‘ When a mining company goes out the door that 's when problems start for the people left behind ’ . |
| 5 | There 's an 18 hole golf course that 's held in high regard by professionals , stables where treks head for the hills , tennis courts , mountain bikes , and of course mile after mile of wonderful alpine scenery to walk or run through . |
| 6 | A poll carried out into the reasons why people voted for the SDP candidate in the Warrington by-election of 1981 revealed that only 9 per cent did so because they supported SDP policy ; 8 per cent did so because they admired the well-known candidate ; and nearly 70 per cent voted for negative " reasons — the most frequently cited being their opposition to the extremism of the two established parties . |
| 7 | But McHale was a distant third last year when Fisher won for the third time , a sign of the troubles the three-times Tarmac champion was having with his ex-Carlos Sainz Toyota Celica . |
| 8 | By 1966 when Reagan ran for the governorship of California , he was not simply a novice with little to offer except an agreeable manner and celebrity status ; he was rather a widely experienced and articulate political animal with many of the attributes necessary for success in American politics in the late twentieth century . |
| 9 | Perhaps the most dramatic example of this is when people meet for the first time . |
| 10 | JTR travelled on to Bute on the Iona and thence through the Kyles of Bute to Ardrishaig on Loch Fyne where passengers transhipped for the continuing boat journey through the Crinan Canal to the open seas and islands of the West Coast of Argyll . |
| 11 | Athelstan was always surprised at-the effect he caused ; here he was in a place where man died for the price of a few coins , but at the sight of the lighted wax candle , the sound of the small tinkling bell and him swathed in a cope , the coarsest men and women stood aside as if they acknowledged the great mysteries he carried. , |
| 12 | The library service provided in many schools is being expanded to include a generous supply of non-reading materials … and by conference and work rooms where materials appropriate for the study of specific problems may be assembled and used by individuals or groups . |
| 13 | From mid-September through October it 's the rutting season , when stags fight for the right to collect a harem of females to breed with . |
| 14 | Newman pulled the Walther automatic out of his pocket , held it on his palm , closed his fingers when Grimwood reached for the weapon . |