Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb past] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A PLEA put out for bone marrow donors when a schoolboy soccer fan was found to have leukaemia was answered by 750 would-be helpers . |
| 2 | Hankin added : ‘ If a bid came in for Prudhoe , or any other player , we would consider it . |
| 3 | What a child found out for himself was deemed to be real and usable knowledge , while what he learned ‘ parrot-fashion ’ was not . |
| 4 | The latest is he 's improving the prisons , and ’ — her head went back now and she laughed — ‘ he 's wanting a law brought in for heavy sentences for incest . |
| 5 | The photograph itself is marred by the double-exposure of a dining-room laid out for a party , subconsciously reminding us to ‘ eat , drink and be merry , for tomorrow we die ’ . |
| 6 | Furthermore , even if a woman paid in for a full pension she had to pass the ‘ half test ’ ; that is , she had to work for at least half of her married life before she could count in her contributions both before and after marriage ( Groves , 1983 , pp. 45–7 ) . |
| 7 | A game played out for millennia . |
| 8 | This has always been strongest in the southern States , with their history of slavery and the implicit belief , well-established in the local culture , in black inferiority — a belief capitalized on for more than a century after the Civil War by the Democrats ( see below ) . |
| 9 | However , since the company itself can only act through human agents , a transaction carried out for the benefit of the company , will mean that those acting for it will be liable under the CSA 1985 . |
| 10 | In May 1940 with the threat of invasion a call went out for volunteers for a new force to be known as the Local Defence Volunteers or for short L.D.V. This was later to be called the Home Guard and " Dad 's Army " . |
| 11 | A MAN turned up for Old Bailey jury service yesterday — and found he was due to try his 20-year-old son for burglary . |
| 12 | A barking broke out for a bit and then was still . |
| 13 | and this a c a cousin came out for to Sanday |
| 14 | A DISABLED Courtaulds employee somewhere in the world will benefit from a fund set up for tragic computer expert . |
| 15 | At this point apparently , Pliny became unwell ; he lay down on a cloth spread out for him and twice asked for water to drink . |
| 16 | Lieutenant Gerry Mackenzie reported by telephone — the civilian network remained open long after the Japanese invasion — that he could see lights in the estuary of the Comoro river and a patrol went out for a quick recce . |
| 17 | What is important to highlight at this juncture is the attraction that such a possibility held out for the intellectual workers of the time . |
| 18 | By midsummer 1992 , according to a poll carried out for the newspaper The European , only in three of the twelve countries was there support for the Maastricht Treaty of over 50 per cent . |
| 19 | A survey carried out for the 1909 Royal Commission on the Poor Laws found that subsidised pauper wage-earners made up only 0.5 per cent of the female population in the sixteen areas investigated , though an 1898 report by a woman factory inspector in Glasgow had considered that a substantial amount of poor relief went in aid of wages . |
| 20 | A SURVEY carried out for the Regional Council by System 3 Scotland shows that the public has a good level of understanding of the services that Lothian 's employees provide . |
| 21 | A survey carried out for the Welsh Office , published yesterday , revealed radon ‘ hot-spots ’ in Clwyd , Gwynedd , Powys and Dyfed . |
| 22 | If ever a house cried out for a woman 's hand , thought the lady dramatically , this was it ! |
| 23 | ‘ Court proceedings could be long and drawn out , and how do you prove when a player went in for a tackle he did it with intent to harm his opponent ? |
| 24 | the first ideas or sketches of a designer noted down for future reference . |
| 25 | So I took the name and address and so eventually a summons came through for this old lady . |
| 26 | If a firm was not maximising its future cash flows , and hence its value , an opportunity opened up for a bid . |
| 27 | On 11 May , an order went out for German refugees to remain in their houses . |