Example sentences of "who [vb past] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any golfer who qualified for the Tour had assuredly earned and paid for the privilege . |
| 2 | A neighbour at his home in Southend , Essex , said : ‘ He was a smashing lad who lived for the Army . |
| 3 | The conference was marked by a split between the USA , Soviet Union and Saudi Arabia on the one hand , who resisted the imposition of specific emissions cuts , and the remaining Western countries , including Europe , Japan and Australia , on the other , who argued for the adoption of a freeze on C02 emissions at present levels by the year 2000 . |
| 4 | Another fairly important change was that a review by a review board should be discontinued if it was established that the inspector 's report did not adversely affect the reputation of the person who applied for the review . |
| 5 | Millions who applied for the minimum 100 shares in the great water sell-off are likely today to be told their applications are being met in full despite a huge oversubcription to the £5.24billion privatisation . |
| 6 | Many from Transylvania who fought for the downfall of Ceaucescu are persecuted , whilst his defenders are treated as heroes . |
| 7 | Colonel Bullen Reynes , who fought for the king during the Civil War , built the house in the 1690s . |
| 8 | When they wanted to stop the investment programme , it was managing director Malcolm Cotton who fought for the idea . |
| 9 | The demonstrators want Britain to apologize for the executions of nine men who fought for the island 's independence in the fifties . |
| 10 | There were those who fought for the joy of fighting and those who slew for the sake of slaying . |
| 11 | There were some who were clever , some who were stupid , and none who cared for the lecture that would take her forty-five minutes to read and three evenings to prepare . |
| 12 | I could see that the old bull was not going to be forced to drink , and he protested by coming after my father-in-law who made for the post . |
| 13 | No the men that was work oh the men that was just there was oh Those names was the one who came for the shooting season . |
| 14 | Bill Davies was a Welsh International winger who played for The Palace in nearly 200 Southern League matches in two spells with the club from 1907 , until the 1st World War forced a conclusion to fully competitive football in 1915 . |
| 15 | Gavin Nebbeling was a tall , upright , South African central defender who played for the Palace throughout the 1980s , but his career was continually dogged by injury and this rather limited his value , although his League appearances exceeded 150 by the time he moved on to Fulham in the summer of 1989 . |
| 16 | Alan Stephenson was a tall , stylish , slimly-built but strong centre-half , who played for the Palace with grace and power in the tough footballing days of the mid-1960s . |
| 17 | SPAIN , who qualified at the expense of their fellow Iberians , Portugal ( withdrawn ) , are captained by winger Jaime Gutierrez and include several players from the senior squad ; while JAPAN feature , among a host of World Cup players , the electric winger Yoshihito Yoshida , of Meiji University , who played for the World XV in the Centenary series against New Zealand . |
| 18 | Paddy , 26 , who played for the Hare And Hounds , at Sway , said : ‘ It 's totally ridiculous . ’ |
| 19 | Statham , who played for the county from 1950 to 1968 , served on the committee for 21 years . |
| 20 | Always a favourite in London , the Russian star who opted for the West in 1974 is now in his mid-forties — absolutely the right time to change over to a repertoire well within his present compass . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | When making an appointment the court must consider appointing the guardian who acted for the child previously ( FPCR , r10(8) ; FPR , r4.10(8) ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ When the boy came to see me , he was very shaky , ’ said legal executive Mary Jolly , who acted for the boy . |
| 25 | He said that loss adjusters who acted for the council 's insurers after November 's fire , would be attending a meeting to discuss the claim as soon as the sketches are ready . |
| 26 | Trevor Hicks , whose two daughters were among those who died , and Peter Jackson , the Liverpool solicitor who acted for the Football Supporters ' Association at the Hillsborough Inquiry , both condemn the FA for acting in haste . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Conditions of work were not pleasant ; landowners tried to get their estates cultivated by indentured labourers who had come out under a contract to work for some years for the man who paid for the journey or anyone to whom he sold the right to command their services . |
| 29 | Just who paid for the telephone call is in some doubt . |
| 30 | The frequent-flier coupons in practice become the property of the flier , not his employer ( who paid for the ticket ) . |