Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The political parties warmed up for a general election by bickering over whether the new health trusts remain part of the national health service . |
| 2 | The Righteous Brothers popped in for a swifty , as did Twin Peaks star Sherilyn Fenn . |
| 3 | The Righteous Brothers popped in for a swifty , as did Twin Peaks star Sherilyn Fenn . |
| 4 | ‘ Your concern does you credit , and I 'll see to it you have a few things wrapped up for the poor woman when you go to see her . ’ |
| 5 | But the English Commissioners and English Government held out for an incorporating union , and prevailed . |
| 6 | The immunity of Swiss companies to unfriendly or foreign takeovers came in for a pounding in 1988 after Nestlé took over Rowntree , a British confectioner , causing noisy British complaints about the lack of reciprocal opportunities . |
| 7 | This situation carried on for a few weeks , she would try to talk but always just ended up leaving some food on the step . |
| 8 | And as the bridal couple stood up for the first dance , she felt the enormous gulf between their obvious carefree happiness and her present misery . |
| 9 | This view lingered on for a long time and probably still exists to this day . |
| 10 | Wimbledon boss Joe Kinnear after just 1,987 fans turned up for the Coca-Cola match against Bolton |
| 11 | I thought , ‘ Well , I 've got second place wrapped up for the Open ! ’ |
| 12 | Liverpool City Council 's leisure services department believe more than 30,000 people turned out for a thrilling 20-minute extravaganza . |
| 13 | Entire villages turned out for the spectacle and in Györ , the Bishop himself headed the assembled burghers . |
| 14 | Here he could live in virtually complete seclusion , at a fraction of the cost it would take in northern Europe or Canada ; where the people were unconcerned as to who you were or what you did ; and where breathtaking vistas opened up for the seeing — both external and internal . |
| 15 | At £115 ( today a first edition set of Birds of Australia is worth in excess of £150,000 ) 283 subscribers signed up for the privilege of owning a copy . |
| 16 | The environmental quality of national parks in England and Wales has deteriorated over the last two decades , according to the first-ever national survey carried out for the Countryside Commission . |
| 17 | The legislation has been designed in part on the basis of research on custodial interrogation carried out for the Royal Commission on Criminal Procedure . |
| 18 | Sixty fishermen turned out for the competition on Rutland Water , which had opened for the new season only four days earlier , after an initial stocking with 40,000 trout . |
| 19 | At the end of the day 550 people sat down for a superb dinner in the marquee , prepared by and his team , where the trophies and prizes from the Grand Draw were presented , followed by a disco . |
| 20 | And , imagine all that loose change brought in for the gambling machines bouncing high like metal sparks . |
| 21 | Tomorrow night we 're back with the display team , this time in the city of San Diego where huge and hungry crowds built up for a game of American football . |
| 22 | An independent inquiry carried out for the DTI by Sir Godfrey le Quesne QC in 1989 emphasised the reliance the DTI had placed on Spicers ' opinion in granting BC a licence in 1985 . |
| 23 | When this goon is at the point of his beat furthest away from our stretch of wire , the Wing Commander will give the signal to Clinker here — ’ a dark beetle-like man stood up for a moment and sat down again , ‘ — who will fuse the entire lighting system of the camp including the searchlights . ’ |
| 24 | THE LATEST opinion poll , a comprehensive survey of 10,000 voters carried out for the Press Association news agency , last night gave Labour an eight-point lead over the Conservatives . |
| 25 | A £1,000 computer , several orders of magnitude more powerful than machines which cost £3,000 even five years ago , has very little profit built in for the supplier . |
| 26 | Her attendants pay homage before entertaining her by dancing round the small maypole set up for the purpose . |
| 27 | Rather later than planned Rain set off for the Old Mitre pub . |
| 28 | Recurrent stones in five of the nine patients followed up for a median of 14 months are believed to have developed from residual fragments . |
| 29 | They can be bought direct via a stockbroker , or via a managed fund set up for the purpose . |
| 30 | I told him it was n't me. ’ — The amateur footballer sent off for a foul by his twin brother . |