Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | Wimbledon boss Joe Kinnear after just 1,987 fans turned up for the Coca-Cola match against Bolton |
| 7 | Entire villages turned out for the spectacle and in Györ , the Bishop himself headed the assembled burghers . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Recurrent stones in five of the nine patients followed up for a median of 14 months are believed to have developed from residual fragments . |
| 14 | One example of this work is the taped interviews carried out for the Imperial War Museum in London of the remaining survivors of the 1914–18 war . |
| 15 | More than 40,000 fans turned up for the 12-hour event , Britain 's biggest-ever legal Rave gig . |
| 16 | Twenty-six teams turned up for the sporting events which included bowls , mixed netball , darts , 5-a-side football and the ever popular It's-a-Knockout and Superstars events . |
| 17 | It was boring in the passage but also , it proved , necessary , as one or two passengers came back for a look at the corpse . |
| 18 | He spilled some of the machine tea from the plastic cups as he moved , and one of the wizened youths glanced back for a moment in disapproval . |
| 19 | When the fire was out the hut grew cold and the two boys settled down for the night under their blankets . |
| 20 | Having escaped from their field , two goats wandered around for a while until they found themselves in a rubbish dump . |
| 21 | Eager Owls fired up for a fightback |
| 22 | Now go and fetch Glastonbury and let's get these farcical interviews wrapped up for the afternoon . ’ |