Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb past] [adv] for [det] " in BNC.

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1 Such hopes as there may have been — American , French , even Vietminh — of a cease-fire or negotiated settlement lingered on for several months but once the French had begun fighting they presented their case , modestly , that military operations were designed with no thought of reconquest but simply to persuade the Vietminh that they had no hope of victory .
2 Mrs Putt might want a stall cleared out and fresh straw put in for some company she 's expecting , or she 'll want me to hitch up a carriage so she can go visiting .
3 The lame recital went on for some time , while Jerome , piteously small and shrunken and wretched , kneeled in Rhun 's supple , generous arm , with that radiant , silent face beside him , to point searing differences .
4 Widespread violence flared again for several days from July 14 , with unauthorized rallies , inter-ethnic clashes , pogroms and attacks on official buildings reported in Osh city and several other localities .
5 Because Bal 31 can remove telomeric repeats very quickly , this value may be largely underestimated , but it is in agreement with the small size observed above for some of the telomeric fragments .
6 Not surprisingly the concept of dominant ideology came in for some discussion .
7 If the green light came on for either project , the paper would go straight to capitalization as a commercial company .
8 In front of the railway station , a second police car ( summoned by a confident Morse as Lewis had driven him from North Oxford ) was now waiting , and the Chief Inspector nodded a perfunctory greeting to the two detective-constables who sat side by side in the front seats as they watched , and awaited , developments ; watched the three men walk over to the twenty-minute waiting-area set aside for those meeting passengers from British Rail journeys — an area where parking cost nothing at all ; watched them as they passed through that area and walked into the main car-park , with the bold notice affording innocent trespassers the clearest warning :
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