Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have to admit that I felt a strange sense of elation as I hit him again , in fact I plumbed the depths of bad taste by yelling , ‘ Never one around when you want one , is there , Jack ? ’ as Armstrong bounced for the second time . |
| 2 | The other Senate seat up for election went for the first time to the PAN , which won 17.7 per cent of the vote and secured 92 seats in the Chamber of Deputies . |
| 3 | Although the growth of Brighton accounted for some of this expansion , most of the burden fell on an economic base too narrow to cope adequately , there being few alternatives to agriculture . |
| 4 | To take just one more example , the central urban township of Sheffield accounted for only one-twentieth of the 22,370-acre parish which stretched from the industrial villages of Attercliffe and Darnall in the east to isolated farms in the west . |
| 5 | For many years readers DENISE BAILEY of Sussex longed for a pond in the garden , but with small children around the idea was shelved — until now . |
| 6 | The fate of Mirabeau , for instance , would have been sealed by the lack of sympathy felt for him by the people , on account of their irritation with the Court 's defence of the old order . |
| 7 | He then spent a brief spell on the staff at the Gaczyna spy school before being sent to Angola in 1974 as a senior military adviser ; three years later he took over as commandant of the notorious Balashikha , a centre on the outskirts of Moscow used for the training of international terrorists . |
| 8 | Tours of Czechoslovakia planned for 1992 . |
| 9 | The first stage of Felix lased for the first time in August 1991 , and the second stage will be operational this summer . |
| 10 | Equally , the theologians ' new concentration on the literal meaning of the Bible produced a new view of the judge 's obligations which Charles the Good of Flanders exploited for himself : |
| 11 | This cast of mind survived for decades . |
| 12 | On one side of him was the complex inhabited thicket of the hedge in which flocks of bullfinches competed for fodder and invisibly singing warblers were stationed at thirty-yard intervals ; on the other was a great sloping reach of field , the earth a reddish copper colour and patterned like a Japanese garden with the swirls and furrows left by machinery . |
| 13 | The questionnaire addressed to the Head of Department asked for information under five headings : |
| 14 | Thus it makes sense to share the teaching resources that have been developed which incorporate relatively straightforward extracts of data formatted for use with specific software and which are documented clearly and comprehensively . |
| 15 | At 39 Castle Street , the author of Waverley lived for twenty-four years and wrote many of his famous novels . |
| 16 | The WRU has ruled that none of its players will be given permission to take part in the centenary tour of Natal planned for next summer . |
| 17 | While in Cartagena , Colombia , on Dec. 2-3 for the " Group of Rio " summit [ see p. 38675 ] , President Fujimori of Peru and President Borja of Ecuador met for the first time to discuss their longstanding border dispute [ see p. 38526 ] . |
| 18 | On 7 August 1548 , Mary Queen of Scots sailed for France . |
| 19 | If the cortes of Navarre and Castile prolonged a phantom existence that of Aragon vanished for ever . |
| 20 | Hundreds of fans queued for hours in the cold to see the pop group EMF stage a special concert in their home town . |
| 21 | Hundreds of fans queued for hours to meet the man who became heavyweight champion of the world but in the process developed Parkinson 's Syndrome , a disorder of the nervous system . |
| 22 | Mauritania , still in dispute with Senegal , was not represented by its head of state , and there was no delegation from Nigeria , which had been represented in Casablanca in December 1988 [ p. 36717 ] ; however , President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda attended for the first time . |
| 23 | The development costs of Ariane accounted for 30 per cent of French space spending between 1974 and 1979 . |
| 24 | For Henri , the desire for French control of Scotland had for the moment given way to Valois need to counter an extension of Hapsburg power ; and Mary was as useful for the one as for the other . |
| 25 | The office of Keeper of the Registers and Records of Scotland existed for only twenty years , terminating in 1948 . |
| 26 | The south east of England accounted for 58 per cent of all voluntary liquidations with 8,115 up from 7,715 in 1991 . |
| 27 | The Governor of the Bank of England called for a slow-down on 22 October 1991 . |
| 28 | Winner Jean : The winds of fate blew for Jean Morris , winner of Middlesbrough Council 's Captain Cook Birthday Balloon Race . |
| 29 | More than six years ago Bank of Ireland advertised for school leavers with a high level of secondary education who were intelligent , energetic , ambitious and possessing of a high level of social skills . |
| 30 | and boys of Theatre-land waited for their |