Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb past] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imagine my amazement when , on my first day in the new set-up , I found that everyone fought for attention by dramatizing every event . |
| 2 | When the author of the Life of Edward the Confessor says that he trusted the cause of God to his bishops , and ordered secular judges to act fairly , so that honesty could have royal support and evil its just condemnation , this may be an indication that someone did for Edward what Wulfstan had done for Æthelred and Cnut . |
| 3 | Someone said for President , no , Jimmy Stewart for President , but Ronnie Regan as best friend . |
| 4 | No-one opted for Sweden . |
| 5 | That is true , but if somebody applied for planning permission tomorrow or a or a renewal of planning permission , it would be difficult if not impossible to refuse permission for those to be committed . |
| 6 | I do n't like the government we 've got but nobody voted for men with rifles in the Abbey . ’ |
| 7 | At six o'clock everyone assembled for dinner and Mr Priddy signalled that the first course could be taken in , a heavy tureen of mock turtle soup which was to be served from a side table . |
| 8 | After that , nothing happened for hours till Gloria suddenly said , ‘ Listen , ducky , I 'm going to pop up the West End . |
| 9 | Randalstown are the side everyone tipped for league glory . |
| 10 | Like the professional illusionists , it was a case of hypnosis , part entertainment , part belief , keeping the moment of interruption suspended so that no one asked for fear of not hearing all of the tale . |
| 11 | He had a new strap fitted , but had the old one retained for posterity . |
| 12 | If some unit larger than the grapheme is used , such as a ( vowel + consonant ) unit , one might expect gead to be pronounced to rhyme with bread , because the most common pronunciation for — ead is the one used for bread . |
| 13 | Peppermint , M. x piperita , needs no description as to smell , but the leaves of black peppermint tend to be ovate , 6cm ( 2½in ) long and 4cm ( 1½in ) wide , and are purple tinged — this is grown commercially and is the one used for peppermint tea , so popular in North Africa , Pineapple mint , M. rotundifolia " Variegata " , is a form of the round-leaved mint , which often crosses with M. longifolia . |
| 14 | In this discussion the brace is the one used for stability in stoppers or as a recovery stroke to avoid capsize , not the one used when breaking in or out . |
| 15 | The bass clef is the normal one used for tenor trombones , the tenor clef being used for the top fifth or so of their compass . |
| 16 | One yearned for Richards to make the romantics smile by sending in two bowlers to polish them off , reflecting that when Percy Chapman did it with fifteen needed against Australia in 1928–9 ( and lost two wickets ! ) , |
| 17 | And that first night she experienced how one undressed for bed and how one was expected to lie . |
| 18 | ‘ The original one bound for Rome , ’ she replied without hesitation . |
| 19 | We had learnt to ride by the time we were four , and we rode everywhere ; no one went for walks in those days . |
| 20 | Everything swept and everything decked for welcome |
| 21 | It seemed that he was about to slap her and she leaned forward to take it , accepting it as the thing one did for hysteria . |
| 22 | A fight ensued which left one man dead , one crippled for life and several with lasting scars . |
| 23 | It was a depressing experience to walk along the rows of these giant steel structures coming off the production line and then to see , at the end of the row , the one earmarked for Somerset . |
| 24 | At Glasgow on 8 August 1940 , I wrote last-minute notes to friends for the recent weeks had been hectic , but the one intended for Eliot never arrived . |
| 25 | If you have say , some people who want something calendared for May , would you bother to actually go into your storage binder and actually mark it in there as well ? |
| 26 | Everyone worked for Kelloggs , and the plant turned out , each day , enough for ten million people 's breakfasts . |
| 27 | Everyone pleaded for compromise . |
| 28 | Everyone waited for Stuart to start and he would n't . |
| 29 | The North Korean vessel stopped after the warning shots were fired in the Red Sea near Yemen , but nothing intended for Iraq was found . |
| 30 | A phosphorus grenade rolled in through the door , and everyone dived for cover . |