Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb past] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The alacrity with which northerners enlisted for military service whenever warfare flared up on the Border speaks for itself . |
| 2 | Gudok pointed out that such an exploit could not be repeated all over Russia , so staff on individual railway lines would have to keep their eyes skinned for military or criminal activity . |
| 3 | The same was true of Street Scene , which Vidor directed for Goldwyn-United Artists in 1931 . |
| 4 | The USRC therefore made only a limited impact ; most of its members sat for industrial seats and its propaganda was concentrated there for their benefit . |
| 5 | In return , the US negotiators agreed to Japanese demands for action on its spiralling budget deficit , which Japan blamed for excessive US consumer demand and for an excessively strong US dollar . |
| 6 | Thirdly , these studies have emphasised the importance which jobs held for young women — as a source of status and independence both outside and within the family . |
| 7 | Quinn , who Smith signed for United from Portsmouth three years ago , was disciplined for criticising Keegan last month and is likely to be one of the summer departures from St James 's Park . |
| 8 | SGML is supposed to be able to do for document-based information what SQL did for proprietary databases . |
| 9 | The historians of a general history , on the other hand , reject interpretation as such in favour of making the evidence of documents intelligible by posing questions to them , constituting through such questions what counts as the series of historical events , its elements , its limits , and its relation to other series , or what rules operated for particular discursive practices . |
| 10 | We know what CAMRA did for real ale and there is even a chance — is n't there ? — that Greenpeace will save us from ourselves . |
| 11 | Look what loyalty did for Sabine ! |
| 12 | However , having overcome that obstacle we headed down the major road for Arad and despite the large pot holes which had to be avoided and the need to keep your eyes skinned for mobile hayricks ( horses and extremely overladen carts with no lights ) doing approximately 2 miles per hour , we arrived at our friends ' home in Arad at around 8.30 very relieved that we had reached our first destination . |