Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adv] [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I put it to him , ‘ Being famous does n't necessarily endow a guitarist with insight into the design and workings of the guitar , so why are artists so often asked for their input and reviewers almost never , when our job is to understand , examine and pass judgement on guitars on a daily basis ? ’ |
| 2 | The Beretta 92 had always been Sabrina 's favourite handgun but Graham still secretly hankered for the Colt .45 he had first started to use in Vietnam . |
| 3 | The BEA thus increasingly looked for sites more distant from the load centres , locating them instead on the coast ( where cooling water supplies were cheap and plentiful ) or on the coalfields ( where coal would be the cheapest ) . |
| 4 | In the mid-1980s the Daily Telegraph probably still spoke for the great bulk of Middle England , when , after Britain had yet again resisted international calls to reduce pollution , it announced : |
| 5 | He had already blown out in the first two matches yet still went for a practice to give me information on a different stretch for which I was grateful . |
| 6 | ‘ Although I had seen a few people through Plump Partners — some of whom are still great friends — romance never really blossomed for me . |
| 7 | Perhaps the only thing to do is to make her dance as Elizabeth von Rosen so memorably did for the Royal Danish Ballet decades ago . |
| 8 | In the Spring of 1966 , six of the Commissioners , led by Radzinowicz and Wootton resigned , having become persuaded that , with substantial legislation pending , and in the absence of conclusive research to support recommendations likely to last for a lengthy period , the opportunity no longer existed for the Commission to make a comprehensive report capable of setting the direction for a generation . |
| 9 | St Jude 's Square lay before her , level and familiar , flanked by its old taverns and the graceful iron railings of St Jude 's churchyard where Luke still often waited for her ; the square crowded and ebullient today with the stalls for the Friday market , with traders and dealers and pedlars of fancy braids and buttons , fans , feathers , bright little birds in cages , beads , sequins , second-hand dresses that could be unpicked and made over , second-hand bonnets that could be remodelled , old belts that sometimes had decent buckles , sugar sticks the colour of rubies and emeralds that would be a treat for Liam . |