Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [vb past] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once Hopkinson arrived late for breakfast to find the Colonel by himself reading a newspaper . |
| 2 | More than three-quarters of those on the electoral register turned out on each occasion to cast their vote and , of those who did so , more than 90% voted usually for either the Conservative or Labour candidate . |
| 3 | Did n't Edith say then that Ann came across for Christmas ? |
| 4 | Although Liphook strove hard for the equaliser , they were unable to take advantage of the many opportunities created . |
| 5 | The work continued under another architect , but the death of Marino , combined with the vast expense of the building together with the losses his surviving family also suffered at the hands of the new Spanish governors , meant that work stopped altogether for many years . |
| 6 | The only time that Gooch performed well for Gower was in the 1985 Ashes series , when England won 3–1 and David had his finest hour , but on the two occasions when Gooch 's help was most desperately needed — against West Indies in 1985–86 and Australia in 1989 — Gooch 's total contribution was 459 runs at 24.16 . |
| 7 | Just as he reacted strongly against Richards 's suggestion that The Waste Land had severed poetry from belief , which carried the implication that the poem was a cultural museum , so Eliot campaigned now for the preservation of London 's churches not as museum pieces , but as centres of religion . |
| 8 | Spared that sort of indignity , the 22 horses and riders approached individually for a staggered start . |
| 9 | Becker and Engelman combined only for a pleasantly smoochy encore by David Jaeger , composed this year and arranged by Engelman from a piano accompaniment to the viola . |
| 10 | my brother and sister went away for the week , right , |
| 11 | Then , as the fog , rain and snow persisted , it was further delayed ; then again and again , until at dawn on 21 February the weather and visibility improved sufficiently for the bombardment to be opened . |
| 12 | Their journey took them to Munich , where Mozart and Nannerl played again for Elector Maximilian III Joseph of Bavaria and Clemens , Duke of Bavaria . |
| 13 | Card series contains works by the Great Masters as well as those by contemporary artists and subjects produced especially for children |
| 14 | Hobbs , Hutchings , Hardstaff and Humphries played together for England in 1908 , for example , and Hassett , Hole , Harvey and Hill played for Australia in two matches of the Coronation series , Hunte , Holford , Hendriks and Hall were all picked for West Indies in 1966 , and Hedley Howarth , two Hadlees and Hastings played for New Zealand in 1974 . |
| 15 | Bateson and Punnett worked together for nearly seven years ; they were the founders of experimental genetics in Britain , and the main exponents of Mendel 's models of inheritance . |
| 16 | At the same time Miss Butterworth was employing women at the Flax Home Industry House at Grasmere and work continued there for many years . |
| 17 | Joe and Eileen were given short compassionate leave and Stephen came home for the funeral . |
| 18 | ‘ He 's being Christian again , ’ said Camille , and she and Sam giggled intermittently for the rest of the evening . |
| 19 | I was n't even tempted , until Darren came home for a while and started having a lot of fits . |
| 20 | Friends and relatives wept uncontrollably for Helen , 15 , who was found strangled on a path at Horndean , near Portsmouth , six weeks ago . |
| 21 | Overall , injury and assault accounted directly for 36% of consultations and alcohol for 19% . |
| 22 | The thing is " She paused , and Sara waited silently for her to continue . |
| 23 | When it was born rationing was a part of everyday life and people queued quietly for health care just as in the war they had queued for food . |
| 24 | Both Beatrice and Modigliani behaved impeccably for the occasion . |
| 25 | At the end of November , ten or eleven boys climbed the big walnut tree in the middle of the village , swinging about among its branches , and women and children scrabbled laughingly for the nuts as they fell . |
| 26 | He opened the door to the garden , and from Classes 2 and 3 a small group of boys in white running-shorts and T-shirts ran silently for the open air . |
| 27 | It was already beginning to fill up with French businessmen , and Jean-Paul made purposefully for a table in the window . |
| 28 | Before the enrolment of a new group of students onto a programme , centres are required to submit to HCIMA three copies of assessment scheme and information listed below for the areas of study to be offered in the coming session . |
| 29 | Table 15 indicates that 45% of authorities experienced an increase in allocated money , while 31% had the same amount and 11% had less for 1984/5 . |
| 30 | ‘ Why , Mummy , ’ the child was asking in the bath , tickling her little bottom moving up and down on the sandy deposit at the bottom of the bath until Tony had nowhere for his legs , ‘ when the sky is blue very very blue all over and you look at it is it white ? ’ |