Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun] [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He strode away to the Bridge of Straw where sleek motor-launches jostled for position and came to a halt by one which was larger , sleeker and more opulently fitted out than the rest . |
| 2 | The first sign was slogans daubed on the wall of a kuttub , a religious school where small children went for their first instruction in the Koran . |
| 3 | admitting things like losing fifty billion quid on fluttering on foreign exchanges er Mr did or flittering away the north sea oil revenue in tax cuts for higher earners rather than er keeping that er once in a life time er bonus that this country had for the north sea oil and also you could mention the increased pension for but it did n't match billions that have been wasted on defence expenditure especially defence expenditure and especially the trident programme . |
| 4 | And we had four casters in the works and I had to go and sort out the , I 'll tell you about the find the castings that these men wanted for their lot , take them down to the castors and tell them in priority which I wanted , you know and er all that sort of thing and erm I had n't used to do any , making any locks hardly at the end , you know I had , I had before but er if I might say so , er I became mo the most important man on the factory , you know . |
| 5 | The vacated space was then re-occupied as more than 600 runners jostled for a starting position . |
| 6 | The discussion was not conclusive but views were expressed that , while there was no such obligation on the Central Authority , if it felt that good grounds existed for an appeal , it could properly act . |
| 7 | Difficulties with the special paint finishes that General Motors wanted for its Buick plant in Lansing , Michigan , led PPG to move into the factory to manage the process itself . |
| 8 | Ultimately , there might have been differences between them in what enlargement meant , but the point is that higher education stood for an overriding and widening development of the mind . |
| 9 | It would n't be pity that any man felt for Sarah Morey . |
| 10 | The computer craze started by the Nintendo character reached fever pitch as more than 15,000 people waited for up to three hours to get into London 's Earls Court . |
| 11 | Raym. 742 in which it was held that indebitatus assumpsit lay for money paid under the sentence of a court which had no jurisdiction . |
| 12 | And this smell lasted for about half an hour and then , then I could n't smell it again . |
| 13 | These two industries dominated the town 's employment as well as its social life and this situation lasted for a century . |
| 14 | Thus Mary of Guise and cardinal Beaton fought for the support of lord Gray and lord Ruthven ; Beaton won the first , though in 1548 he came over to Mary ; two years after the cardinal 's death , Mary won the second . |
| 15 | Mrs Bennet came to clean four times a week now , and another woman came for the washing , and Julia often wondered how she would have managed without them . |
| 16 | All Scotland 's impressive technique and tactical shrewdness went for nought in the 26th minute , though , when they lost a depressingly poor goal . |
| 17 | The defence thus utilized one side of the ambivalence — the love and high esteem felt for the father — to build a bulwark against the other — the hate and contempt of the father — in order to inhibit the aggressive egoism of males and make them all equally subject to a primal father-figure who for the first time now became fully internalized as a shared superego . |
| 18 | Beneath a giant red star and the name ‘ Tito ’ painted on a hillside , Muslim and Serbian guerrillas jousted for supremacy in the latest phase of the bloody disintegration of the Communist patrician 's Yugoslav federation . |
| 19 | Unemployment rose dramatically , while the manufacturing industry declined steeply , producing in 1932 only just over half its output in 1929. wheat fell from $1.05 a bushel in 1929 to 39 cents in 1932 , and similar falls occurred for most other agricultural products . |
| 20 | A Steiff gold plush Teddy Bear , circa 1910 , only 8½″ high , named Marmaduke , brought £1,200 and wooden Noah 's Ark 29″ long x 18″ high with 16 carved wooden animals and 7 birds went for £1,000 . |
| 21 | The shock and mystery of two tragic and violent deaths jostled for attention with a sense of uncertainty over her future relationship with Barney . |
| 22 | Few looked upon parties in a favourable light and majorities even of party identifiers were unable to Perceive any important differences between what the Republican and Democratic parties stood for . |
| 23 | Each one of them exterminated in Sobibor , the photograph fluttering into a pile of a thousand personal papers and documents with tens of thousands of spectacles and hundreds of thousands of shoes and boots — to be salvaged or burnt and either way lost for ever . |
| 24 | US Marines have won medals of honour dying to save their flag , and these kids died for their symbols as well . |
| 25 | The technical and objective manner lasted for about nine pages , then the eyes watered up again , the voice started strangulating , dirty great blobs welled up over my vision and I got seriously worried about my ability to perform this piece in a grown-up manner . |
| 26 | There was no time for him to get up the steps and past the door before it opened and deadly talons reached for him in the darkness . |
| 27 | If married persons sterilized for non-contraceptive reasons are included , the proportion of the subfecund rises to 25 per cent ( most non-contraceptive sterilizations are for conditions which would themselves cause sterility : McFalls and McFalls 1984 ) . |
| 28 | No matter how many causes and causal circumstances existed for an effect , it was true of each cause that if it occurred , so did the effect . |
| 29 | The German offensive on Russia only two months later shocked Japan , and many Japanese argued for the breaking of the non-aggression pact . |
| 30 | When two Whigs and one Tory stood for Hampshire in 1705 , only 201 out of 3,517 freeholders voting split their votes ( 5.7 per cent ) , whilst 724 plumped for the single Tory candidate . |