Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She represented Midlands Schools around 20 times and played for Scottish Schools Under-16s in a European tournament at Largs in the 1986-87 season . |
| 32 | Filters were washed in 2xSSC , 0.2% SDS at 65°C and autoradiographed for 10–40 days ( pY53.3 ) or 1–3 days ( pcSmY1.4 ) . |
| 33 | The mixture was homogenised for 30 seconds , diluted with 50 mM K 2 HPO 4 / hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide ( 1 g/ 5 ml ) , and sonicated for 30 seconds in an ice bath . |
| 34 | The faecal sample was transferred to a 250 ml round bottomed flash with 10 ml 90% ethanol and sonicated for 15 minutes before addition of 20 ml hexane . |
| 35 | The snow was beginning to turn to rain next morning and , although the ground was white right to the shores , we all went ashore and walked for several hours . |
| 36 | The young airman turned his uniform inside out as a disguise and walked for 3 weeks until he reached Belgium . |
| 37 | The young airman turned his uniform inside out as a disguise and walked for 3 weeks until he reached Belgium . |
| 38 | As we know , the committee decided to ignore that last objective in 1991 and plumped for five countries , a decision which left those playing in France out in the cold . |
| 39 | They are almost all rich old men , since most are appointed when in their fifties and do n't retire until they reach seventy-five : Lord Leverhulme was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire in 1949 and served for forty years . |
| 40 | He was instituted there on 3 May 1631 and served for several years . |
| 41 | In 1846 he was articled to his father and served for seven years in the latter 's chambers in Gray 's Inn , also attending from 1847 to 1849 the evening lectures on architecture initiated at University College , Gower Street , by T. L. Donaldson [ q.v. ] in 1842 . |
| 42 | Though invalided out of the infantry in 1915 with tuberculosis , Pearson volunteered the following year for the Army Service Corps , and was commissioned and served for three years in Mesopotamia and Persia . |
| 43 | Anne stopped listening while they were comparing their masturbatory records , and watched for new arrivals . |
| 44 | They were often accompanied on such excursions by Christopher Sykes , who has recalled one wet Saturday afternoon when , in the Hospital gardens , they watched a football match between the Marylebone dustmen and the Chelsea Municipal Maintenance Staff : " The forlorn scene fascinated Eliot and in spite of the cold and the drizzle he stayed and watched for several minutes " . |
| 45 | But it can make its presence felt , at least to those with imaginations to see : first admired , then feared , and finally mocked and looted for fragmentary hints and occasional ideas . |
| 46 | While they advocated and worked for such extensions of democracy the European social democratic parties , whether or not they claimed to be Marxist and revolutionary , were also , for the most part , firmly committed to political democracy in the narrower sense ; and where the necessary conditions were present — the legal existence of socialist parties , elections conducted on the basis of ( at least ) universal male suffrage , and participation in parliament and government — they made plain that although they did not renounce extra-parliamentary forms of class action they envisaged the transition from capitalism to socialism as coming about through the will of a majority of citizens , clearly and publicly expressed in elections . |
| 47 | After taking the final Examination the following year he trained and worked for six months as an Assistant Solicitor with a general practice in Hull . |
| 48 | Kathryn Sykes has run a pottery , and worked for many years as a window dresser and she has used her sense of style and colour to decorate each room individually . |
| 49 | When he came out he worked for some years at a stud-farm at Henley ( Suffolk ) ; then he went back to smithing and worked for many years at Needham Market , a large village near Ipswich : |
| 50 | Children employed by such as William Douglas at his cotton mill in Salford were often taken from the workhouse at six or seven years old and worked for long hours , and were sometimes so ill-treated that they committed suicide . |
| 51 | He watched television for a while , then emptied his hand-grip and worked for two hours on his purchases of that afternoon . |
| 52 | Inspired by the coral coasts of Papua New Guinea ( where Liz lived and worked for nine years ) , this aquarium on silk is made by using a rubber-based glue called gutta in the same way that wax is used in the batik process . |
| 53 | Many of their contemporaries , however , thought so much noise must betoken some serious intent ; later , others dismissed the noise as meaningless , and looked for different motives . |
| 54 | At the same time , researchers who were unaware of the results of the lead tests interviewed the mothers , gave them intelligence tests and looked for social factors that might be affecting their children . |
| 55 | ‘ I was very upset and felt for those players who played , ’ Durie said . |
| 56 | He was dropped by Prabhakar in the gully when 73 , and at 89 should have been run out by yards , but Srikkanth 's throw from close range missed the stumps and went for four overthrows . |
| 57 | Although it was dark and the road twisted away in both directions , the undertaker had stood still and listened for several seconds before venturing up the steps to the front door . |
| 58 | Yasu , his grandson , succeeded in 1680 and reigned for twenty years , the last effective Emperor at Gondar . |
| 59 | Actress dies : Actress Alexis Smith , who played opposite Clark Gable and Errol Flynn , and appeared for six years in TV soap Dallas , has died in Los Angeles , aged 72 . |
| 60 | I broke down and cried for fifteen minutes . |