Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On rehearsal , when our cue came through , we heard him say ‘ I am a sea-gull at the Port of Vancouver ’ instead of the ‘ Fitzpatrick Travelogue ’ script agreed on for this part of the show . |
| 2 | The king 's son mounted his horse again , and they rode on for seven days , until they came to the islands of the Black Sea , where there is such darkness that a spoon might stand up in it . |
| 3 | The fusion reaction has in fact technically been achieved at the Princeton Tokomak fusion test reactor which operated successfully for 50 milliseconds . |
| 4 | Although cylinder manufacturers countered effectively for some decades , first with moulding techniques and later with finer grooves , the overwhelming simplicity of being able to press thousands of copies of disc records and play them on a simple machine eventually told in the disc 's favour . |
| 5 | We found a neat village south of Peterlee called Elwick , complete with tree-decked , green , Tabatha Twitchet shop and two super pubs , where we lived uneasily for three years . |
| 6 | ‘ I feel that the trading standards officers have exceeded their authority by requiring Mr Wilson to conform with standards laid down for new stations and not established premises . ’ |
| 7 | The government linked the cuts with the need to contain public spending in order to meet the economic convergence criteria laid down for European Community economic and monetary union [ see p. 38658 ] . |
| 8 | L 379 , p. 1 ) , according to which the levying of any customs duty or charge having equivalent effect and the application of any quantitative restriction or measure having equivalent effect were prohibited in the internal trade of the Community ; ( c ) article 8(1) of that Regulation , which , as regards the payment of an indemnity to producers who were not members of a producers ' organisation , provided that such an indemnity was to be granted without discrimination as to the nationality or place of establishment of the recipients ; ( d ) article 27(2) of that Regulation , which laid down for all fishing vessels flying the flag of one of the member states the principle of equal access to ports and first-stage marketing installations in the other member states ; ( e ) article 5(2) of Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 170/83 , which authorised the member states to determine the detailed rules for the utilisation of the quotas allocated to them , in accordance with the applicable Community provisions ; and ( f ) article 13(2) of Council Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 3094/86 laying down certain technical measures for the conservation of fishery resources ( Official Journal 1986 No . |
| 9 | The main change is that the periods laid down for these notices are now in days instead of hours : two days notice is required for the commencement of building works . |
| 10 | Another important change is that the time periods laid down for these notices do not commence until the end of the day in which notice is given . |
| 11 | A startling 24 failed to meet standards laid down for public water supplies . |
| 12 | Although the flats are very compact , generally following the standards laid down for this type of housing in DoE Design Bulletin 29 , they share the facilities of a jetty on to the river , and a roof-top conservatory and roof garden , all of which were made possible by a £200,000 grant from the Historic Buildings Council . |
| 13 | It was really a good play , ha , and it was done so well , and you were so close to it as well , you got in for two pounds , best thing I 've ever seen . |
| 14 | But I am trying to work out when I can walk Paul Buttle 's circuit of the Lakes , devised especially for Outdoor Action . |
| 15 | It is the house that your father lived in for fifteen years . |
| 16 | In 1918 he met the painter Arthur Lett-Haines ( 1894–1978 ) , and despite other liaisons the two lived together for sixty years until Haines 's death in 1978 . |
| 17 | My lover and I lived together for eight years and then when we got rid of the greengrocer 's shop , he ‘ went back to mother ’ . |
| 18 | T. Behrens 's book commemorates a young couple who lived together for seventeen years in a solitude à deux and who then took their own lives — incompetently and lingeringly . |
| 19 | They lived together for four years , and then two years ago they broke up . |
| 20 | Happily they lived together for several weeks , until Killigrew told his young bride that duty called him to town . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The review was triggered when the US Environmental Protection Agency confirmed its intention to ban further use of maneb , mancozeb and zineb on most foods because the fungicides , used widely for 40 years , have been strongly linked with cancer . |
| 23 | The generation of power from nuclear fission , generating intense radioactivity , has been developed and used commercially for several decades to meet part of the world demand for electrical energy . |
| 24 | I phoned down for some eggs , toast and a quart of coffee . |
| 25 | One Midlands wine wholesaler was ordered to clear dust from a warehouse floor used only for cased goods , the association said . |
| 26 | • Hundreds of original , flavour-tested recipes , each created especially for this series . |
| 27 | Once more , however , they provided only for small numbers and their success even in establishing this few in permanent work or independence appears to have been small . |
| 28 | Small farms were assigned to sons of noblemen and promising warriors , on condition they reported annually for military service . |
| 29 | At the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village eight cops moved in for another raid on a gay bar . |
| 30 | James Thomas Knowles senior and his son James Thomas Knowles junior entered separately for all parts of the competition with designs in an eclectic manner . |