Example sentences of "[vb past] for [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sarah schemed for several weeks before daring to put forward a proposal . |
| 2 | It would n't be an exaggeration to say I lived for that owl during that very intense period of training . |
| 3 | For instance , this year there will be a film marking the centenary of Leo Walmsley , the novelist who lived for many years at Robin Hood 's Bay . |
| 4 | He lived for many years at Brockham , Betchworth , Surrey , and died there 10 April 1935 . |
| 5 | I lived for many years in the north of England . |
| 6 | Never married , Lottie Dod lived for many years in London before moving to Milford-on-Sea . |
| 7 | Bottcher Strawalde is an artist who lived for several decades in the shadow of the Berlin Wall ( the film was discovered or rediscovered by Parisians a month ago at the Jeu de Paume ) . |
| 8 | In order to observe this and to try to understand something of what life in the movement was like at first hand — and , of course , to try to observe the operation of sociological variables such as social control — I lived for several periods of a week or so , over a span of six years , in Unification centres and participated in various of their functions . |
| 9 | Some lived for several days in this pitiful condition , their feet gnawed by dogs , until they died in agony . |
| 10 | He was a brilliant scholar , and lived for some time at ‘ Titeup Hall , ’ Dalton . |
| 11 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 12 | But the fact remains that Panaetius lived for some time in Rome , as the Index Stoicorum Herculanensis , an excellent source , states ( 73 ) ; and there seems to be no reason to doubt the statement of Cicero in Pro Murena that he was the guest of Scipio ( 31.56 ) . |
| 13 | The late Miss Pepper , who lived for some years at The Bield , spoke of the ‘ throwing up ’ of fleeces during clipping to a helper on the gallery . |
| 14 | The story of Hereward was later popularised by the novelist Charles Kingsley ( 1819–1875 ) , who lived for some years at Barnack Rectory , about four miles to the south-east of Stamford . |
| 15 | And all the time you were n't really there , you were somewhere else entirely , and the funniest part of it was that you ended up looking like a pro , like a model who lived for these moments in the public eye . |
| 16 | He asked for that camera for his birthday this year . ’ |
| 17 | On May 13th , after days of heavy selling by the markets — and heavy buying by Spain 's central bank — the government suspended its obligation to defend the peseta , and asked for another realignment of the system . |
| 18 | She asked for some answers to specific points . |
| 19 | When the pope asked for some sign by which he could tell ‘ which requests are important to us and are dear to our heart , and which are not ’ , Edward indicated early in the new year that he would mark such requests with the words Pater Sancte , written in his own hand , but he promised that these requests would be employed with restraint — ‘ only as we can and ought ’ . |
| 20 | The bank asked for some security for this amount and the defendant promised by letter to charge certain goods and to pay the proceeds thereof to the bank against the overdraft . |
| 21 | Only querulous pupils and awkward governors at interviews asked for some justification for studying it . |
| 22 | Erm now councillor and I asked for this matter to be brought to this chamber because erm we felt that the matter w was important enough that all members of this council should have an opportunity to debate it . |
| 23 | What we do know is that I M R O asked for this information in June nineteen eighty-eight and not long afterwards I M R O granted recognition to B I M and other Maxwell Companies , all the more surprising perhaps having raised the questions whether the question must come about , did they continue with their investigation , or did they let the matter drop and perhaps you might to comment in that context . |
| 24 | The Ministry of Supply asked for any kind of bone except the backbone of a kipper . |
| 25 | At the outset we asked for more help from the congregation . |
| 26 | The US Federal Trade Commission is reviewing a new staff report on the anti-trust allegations against Microsoft Corp , but a decision on the matter probably is still weeks away , lawyers familiar with the case told the Wall Street Journal : with a two-to-two vote in February , the commission did n't accept staff recommendations to seek an injunction preventing the company from using its market power to engage in allegedly unfair competitive practices ; after the tied vote , the commissioners asked for more information in an effort to resolve the deadlock ; the status report , which was delivered to commissioners last week , provides additional support for the staff 's call for action . |
| 27 | The travellers were trying to get into a rock festival at Long Marston airfield near Stratford on Avon planned for this weekend.Roads around the site were blocked by the travellers as they confronted the police for most of the night . |
| 28 | I fought for them two , to get that home for her , so I said no , the only way you 'll do it , and I , when she were on her own , I said , not that I do n't trust Nigel , I do , but you do n't know what 's gon na happen in ten , in ten years time , I said I fought for that house for you , if you exchange it , you exchange it in your name |
| 29 | We can not as readers see this as a fault , since it made for such richness of scene and mood , though Marryat seems to have felt it so . |
| 30 | According to H. B. Schiefer , a toxicologist at the University of Saskatchewan , Canadians at the meeting argued for more studies of the alleged victims . |