Example sentences of "for [noun prp] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1885 Brunner became Liberal MP for Northwich and held the seat , with one short break , until he resigned in 1909 . |
| 2 | Next morning she went and reported him to the foreman , who sent for Jim and asked ‘ What 's this woman on about ? ’ . |
| 3 | I held the staircase door open for Lisabeth and said : ‘ You first . ’ |
| 4 | Simon Brown hit 59 for Rainhill , while Peter Hodgson scored 45 for Ainsdale and took 4–53 . |
| 5 | My brother-in-law was working for ICI and liked the company . |
| 6 | Mr. F.W. Dee ( Company Secretary at the Brewery and brother to found Harry Dee ) had been down to play for Henley but had to withdraw ‘ having arranged to play for Peppard ’ . |
| 7 | He made just 20 League appearances for Orient but had already done enough to convince Wednesday to splash out £350,000 for his services last November , quite a sum for a player who was just 17 at the time . |
| 8 | A contingent headed for Plymouth and met their first serious resistance at Trematon Castle by Saltash , held for the King by Sir Richard Grenville . |
| 9 | DeFries made a lot of career decisions for David that worked , but suddenly decisions , desires to do things , were coming between the two of them , so there was a clash on whose decision was going to win and whose idea was going to win . |
| 10 | UMWA women recently held a birthday party for Roberts and presented him with a plaque engraved with his now famous quote . |
| 11 | ‘ It will be said and believed that you lay in wait for Aldhelm and killed him , so that he could never point the finger at you . ’ |
| 12 | Barrow , the former Liphook all-rounder , wants to continue playing Minor Counties cricket for Berkshire and felt it was in his interests to join a division one side . |
| 13 | Rain thought this unusually malicious for Wainfleet and wondered what could possibly be behind it . |
| 14 | ‘ She said , ‘ This is what love is for — I 'm coming over , ’ and she set off for Rocamar and arrived at breakfast next day . ’ |
| 15 | Ally Donaldson kicked two penalty goals for Currie and converted a late try by Dean Mack . |
| 16 | The writers , Norman Hudis and Talbot Rothwell ( who took over from Hudis with Carry on Cabby ) wrote for Ken and knew exactly which part would be his . |
| 17 | The others had potential , but I bathed and groomed her as if for Crufts and made my way to the hospital . |
| 18 | Draw they did , but goallessly , a result that did nothing for Maidenhead but lifted Cambridge to sixth place , writes Pat Rowley . |
| 19 | Draw they did , but goallessly , a result that did nothing for Maidenhead but lifted Cambridge to sixth place , writes Pat Rowley . |
| 20 | By command of The Queen , the Lord Reay ( Lord in Waiting ) was present at Royal Air Force Northolt this afternoon upon the departure of The Duke of Gloucester for Portugal and bade farewell to His Royal Highness on behalf of Her Majesty . |
| 21 | Although he trained with the England A team during the winter and felt optimistic , he was in pain again before he left for Portugal and looked on the tour as a ‘ make-or-break ’ exercise . |
| 22 | In London , Lachlan worked as an architect while Annie made silks and tartans for Harrods and designed fashion fabric collections for Jasper Conran , Katherine Hammnet and Paul Smith . |
| 23 | Almost immediately Smith had an excellent chance for Arsenal but stumbled . |
| 24 | Swart was selected for Transvaal but withdrew voluntarily until he tests clean . |
| 25 | President Fidel Castro Ruz in his address to the conference again ruled out a multiparty political system for Cuba and stressed that the encouragement of inward investment did not mean the end of the country 's brand of state-led communism . |
| 26 | Yesterday 's figures were for February and did not include recent huge job losses at Rolls-Royce . |
| 27 | He fought for Orkney and won it , against men just like Siward . |
| 28 | In the very short space of ten seasons Mains played a hundred games for Otago and had begun a steady succession of matches in All Black trials . |
| 29 | On Aug. 23 fears of a power struggle heightened when the Katanga Gendarmes , a secessionist movement based in Angola , declared their support for Nguza and said that they were awaiting his orders to begin military operations in the country . |
| 30 | On my next visit to Southampton I tried in vain for a chat with the young man who had just won a match for Hampshire and deserved to bask in a discreet amount of praise . |