Example sentences of "for [pron] [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Birkenhead-born Swain , who tasted life at the top as a player with Chelsea , Nottingham Forest and Aston Villa , said : ‘ Relegation is a terrible feeling for everyone involved and it wo n't go away until the first game of the season . |
| 2 | This book is a must for everyone involved or interested in course management and aficionados of the history of the game in this country . |
| 3 | You do seem to enjoy watching nude bathers , so do n't you think it would be much better for everyone involved if you went somewhere where they did n't mind being watched ? ’ |
| 4 | Among the companies which have threatened to cut their operations in the country , or to pull out altogether , are Shell , Dow Chemicals , and the Dutch division of Hoechst , a spokesman for whom said that it would consider moving to " Kazakhstan — where pollution really is a problem " . |
| 5 | The turning point for them came when their car broke down after a family christening . |
| 6 | The turning point for me came after scum had been one fo the chosen matches for about 8 weeks in succession , then one evening it seemed they were nt . |
| 7 | The high point of the whole trip for me came when seven of us trekked into the mountains to spend the night by a waterfall . |
| 8 | The turning point for me came when the French were coming at us , guns blazing and big Marc Cecillon was roaring towards our our line with the ball in his hands . |
| 9 | A difficult moment for me occurred when Phil Collins came on the show , simply because what I knew but he did n't , was that he was going to be my first guest on This Is Your Life the following week . |
| 10 | Although he was promoted to begin his search for Troy because of an obscure literary reference to the lost city , he was at heart doing the same thing as modern detectorists ; albeit , some might say , at a more scholarly level — searching for something lost and using his wits to find it . |
| 11 | When we took the step we did last May , we did n't desert the Tory Party , we rebelled against it and I for one said that I would go back in the fullness of time , I just hoped I could go back with something to show for it . |
| 12 | The crowd had parted to let them through , and Kathleen 's fear for herself vanished as she took in the scene . |
| 13 | The Cockney porter who had smuggled in a bottle of booze for him said that one of them liked to satisfy herself with the aid of bottle necks . |
| 14 | But this , this bloke has sort of said , ooh he said , apparently one of the blokes that were working for him said that he had overheard him saying they were gon na burn the coach out . |
| 15 | The ‘ Diamond Dogs ’ tour that followed was an enormous amount of work for everybody involved and in some ways , it began to break down . |
| 16 | She had believed him even now , even after what had happened and was happening , when he had said that his love for her remained as it had ever been , something eternal . |
| 17 | The firmness of the French reaction was probably inevitable , given the circumstances , but it was also highly dangerous for it meant that if and when Bismarck sought to provoke France he knew that he had exactly the cause he needed . |
| 18 | This was a shrewd move on his part for it meant that he not only had the blessing , and guidance , of the College , but also avoided their censure . |
| 19 | But it is his run at Ayr last April which puts him in the picture for it showed that he had no trouble with a marathon trip as he stayed on strongly to beat Dalkey Sound carrying 11 stone in the Scottish National . |
| 20 | It provides a resource and information service for anyone involved or interested in language teaching from schools , further and higher education , teacher education , industry and the community in general . |
| 21 | The biggest excitement of the war for us happened when an aeroplane came down on the hill above Clove Lodge , which is just across the valley from Low Birk Hatt . |