Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | put the contrary view in the form of a dilemma when he said : ‘ Either they were performing this public duty in giving the protection asked for , in which case I think they can not charge , or , which no one suggests , they were at the request of an individual doing something which it was not their duty to do , in which case it seems to me both public policy and section 10 of the County Police Act 1839 , make the contract illegal and void . ’ |
| 2 | This cloak was the principal relic of the west Frankish kings of Neustria , and wherever the Neustrian kings were , it went with them to adorn whatever building became for the time being the royal chapel . |
| 3 | As it was , however , no suitable opportunity arose for me to gain such information . |
| 4 | But what impressed most viewers of the deliberations at Thomond Park was the crisp passing of the Garrowen backs when the opportunity arose for spreading the ball wide , something that does n't often occur in local derbies at Thomond Park . |
| 5 | Whenever an opportunity arose for him to spike evidence or arguments favourable to the defence , he did not hesitate to do so , even at one choleric moment telling Nicky not to be stupider than he was ; and his summing-up was a summing-up for the prosecution . |
| 6 | But they 're all the same so that if you are er with which is the medical side and an opportunity arose for some other reason for you to transfer to another group we have n't got to retrain you . |
| 7 | In July 1947 , the Ministry asked for a statement concerning the hospital premises and funds . |
| 8 | Committee meetings had taken place at fortnightly intervals ever since early in the nineteenth century , but now , in view of the fact that there was a war on , the local government board asked for the meetings to be held monthly , a suggestion that was accepted with alacrity . |
| 9 | The police driver asked for her documents but the woman explained , with a pleasant smile that they were at her home nearby . |
| 10 | The twenty-nine year old victim was standing at a bus stop on Haddington Road when a car pulled up and the driver asked for directions . |
| 11 | The defence asked for reporting restriction to be lifted . |
| 12 | The defence asked for reporting restriction to be lifted . |
| 13 | The clerk behind the hatch asked for their empties before she 'd hand over the new bottles but they had n't got them . |
| 14 | The anti-Dickson camp chortled for hours in the bar about how the boy ‘ spat the dummy ’ . |
| 15 | If he fixed a price with the buyer , and the buyer asked for Modigliani 's address , the painter was likely to give away his work at a lower price or offer it as a present if the purchaser was shrewd enough to take him out for a meal and a few drinks . |
| 16 | The buyer asked for a copy of the restrictions ; they were not forthcoming , the seller having no copy . |
| 17 | One branch asked for a dispensation . |
| 18 | Quite what the taxpayer got for the extra money is not readily apparent . |
| 19 | Another correspondent asked for cheap tracts which she could distribute to the poor as the middle class were already knowledgeable . |
| 20 | Today at the appeal court his counsel asked for his prison term to be reduced , saying it was a bad case , but not the worst case . |
| 21 | Money at short notice is money lent for up to fourteen days . |
| 22 | The board flickered for a second or two , then slowly faded until it was gone , and Quiss was left sitting looking angrily at the small wooden table . |
| 23 | The statutory recognition of auditors ' resignation occurred for the first time in the Companies Act 1976 , prior to which resignation would have constituted a de facto breach of contract . |
| 24 | But when they cast off Penry seemed reassuringly unconcerned , and sang under his breath as the Angharad headed for the turbulent stretch of sea separating Gullholm from the coast . |
| 25 | In fact , such was the sheer awesomeness of Mr Wilson 's fury that , as one person , the whole assembled mass headed for the door at top speed . |
| 26 | Worried managers made the decision after the computer crashed for the second time in 10 days . |
| 27 | The other had gone for the Wood but had entered well away from the large conifer Werewolf headed for . |
| 28 | The car skidded for what seemed like an eternity and the lady driver coming the other way did her best to stop , but we collided head on . |
| 29 | The previous chapter argued for a conception of music which maintains both the relative autonomy of its techniques and its ultimately social meaning , and which sees these as constructed within a historical dialectic . |
| 30 | THE girl allegedly abandoned by Senator Edward Kennedy in the Chappaquiddick car tragedy lived for two hours afterwards , it is claimed . |