Example sentences of "[vb past] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Wild ’ Charlie Mander , the British consul , and Sheriff Felipe Almodovar , the self-styled ‘ Law South of Tierra del Fuego , ’ met for talks in an attempt to reach a settlement , but tempers rose and shots were exchanged . |
| 2 | Khadafi and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak met for talks in February and June to discuss regional issues and ways of increasing co-operation in agriculture , industry , health and telecommunications . |
| 3 | Baker met for talks with a three-member Palestinian delegation led by Faisal al-Husseini , director of the East Jerusalem Institute of Arab Studies , on July 21 . |
| 4 | In December 1990 Chandra Shekhar met for talks with Simranjit Singh Mann , leader of one of the three main Akali Dal factions [ see p. 37915 ] . |
| 5 | Prime Minister John Major and Danish Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen met for talks at 10 Downing Street today on next week 's EC summit in Copenhagen . |
| 6 | ‘ He could have done it beforehand when we met for drinks and everyone 's attention was on Mrs Figgis-Hewett , ’ said Angelina , albeit with a feeling of disloyalty to a fellow female . |
| 7 | If so were the figures I posted for corners etc totally false , or were we like ‘ Cobras with arthritis ’ again ? |
| 8 | Yet other Douglas robber barons continued to indulge in their own intrigues against king and country , in the ‘ almost aimless treachery ’ , as Andrew Lang describes it , which ‘ endured for centuries from the reign of David II to that of James VI ’ . |
| 9 | By an Act of 1922 a pawnbroker could charge a ‘ valuation fee ’ of 1/2d for each 5s lent for pledges under £2 . |
| 10 | And , I applied for loads of jobs and nothing ever came back . |
| 11 | At the end of two years she applied for jobs with various banks and when I met her she had just been accepted as a trainee accounting technician . |
| 12 | The flames from hundreds of eruptions had once furnace-fashioned this valley and left it with rocks precariously dangling on steep hills , scattered warningly across the path , uncertainly wedged , it seemed , against the few huts which passed for homes over an ill-repaired double span of bridge which crossed the stream feeding the lake . |
| 13 | Chips with everything from the leathery slices of roast meat , through the squidgy fish cooked in cardboard batter to the limp arrangements of greenery that passed for salads . |
| 14 | Nobody who read the Bible could legitimately doubt that miracles had once occurred ; the question whether they still did so became for doubters a test of their faith . |
| 15 | ranging from geographic information systems to architectural systems , the first of about 300 Intergraph technical applications slated for Windows NT by the end of 1994 . |
| 16 | If the duty rate per degree of alcohol were raised for wines ( and beers ) and lowered for spirits , the standard rate for all alcoholic drinks , which would maintain the total tax take , would be much closer to the wine rate than the spirits rate . |
| 17 | They rode through Leighton , following the track which skirted the dark mass of Epping Forest and into Woodforde just as the church bell tolled for Nones . |
| 18 | Elinor felt privileged to be one of his girlfriends for she was aware how little he cared for women and how he would sometimes wince when sitting next to one . |
| 19 | The staff sample consisted of all 56 registered nurses on the unit and all 31 medical residents who cared for patients when transfer decisions were made . |
| 20 | I never cared for results never cared for results at all . |
| 21 | I never cared for results never cared for results at all . |
| 22 | They often rode for hours in contented silence , remembering the good years behind them when everything had been simple and summer seemed to last for ever . |
| 23 | In the summers I rode for hours on a white pedal car with a hooter and real spark plugs . |
| 24 | ‘ He had a fantastic brain and could keep you amused for hours — and not just amused . |
| 25 | The anti-Dickson camp chortled for hours in the bar about how the boy ‘ spat the dummy ’ . |
| 26 | As Christ lived for others in his relationships , so we must serve others , not only in marriage , but in all our friendships and other relationships . |
| 27 | and suddenly I mean people lived for centuries there |
| 28 | I lived for months with real friends who loved England and could not get enough to eat from her . |
| 29 | Between the covers , the endpapers are elegant and sepia-tinted : at the front a romantic photograph of Menabilly , the large , elegant house in Cornwall where du Maurier and her family lived for years , and , at the back , a mirroring idyllic picture of du Maurier and her three young children , sitting , in all the innocence of short white socks , on a fallen tree trunk with a wide view of the sea behind them . |
| 30 | She lived for occasions and would not miss one for the world . |