Example sentences of "it [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It failed for the simple reason that no coherent principles or policies came forward to replace the old ones . |
| 2 | A proposal for the reform of the Italian railway network advocated the dismissal of the board if it failed for two years running to achieve performance targets ( Santoro 1985 ) , and the Spanish Socialist government has similarly toyed with the idea of sacking unsuccessful chairmen ( Tamames 1983 : 371 ) . |
| 3 | Calday Grange Grammar School also faced a second ballot over opting out after it applied for grant-maintained status last year . |
| 4 | The Company 's Pest Control service covering Norfolk and Suffolk has moved from Norwich where it operated for over 30 years . |
| 5 | He dropped the letter on to his desk where it fluttered for a moment , an innocent reminder of the arrangement made in that grey stone house in Ghent . |
| 6 | It fluttered for a moment and then folded right back against the fuselage , like a roosting bird . |
| 7 | AS GOOD as it got for the deranged Los Angeles combo . |
| 8 | The coroner heard it revealed for the first time — none of the family knew it — that Charlie had had a stroke a few months before , which explained the strange behaviour . |
| 9 | It planned for a more open democracy to include a revision of " anti-terrorism " legislation and improvements in the field of human rights , media censorship and academic freedom . |
| 10 | That assessment has only to be read to indicart to indicate what it fortended for future success in her chosen career . |
| 11 | It asked for and received the help of the ruler of the Hohenstaufen ( Germanic ) Empire , Frederik 1 , known as Barbarossa ( ‘ Red Beard ’ ) who crossed the Alps and attacked Milan . |
| 12 | Mick began , then paused where it asked for the name of the vehicle 's owner . |
| 13 | It did not say that the BBC wanted an experienced journalist' : it asked for relevant experience . |
| 14 | And it asked for the Scottish Office Guidelines , and those in Lord Justice Butler-Sloss 's Cleveland Report , to be made law . |
| 15 | It asked for their support in getting the law changed , and the guidelines strengthened by law . |
| 16 | It asked for powers to use animal or electric traction and trams or motor buses . |
| 17 | I 've given it all the information it asked for , now let it give me my money . ‘ |
| 18 | He hesitated only briefly before he said , ‘ Because it asked for a reservation I have no wish to make . |
| 19 | It asked for interest rates to be lowered even further . |
| 20 | When the Society heard in July 1861 that the Board was to remove the Bondgate bubbler the cattle fountain that was turning the highway to mire it asked for permission to replace it . |
| 21 | ICI , which had set itself a target of recovering 10 per cent of the CFCs it manufactured for use in cooling systems , has blamed lack of co-operation from local councils , industry and commerce for its failure to recover more than 1 per cent . |
| 22 | Rye stood out from most other towns in that it became for a while a Puritan ‘ Common Wealth ’ , a centre of social experiment and rigorous public morality under its two vicars , Joseph Beeton and his successor John Allen . |
| 23 | No matter how hard the Provincial champions tried to eat into the massive margin the worse it became for them . |
| 24 | The guide price for Cradley was £1.75m , and market sources believe it sold for about £1.9m , suggesting a yield less than 4.5% . |
| 25 | A design for a tapestry by Rubens set a record when it sold for £748,000 . |
| 26 | He put the Old Rectory at Stoney Stanton , Blaby , Leicestershire , on the market for £325,000 in 1990 but it sold for £239,000 — a 25 per cent drop . |
| 27 | At Sotheby 's on 14 December the most energetic competition greeted Giulio Romano 's deftly drawn head of an eagle with several British dealers as well as a telephone bidder competing for the prize ; it sold for £16,000 ( $25,040 ) to Colnaghi ( with London dealer Thomas Williams providing the underbidding ) against an estimate of £5–7,000 . |
| 28 | Initially knocked down for $160,000 , a bidding dispute led to its immediate reappearance where it sold for $50,000 ( £31,250 ) . |
| 29 | It sold for £23,000 ( $34,500 ) . |
| 30 | Estimated at £20–30,000 , it sold for £32,000 ( $48,000 ) . |