Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unfinished building stood for several years as a mute witness to their sad state . |
| 2 | A Victorian overstuffed settee went for £340 ; another overstuffed settee made £325 and a mahogany inlaid sideboard £270 . |
| 3 | In the past ministers have been charged with failing to refer mergers which might have been politically sensitive , despite claims that a strong economic case existed for referral . |
| 4 | Instead , their poetry , prose and verse is full of pictures. , He proved much more responsive to Welsh songs and music and , as Gwili 's elder sister sang for him and showed a strong interest in him , he assures Helen that he is ‘ a very harmless fool ’ and that his known views on promiscuity and marriage have not changed . |
| 5 | For the top teams in the group of eight this would mean a total of 40 league games as opposed to the 44 matches which will have to be fulfilled if the 12-club division continued for another season . |
| 6 | Until 1986 Andy caddied for several players , including Gary Player and Bernhard Langer . |
| 7 | was a bottle of of whisky from that distillery went for a huge p price at one of the big |
| 8 | The volume concludes with the first country-house poem published in English , an encomium of the countess 's estate at Cookham , in which the passing of the seasons suggests the ephemerality of patronage relations ; the walks bear ‘ summer Liveries ’ , and the prospect of hills and vales appears to ‘ preferre some strange unlook 'd for sute ’ only as long as their mistress is in residence . |
| 9 | In June 1971 Brezhnev called for mutual naval withdrawals by the Great Powers and he mentioned the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean specifically as regions of interest . |
| 10 | ‘ Nine players in that side appeared for the first team later . |
| 11 | Three youths armed with Armalite pen-knives waited for the band to unload their gear before threatening them and attempting to drive away with their van . |
| 12 | Also , the transfers to and from Labour were spread right across the political spectrum , demonstrating that people of every persuasion find merit in what the Labour candidates stood for . |
| 13 | The anti-Dickson camp chortled for hours in the bar about how the boy ‘ spat the dummy ’ . |
| 14 | Only students of history are conscious of the fact that the Covenanting times lasted for over half a century and that before the end of the period some of the skirmishes were between factions , supposedly on the same side in the conflict . |
| 15 | Another correspondent asked for cheap tracts which she could distribute to the poor as the middle class were already knowledgeable . |
| 16 | Scholars in this field had for some time been engaged in a debate over the importance of acquired and inherited personality traits in behaviour . |
| 17 | And this smell lasted for about half an hour and then , then I could n't smell it again . |
| 18 | Old FF asked for your suggestions for music to scare a heron . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He was apprenticed to Professor Coleman in 1796 when aged 15 , and received his certificate from the College on 30 March 1799 ( for some unknown reason , this certificate disappeared for good that very same evening ) . |
| 21 | The same is true of the Marques de Pombal , who for over a quarter of a century ( 1750–77 ) was virtual ruler of Portugal as all-powerful chief minister of King Joseph I. His efforts to revive the country 's economic life and challenge the dominance which British merchants had for decades wielded over its foreign trade , his ferocious repression of noble opposition , his brutal expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767 ( see p. 454 ) , show a far more truly radical attitude to tradition and established interests than Frederick II displayed . |
| 22 | The fact that human beings do not always perceive the correct ( rigid ) structure when presented with a mathematically adequate though impoverished stimulus , may be due not ( as Ullman suggests ) to their failing to pick up all of the mathematically necessary information in the stimulus , but rather to their using computational strategies evolved for the perception of non-rigid objects which — even when directed at rigid objects — need more information than is present in the experimental stimulus concerned . |
| 23 | Under this division came for years , the name of William Latham as Head Ore Dresser , whose salary was £6 : 0s. : 0d. per month . |
| 24 | The defence thus utilized one side of the ambivalence — the love and high esteem felt for the father — to build a bulwark against the other — the hate and contempt of the father — in order to inhibit the aggressive egoism of males and make them all equally subject to a primal father-figure who for the first time now became fully internalized as a shared superego . |
| 25 | Frankie backed away as the animal 's snarling head and powerful front legs hooked themselves over the top of the gate and her back legs struggled for a foot-hold on the curves of wrought iron . |
| 26 | The Welsh wanted none but valuable prisoners , and had no interest in killing the others , since they would surely leave this place more nimbly and rapidly than the English survivors , and be as inaccessible as the stars by the time another force looked for them . |
| 27 | Thus Mary of Guise and cardinal Beaton fought for the support of lord Gray and lord Ruthven ; Beaton won the first , though in 1548 he came over to Mary ; two years after the cardinal 's death , Mary won the second . |
| 28 | CHRIS EUBANK kept his WBO super-middleweight title by outpointing New Jersey postman Tony Thornton in Glasgow last night — but Eubank 's biggest cheer from the Scottish fans came for his gimmicky leap into the ring before the fight started . |
| 29 | The evidence of this remedy lasted for weeks in circular scars from his shoulders to his waist . |
| 30 | The teenage PODs lived for the moment and their songs , all crash-bang-wallop-bang-crash , reflected this . |