Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She expressed her wonder at this and asked for the name in Italian . |
| 2 | He prepared the altar for Mass , opened the-door and waited for the small trickle of his congregation to enter . |
| 3 | I would have got the answer wrong and plumped for the gin riots . |
| 4 | We 've had four three-legged dogs over the years : Bless-her , who was born with a hind leg missing ; Belle whose front leg was amputated at seven weeks because of a ligament problem ; Tulley , a road accident victim who came to us at nine months old and fought for 18 months to keep his damaged front leg . |
| 5 | Children employed by such as William Douglas at his cotton mill in Salford were often taken from the workhouse at six or seven years old and worked for long hours , and were sometimes so ill-treated that they committed suicide . |
| 6 | However , Gunda struggled free and ran for her life ; but the giant set Wolfhead on her and the dog pulled her down and began mauling her . |
| 7 | He seemed embarrassed and stammered for the first time in his English . |
| 8 | I went back into the club proper and headed for the ‘ phone . |
| 9 | If they were assertive and asked for what they wanted rather than ‘ manipulated ’ , they would in many cases be more successful . |
| 10 | On the first day of a two-day visit to the United Kingdom , de Klerk saw the UK Prime Minster , John Major , on April 22 and appealed for help in winning investment . |
| 11 | Craig hurried up the stairs as the knocking became more insistent and paused for a moment staring back to the hallway . |
| 12 | Farther round the arc was the Soviet incursion into Afghanistan , which began in 1979 and lasted for most of 10 years , despite resistance by the Mujahedin . |
| 13 | As we know , the committee decided to ignore that last objective in 1991 and plumped for five countries , a decision which left those playing in France out in the cold . |
| 14 | The first one was still exploding through my cortex as I gulped the second and reached for the third . |
| 15 | On the other hand , in Joseph Hone 's W.B. Yeats , 1865–1939 ( 1942 , p.367 ) we read that the Yeatses went to Sicily in November 1924 and stayed for two months , ‘ the attraction there being , besides the sunlight , the presence of Ezra Pound on the island , and the Byzantine mosaics of Monreale and the Capella Palatina at Palermo ’ . |
| 16 | It 's just a question of whether the two of them set off home together or whether he left early and waited for her . " |
| 17 | There are 50 items , grouped into 5 blocks of 10 and graded for difficulty . |
| 18 | In real time , Peter worked out , Emor began towards the end of 1963 and flourished for nearly two years . |
| 19 | Mr Timms resigned but Mr Cooke denied he had been dishonest and stayed for two years until he was fired in August last year . |
| 20 | Some of the modem homes are too clinical , impersonal and routinized for comfort . |
| 21 | The defendants admitted the validity of the will of 30 June 1978 but contended that the deceased had duly executed a further testamentary paper being a first codicil on 18 April 1986 and counterclaimed for the pronouncement in solemn form for the codicil . |
| 22 | ‘ I was very upset and felt for those players who played , ’ Durie said . |
| 23 | The microtitre plates were washed thoroughly with PBS-Tween and incubated for another 30 minutes with alkaline-phospatase ( ALP ) conjungated rabbit anti-human γ chain or rabbit anti human α chain antisera ( Dako , Glostrup , Denmark ) diluted 1:400 in PBS-Tween . |
| 24 | Every file , every data sheet on the exiles and émigrés who 'd caused trouble over the past thirty years was computerized and collated for him . |
| 25 | Nigel gave up all belief in things occult after that and asked for his money back . |
| 26 | She swallowed hard and waited for the ringing in her head to clear and for the room to steady once more , then , summoning all of her courage , she looked at him with icy contempt . |
| 27 | Plummer swallowed hard and froze for long seconds . |
| 28 | He swallowed hard and headed for the door that opened out into the hall . |
| 29 | At five hundred feet he banked hard and headed for the balloons . |
| 30 | The conversation broke off sharply when he became edgy and scrambled for cover , telling her to go away . |