Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sanderson Townsend & Gilbert and Healey & Baker acted for the vendor , while Lowther Scott Harden acted for Southlands . |
| 2 | No trace of the plage de l'Arsenal , where Camus glimpsed for the first time the beauty of the Mediterranean . |
| 3 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt , Herbert C Hoover , Harry S Truman , James Abram Garfield and several others , were all regaled in song long before Sinatra and Monroe began serenading Kennedy or Streisand warbled for saxman Clinton . |
| 4 | Now the winter salon at Saracen , where Elinor waited for Adam , was not only the coolest but the most impressive room in the château . |
| 5 | At last they came to a clearing , where Vic headed for a mossy log . |
| 6 | In 1992 Olympia & York filed for protection from its creditors . |
| 7 | Top : Paul , Albert and Ralph this year , when Olympia & York filed for bankruptcy protection in America |
| 8 | Later , under cover of darkness , they crept into the house , where Charles hid for the night in the attic . |
| 9 | Seeing Laura dressed for school brought tears to her mother 's eyes . |
| 10 | It was Bavaria that provided the Catholic leadership of the Counter-Reformation in Germany , yet as we have seen the young Lassus was capable of composing not only Masses approved by the reforming cardinals but others in flagrant disregard of everything that Trent stood for ( see p. 245 ) . |
| 11 | The viola parts of the airs de monologue that begin Acts 1 and 3 of Hippolyte ( Aricie 's ‘ Temple sacré , séjour tranquille ’ and Phèdre 's ‘ Cruelle mere des amours ’ ) are wholly editorial , though there is no evidence that Rameau wished for fuller textures : d'Indy 's viola supplies no essential harmony but largely doubles notes in other parts . |
| 12 | There can be little doubt that Nizan departed for the Soviet Union in January 1934 in a crusading spirit . |
| 13 | Now she was asleep , her fists clenched and her hair half-way into a quarter-eaten plate of spaghetti , so Haverford called for il doloroso and to his daughter 's surprise pulled money out of a back pocket , new ten thousand lire notes . |
| 14 | The sort of ‘ sweeping , wrenching change in national economic govern-ance ’ that Stockman yearned for is the stuff of utopian dreams and has little to do with the realities of American politics . |
| 15 | Soft music filled Helen 's rooms , and she and Edward looked so happy that Sophie rejoiced for them . |
| 16 | The die had been cast , and all that Germany stood for — admirable as well as abominable-entered into his soul . |
| 17 | And so it was all along the line , from Telnitz in the south , right the way to the Olmütz road , where the plain rose into the foothills of the mountains to the north ; and after he had disappeared into the tumult and light , neither Thiercelin nor Epitot spoke for a long time . |
| 18 | There were only four fights , proper fights , that is , one house burned — and that was an accident that Ewan apologised for most handsomely next day — nobody killed , and just six men what you might call damaged . |
| 19 | It is understood that GGT pitched for the company 's media business as early as last August , without LH-S ' knowledge , and the decision to move the account was taken before Christmas . |
| 20 | The West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List allocates him a reign of three years , with one variant reading of two , but Bede also says that Caedwalla reigned for two years before his abdication in 688 ( HE IV , 12 : V , 7 ) ( see also above , p. 51 ) . |
| 21 | They moved to a flat in Kensington that Ken financed for them — to the point that he made Carry On Regardless solely to recoup some of his losses . |
| 22 | This year 's winners of the NatWest Trophy will receive a record £27,500 prize — around £5,000 more than Pakistan collected for beating England in the World Cup final — because the total prize-money has increased to £73,350 . |
| 23 | Charles Cooper , also there for the Justice Department , remembered that North paused for a moment , silent , before he responded . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , it was no more than Scotland deserved for perseverance , and a fitting punishment for the obstinate Maltese when Nevin squeezed in a third goal in the 85th minute to ensure Scotland 's opening victory of this World Cup campaign . |
| 25 | It is easy in the quest for grave scholarly judgements to forget that Leapor wrote for pleasure . |
| 26 | It was as the pair of them were passing through the doorway into the hall that Jake turned for a moment to catch Shiona 's eye . |
| 27 | Tyson 's lawyer Alan Dershowitz will claim that Washington tested for VD four weeks before meeting Tyson . |
| 28 | The site was secured towards the end of 1858 , and work began immediately to adapt the existing buildings to accommodate the rows of big glass bolthead flasks that Nicholson favoured for the preparations . |
| 29 | In the output equation the unpredictable monetary growth variables do have a significant , positive effect on real output , although the impacts of and are less significant than Barro found for the US . |
| 30 | It was to the Scottish firm of Hurst Nelson of Motherwell that Blackpool turned for its next batch of cars in 1902 . |