Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | After a confident start United took the lead in the 17th minute when the elusive Thornley centred for Butt to rifle home a first time shot . |
| 3 | A BRITISH television war loomed last night when the Scottish FA called for a black-out of England 's pre-season glamour game on Saturday . |
| 4 | Colorado-based Miniscribe filed for bankruptcy protection in January 1990 when it emerged that its senior management had carried out a massive fraud . |
| 5 | An announcement by Argentina 's President Carlos Menem rescinding a planned threefold hike in the duties on paper imported for book production was greeted with delight by hundreds of publishers and other book professionals from all over Latin America gathered for the official opening ceremony of the 19th Buenos Aires International Book Fair on 16th April . |
| 6 | An embarrassed Ford apologised for the blunder and announced that The Fugitive will be premiered in Britain on September 23 . |
| 7 | This comes out well in The Short Guide to Electioneering , a pamphlet Quintus Cicero wrote for his brother , the Cicero , when he was standing for consul in 63 BC . |
| 8 | ‘ When Maeve was taken , ’ said Grainne , and those nearest noted that she did not falter over the name , ‘ when Maeve was taken , the huge and fearsome Gateway to the Dark Ireland opened for a time . |
| 9 | Both brothers were dressed in neatly tailored white tuxedos and black ties in preparation for the formal reception being given in their father 's honour at the palace of the governor of Cochin-China , and it was Chuck who had insisted that they travel separately by pousse-pousse rather than in the official Citron sent for their parents . |
| 10 | The traditionally Muslim peoples of Central Asia accounted for a further 15 per cent ; and the balance was made up for the most part of the larger national groups in Transcaucasia and the Baltic . |
| 11 | The Civic Democratic Party was reported as favouring a continued federal structure , while the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia argued for a confederation of two sovereign states each of which would be a separate legal entity in international law . |
| 12 | Encouraged by these circumstances , the disorders of early June continued for some days . |
| 13 | Later orators were to castigate the Athenian Assembly for making alliances with any state which offered itself , and it is hard to see what good Athens hoped for from Segesta in 457 . |
| 14 | Now activate the automatic DC created for you ( Option 2.4.0 ) . |
| 15 | Both single strands , the homologous SSB and the complementary SSA competed for binding of the protein to the SSB probe . |
| 16 | Henry II 's mistress , is told by CD in A Child 's History of England : ‘ It relates how the King doted on fair Rosamond … and how he had a beautiful Bower built for her in a Park at Woodstock ; and how it was erected in a labyrinth , and could only be found by a clue of silk . |
| 17 | ( Later advice in the Dictionary suggested budding on the robust Frankfurt Rose for greater strength . ) |
| 18 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 19 | Jamaica-bound … the first consignment of second-hand Ladas destined for an island paradise . |
| 20 | Wasps ran the ball back and , though losing the line-out , the quick-thinking Davies dropped for goal to snatch the most unlikely of victories . |
| 21 | When the surviving Romanovs asked for the house where the Tsar was killed to be turned into a museum , Yeltsin and his Politburo colleagues had it demolished . |
| 22 | The 16 members of the Economic Community of West African States gathered for their 13th summit in Banjul ( The Gambia ) on May 28-30 . |
| 23 | The US , which is paying about $4 million for each missile , rightly points out , and sometimes ruefully , that the nations of Western Europe asked for the weapon to be deployed in the first place . |
| 24 | Genuinely frightened by their fear , little Louisa had rushed after them and sat trembling beside Lettice in the skiff while young Henry rowed for all he was worth . |
| 25 | A tearful Hawke called for continued efforts to achieve full reconciliation between Australians and the indigenous Aboriginal community . |
| 26 | At the press conference to announce the huge Packer-Goldsmith bit for BAT in 1989 , Packer was the brooding presence in the background as Goldsmith fielded questions . |
| 27 | He encouraged us also to get more involved in equine matters , considering the potential Ireland had for such things . |
| 28 | For were not the brothels and whorehouses of Panama City and pre-revolutionary Havana developed for the most part for the benefit of American troops ? |
| 29 | He formed no partnership with Wakelin : that the childless Wickes reserved for his protégé , Samuel Netherton , in 1750 . |