Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turned round and slowly headed for home . |
| 2 | Guests will be lawful visitors to those parts of the hotel to which they have been invited , i.e. all public rooms ( lounge , reception , restaurant ) , their bedrooms , conveniences , etc. provided for guests ' use . |
| 3 | What Tully built for Goldney was predictably a piece of safe , oldfashioned Baroque . |
| 4 | Nobody who read the Bible could legitimately doubt that miracles had once occurred ; the question whether they still did so became for doubters a test of their faith . |
| 5 | But they only asked for Eva to be found , not brought home . |
| 6 | Nilsson , firmly entrenched in her seventies , leaves her native Sweden only rarely nowadays and she never much cared for recording studios . |
| 7 | A series of bad falls , a year and a half on the sidelines , and a promising career suddenly headed for oblivion . |
| 8 | Food reflux alone occurred for 17.8+53.2/-13.8% of the recording time . |
| 9 | The thunderous applause after Be My Downfall , a cover of Free 's A Little Bit Of Love and the much shouted for Move Away Jimmy Blue was well deserved . |
| 10 | In 1750 , thanks to his Yorkshire connections , he was appointed as British resident in Brussels , an appointment suddenly revoked for reasons unknown . |
| 11 | Mr Sowerberry , the undertaker in Charles Dickens 's Oliver Twist , was in the middle of the funeral hierarchy , but towards the bottom end as he only catered for parish funerals — that is to say those from the workhouse or those receiving outdoor relief . |
| 12 | He especially thanked for years of hard work , and this was received with strong acclamation . |
| 13 | How would it look if I suddenly disappeared for weeks — leaving a gap that other people would have to fill — because my wife 's grandmother is ill on the other side of the world ? ’ |
| 14 | He stayed in his room and only emerged for meals . |
| 15 | She sipped from her glass of wine and impatiently waited for Simone to speak . |
| 16 | Ever since she had come to Norfolk the skies had been grey , and she suddenly longed for warmth . |
| 17 | I literally jumped for joy when I heard that key turn in the lock and saw Mum and Mrs Taylor enter with another woman . |
| 18 | It only remained for Terence Higgins ( Worthing ) to wrap up Serpell in moth balls , where it will remain until at least after the next election |
| 19 | The DGM thus argued for Banstead to be absolved from the competitive tendering process . |
| 20 | But the tumour continued to grow and she finally opted for surgery and chemotherapy . |
| 21 | Research Triangle Park , North Carolina-based Alphatronix — which just opened for business in Birmingham , West Midlands , has announced what it calls the industry 's first open hierarchical storage management environment . |
| 22 | He gave her his best smile , a greeting he normally reserved for waiters . |
| 23 | They would receive compensation on the same basis as already existed for haemophiliacs thus infected — a scheme announced in November 1989 , confirmed in January 1990 , and extended in December 1990 . |
| 24 | After the latter match there was a flurry of interest in him from Football League clubs and Fred soon signed for Northampton , where he played for seven seasons before moving to Palace in February 1936 . |
| 25 | He straight away plumped for Troon 1962 . |
| 26 | To make a long story short , I finally arranged for Service to record a brief message on tape which was flown to the Yukon and broadcast over loud-speakers during the cinema 's opening ceremonies . |
| 27 | As he reached his door he found his thoughts turning once more to the urgent problem of putting food in his belly , and a part of his mind registered with pleasure that these thoughts were at last supplanting the ones in which he alternately pined for Aset and visited unholy vengeance upon her . |
| 28 | Ian Wilson ( Sunderland ) , already preselected for Barcelona , races in the 200m butterfly , 200m , 400m and 1500m freestyle , and Los Angeles Olympic finalist Samantha Purvis ( Stockton Aquatics ) is in the two women 's butterfly events . |
| 29 | I describe the proceedings here , however , because they raise questions about the willingness of the GMC to protect patients from forms of diagnosis and treatments which have not been sufficiently validated and about its lenient attitude to a doctor who persistently touted for business by attracting the interest of tabloid journalists . |
| 30 | In September of 1155 he finally departed for Germany , to embark upon a further programme of reorganisation in his homeland . |