Example sentences of "[noun prp] [coord] [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1811 he won the competition for a complex of buildings in Plymouth consisting of a hotel , assembly rooms , and theatre ; and , his success with this important commission establishing his local reputation , he moved to Plymouth and remained for twenty-five years the leading architect of the neighbourhood . |
| 2 | In 1915 , he enlisted in the RFC and served for the remainder of World War One firstly as a gunner then as a pilot . |
| 3 | In 1878 he arrived in the United States and studied for the Unitarian ministry at Meadville Theological School in Pennsylvania . |
| 4 | ‘ Orme was in the lead as we left Coleraine and headed for Portrush , ’ Robert said afterwards . |
| 5 | It was a strangely anomic creature who strode up to the door of the house of the Frankensteins and rapped for admittance . |
| 6 | I waved to Toby and went for the door . |
| 7 | He was refused entry to Kuwait and asked for asylum in France.President Giscard d'Estaing asked the Shah his views and the Shah made one of the worst mistakes in his reign by agreeing the Khomeini should go to France , He assumed that the obstreperous priest would be les of a threat to him in distant , Christian France than in neighbouring , radical , Islamic country . |
| 8 | So she gave Jamie to a horse dealer called Liz Burt and asked for another in return . |
| 9 | We joined the P and 0 Rampura at Marseilles and sailed for Aden . |
| 10 | Alarmed by the doctor 's message , the Prince immediately took passage on the George Washington and sailed for England . |
| 11 | At 2 p.m. a big KC 135 tanker lifted off from Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington and headed for a mid-air rendezvous with the Eagle at 45,000 feet over the eastern seaboard . |
| 12 | Gandhi wrote to him on 14 February and asked for an interview . |
| 13 | I arrived in England and applied for asylum . |
| 14 | He joined Guinness in 1952 as an Under Brewer and worked for a number of years on 24 hour shifts under the guidance of the late . |
| 15 | As it was we finished a stroke behind Dai Rees and lied for second with Kel Nagle . |
| 16 | ‘ On my way down I sent a message to the sheriff 's office at the Guildhall and asked for two cursitors to make diligent inquiries amongst the taverns and stews along this side of the river . |
| 17 | And so saying , she pushed the jug of lemonade towards Elisabeth and waited for her to speak . |
| 18 | She smiled brightly at Loretta and apologized for the lack of food in the house . |
| 19 | He admitted eight robberies between May and July and asked for two others and six attempted robberies to be taken into consideration . |
| 20 | It might not be in strain-on-your-meat-pies Trideocolor or go on all night like America 's bloody buggering 119 channels , but at least some nice bint like his old French teacher came on at ten-thirty and said good night as you drank your bloody buggering Ovaltine and waited for the shipping forecast . |
| 21 | We crossed into Germany and stopped for the night at a service station between Speyer and Karlsruhe . |
| 22 | Jay played Satie and waited for when Lucy would stop shaking . |
| 23 | She moved to Chelsea and waited for Joyce 's divorce decree to become absolute . |
| 24 | After returning from India he joined Kingstonian and played for Surrey and three times for the Athenian League . |
| 25 | In 1935 they were summoned to Moscow by the Comintern and in April 1937 Neumann was arrested by the NKVD and disappeared for ever . |
| 26 | Colchester police issued a photograph of Lisa and appealed for any sightings of her to be reported . |
| 27 | I went to Brighton and saw for myself the absence of most of the top players due to other events taking place . |
| 28 | She contrasted this unfavourably with the simple needs of the Masai and tried for a while to live on their diet of milk and maize meal . |
| 29 | Purified VLPs and core-like particles ( CLPs ) were diluted to the concentration of 0.1 mg/ml with 50 mM Tris hydrochloride ( pH 8.0 ) — 150 mM NaCl — 5 mM MgCl 2 — 0.5% Nonidet P-40 , 6 µl of anti-VP2 monoclonal antibody was added to each 200 µl of VLPs or CLPs and incubated for 5 h at 5°C . |
| 30 | In 1972 Barnard left the NCC and worked for Airfix , the model company , on producing a version of Filetab that would work on its new Digital Equipment PDP-11 minicomputer . |