Example sentences of "[vb past] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Sudeley ( Glos. ) , for instance , which Gloucester held between 1469 and 1478 , the key offices went to John Huddleston junior of Millom , initiating a family connection with the county which endured for several generations . |
| 2 | At Sudeley ( Glos. ) , for instance , which Gloucester held between 1469 and 1478 , the key offices went to John Huddleston junior of Millom , initiating a family connection with the county which endured for several generations . |
| 3 | This I endured for several months , having no spirit even to complain . |
| 4 | Sarah schemed for several weeks before daring to put forward a proposal . |
| 5 | Words that are longer than ten characters are shown in inverse video and then percentaged for that sentence . |
| 6 | I was ashamed that I 'd written a reference for him when he applied for that job . |
| 7 | And I applied for that job , and I got it . |
| 8 | Albert was so distressed by the whole affair that he applied for another post further away from the scene of the tragedy . |
| 9 | An Oxford rugby blue in 1959 and 1960 and a keen sailor , Sir Robin , 54 , is remembered by many Whitehall contemporaries as the shrewd captain of the Mandarins cricket team which he led for many years . |
| 10 | She had spent most of her own childhood trying to persuade her parents to fall in love with each other and known how little they really cared for each other or for her , but until recently she had not realised how little real love there had been in her own marriage . |
| 11 | I cared for that child myself . ’ |
| 12 | There was such regret , such a bleakness in his eyes that Lissa turned away , her soul crying out in anguish because it was plain for anyone to see how much he cared for this woman who had betrayed him . |
| 13 | It would n't be an exaggeration to say I lived for that owl during that very intense period of training . |
| 14 | ‘ They lived for each other , they leaned on each other , they helped each other , they worked for each other . |
| 15 | She lived for many years , and preserved a record that she had been treated with Penicillium . |
| 16 | Patients lived for many years , and some died from causes unrelated to their blood pressure . |
| 17 | For instance , this year there will be a film marking the centenary of Leo Walmsley , the novelist who lived for many years at Robin Hood 's Bay . |
| 18 | I lived for many years in the north of England . |
| 19 | Good Friday is about punks at Hastings , where I lived for many years , seen feeding a hot-cross bun to pigeons . |
| 20 | He lived for many years at Brockham , Betchworth , Surrey , and died there 10 April 1935 . |
| 21 | Never married , Lottie Dod lived for many years in London before moving to Milford-on-Sea . |
| 22 | It was almost a model village , with its Quality Street , where a future head of the Secret Service lived for many years . |
| 23 | Bottcher Strawalde is an artist who lived for several decades in the shadow of the Berlin Wall ( the film was discovered or rediscovered by Parisians a month ago at the Jeu de Paume ) . |
| 24 | In order to observe this and to try to understand something of what life in the movement was like at first hand — and , of course , to try to observe the operation of sociological variables such as social control — I lived for several periods of a week or so , over a span of six years , in Unification centres and participated in various of their functions . |
| 25 | Some lived for several days in this pitiful condition , their feet gnawed by dogs , until they died in agony . |
| 26 | Miguel joins us direct from BARCELONA , where he lived for several months . |
| 27 | And while Toff claims his techniques are very much part of the English slipware tradition , his pots often look like something out of Africa , where he lived for several years . |
| 28 | He was a brilliant scholar , and lived for some time at ‘ Titeup Hall , ’ Dalton . |
| 29 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 30 | But the fact remains that Panaetius lived for some time in Rome , as the Index Stoicorum Herculanensis , an excellent source , states ( 73 ) ; and there seems to be no reason to doubt the statement of Cicero in Pro Murena that he was the guest of Scipio ( 31.56 ) . |