Example sentences of "[vb past] for these [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And all the time you were n't really there , you were somewhere else entirely , and the funniest part of it was that you ended up looking like a pro , like a model who lived for these moments in the public eye . |
| 2 | We never asked for these technologies , and in the long run they give us fewer choices , not more . |
| 3 | He never saw the rope that would hang him for the noose was concealed in the hem of the white hood that the hangman drew over his head with the usual gentle suggestion that AIbert Pierrepoint reserved for these occasions . |
| 4 | Had a piece of Lotharian history survived for these years , it would have told a different story . |
| 5 | Agreements reached for these groups are incorporated into the convenio . |
| 6 | She then looked for these citations in the databases . |
| 7 | She then looked for these citations in the databases . |
| 8 | It is a much debated question whether those who voted for these resolutions were truly representative of their countries ' educators and whether the debate preceding them was fairly conducted . |
| 9 | John Piggott atoned for these scenes with a cool chip around the trunk of a mighty tree behind the 16th , his son holing out for a match-winning four when a six had threatened to open the door to the Betts . |
| 10 | In 1938 it atoned for these failings . |
| 11 | Writers were Tom Leonard , Alasdair Gray and ( he joined us for ‘ The Pie ’ ) Jim Kelman and I. Tom 's black , black ironies and satires on the Lebanon , the New Right , the Media , West of Scotland sectarianism and chauvinism ; Alasdair Gray 's insane Grant family , his moneyed braggarts and blusterers , his quick shifts of dramatic power in curt sketches , his deranged respected old politicos ; Jim Kelman 's surrealist pubs and monologuing gamblers , and grim almost folk tales — like the story of ‘ The Hon ’ that comes up out of the lavatory pan ( ’ Yi nivir know the minit ’ ) meant that the broad rather lightweight stuff I wrote for these revues had plenty of stronger , more solid , meatier material contrasting with it . |