Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked at his master rather anxiously as he spoke , and Cornelius Fennell , catching that warning eye , perversely asked for another piece . |
| 2 | If I analyse the bosses I 've worked for , the ones who irritated me the most were the ones who were indecisive and who constantly asked for more information just to delay making a decision . |
| 3 | After a spell in private practice , Vial was made equerry to Louis XVI and chef de manège of the Lyons riding academy , a post he apparently held for some years , but could not retain . |
| 4 | And the overall groupings which we finally evolved for this book in terms of life focus also turn out to be remarkably close to the clusters of life styles picked out in an earlier American study taking just this perspective , Robert Williams and Claudine Wirths 's Lives through the Years . |
| 5 | Polytechnic directors yesterday called for more government funding . |
| 6 | As she spoke , joy brightened her face , and the love she still felt for this man was alive in her every word . |
| 7 | The high temperatures of 10 mill K and more lasted for many milliseconds , and implied that there was a high degree of plasma stability , and large reduction of the unaccountable loss of energy and plasma across the magnetic field found in early experiments on Zeta pinches and on stellarators in the US ( though indeed some unaccountable loss still exists ) . |
| 8 | The revival by the Party of an old Mao maxim , ‘ Seeking from facts ’ , also allowed for more flexibility in the political sphere and rejection of political dogma . |
| 9 | Dr Almahawi also worked for some months at the Unsworth group practice in Westhoughton , near Bolton , Greater Manchester and as a locum at a local hospital , before his death in May 1992 . |
| 10 | Dr Almahawi also worked for several months at the Unsworth group practice in Westhoughton , near Bolton , Greater Manchester , and as a locum at a local hospital , before his death in May , 1992 . |
| 11 | He also worked for several years with the Lutheran World Federation . |
| 12 | Next in was Ocean Quest on 11 December , with a time of 16 days , 10 hr , 9 min and 22 sec , but they also motored for many hours . |
| 13 | The English Free Church Year Book of 1911 probably spoke for many communions when it said ‘ the truth is — and we must face its startling reality — the educated middle class , especially the young people , are losing touch altogether with the House of God ’ . |
| 14 | They both accounted for this outcome in terms of the rigidity of the block contracts they had been recommended to make by the regional health authority . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Perhaps they were too well-known to need spelling out ; but it is just as likely that the personal qualities which contemporaries did stress were what really accounted for both men 's influence at the courts of successive Carolingians . |
| 17 | He had a number of set speeches which he frequently rehearsed for such occasions . |
| 18 | Adam 's wet arm lazily reached for another peach . |
| 19 | When he emerged , Dr Shakhar seemed to think that the talk had gone well and then asked for another audience . |
| 20 | Words that are longer than ten characters are shown in inverse video and then percentaged for that sentence . |
| 21 | He then worked for many years as a country doctor , during which time his son Robert nearly died from smallpox inoculation performed by a ‘ surgeon of his acquaintance ’ . |
| 22 | She then looked for these citations in the databases . |
| 23 | She then looked for these citations in the databases . |
| 24 | Where the great rivers of molten lava had flowed in the distant past was now a jumbled mass of solidified rock-like structures which sometimes stretched for many kilometres . |
| 25 | On Saturday she again walked for some hours around and about the tree-lined , wide , clean streets of the spa town with its artistic colonnade and its many curative springs . |
| 26 | Both lost in their own thoughts , neither spoke for several minutes , then they both spoke together . |
| 27 | We never asked for these technologies , and in the long run they give us fewer choices , not more . |
| 28 | I mean I actually voted for this contract , erm , rather reluctantly , but it seemed better than not , doing so at the time , but we were given assurances , and it was very well understood by absolutely everybody , that vigorous management would be needed in order to achieve the targetising and that was the only way that the savings were going to be made , and it does seem that , that , erm that has not been going on . |
| 29 | previously neither the Building Regulations nor the NHBC specifically legislated for this type of construction . |