Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This selection of winning tools includes a 20in Short cut saw for each runner up . |
| 2 | The club went for another batsman instead , and that 's why I was intent on resigning . |
| 3 | While the Bakufu administration had for several decades been subject to criticisms from within its own ranks , a more serious threat to its supremacy emerged from within domains traditionally hostile to it . |
| 4 | Debate as to the relative merits of foot and horse continued for many centuries , and still exists in an attenuated form in the modern technological army . |
| 5 | As it happened , though the tension continued for some time after the building of the Berlin Wall in August to stop the flight of East Germans to the West , the two sides had to settle for a stalemate . |
| 6 | Commitment to a performance target is not assured because a boss asked for that commitment . |
| 7 | His pleasure at the escape had for some reason given way now to even more sadness in the presence of the eagles that were still caged , as if the escape of one had intensified the sense of imprisonment of the others . |
| 8 | The battle lasted for several hours and at about 10.30 p.m. there was a further clash as a crowd charged the police and was dispersed by a counter-charge . |
| 9 | A possible intervention of the King 's Proctor to upset the divorce had for some time been lurking in the Government 's mind . |
| 10 | It requires even more time and a visit to a hypnotherapist until she can reclaim the knowledge that the abuse lasted for many years . |
| 11 | This correspondence continued for some years until 1878 when they moved to late in June . |
| 12 | Steelworkers in the public sector had for some time been in dispute with their employers , the British Steel Corporation , and had come out on strike . |
| 13 | Certain branches of the Ulster Workers ' Council wished for more time to prepare their particular factory or section of industry . |
| 14 | After the fall of Calais , when war ceased for some years , the king had to persuade the commons that direct taxes should continue in order to finance the defence of English positions abroad , notably Calais itself , and to maintain English forces in a state of readiness in case the enemy broke the truce and resumed the war . |
| 15 | According to H. B. Schiefer , a toxicologist at the University of Saskatchewan , Canadians at the meeting argued for more studies of the alleged victims . |
| 16 | This shift occurred for several reasons . |
| 17 | erm , cos Mary that still works in there she , her husband worked for either Mr Henry , I ca n't remember his name , the man that owned it , and I think , I think perhaps they were brothers or something , she , her husband owns it now it 's Freyers or something now |
| 18 | This symptom free period lasted for several days and even weeks . |
| 19 | She had been outraged when her husband left for another woman , had addressed him with religious vehemence and spoken of hell , but as time passed she had realised that life was very much more pleasant without him , that he was generous with money , and so she had , not forgiven , but ceased to revile him ; and I know she found grim amusement in my stepmother 's harassed countenance and the irritating ways of her two small children . |
| 20 | The plaintiff wrote for such advice and also for the name of a ‘ good stockbroker . ’ |
| 21 | Yorick screamed again — the high wail lasted for several seconds before it ended with a sharp report . |
| 22 | The restoration process lasted for several years , extending to other parts of the station , and eventually cost in the region of £10m . |
| 23 | The restoration process lasted for several years , extending to other parts of the station , and eventually cost around £10m . |
| 24 | The facades of 106 houses were rapidly built , but it was another twenty years or more before many of the interiors were begun and Kemp Town stayed for some time rather like a giant film set with the image of grandeur propped up by heavy wooden beams . |
| 25 | It was almost a model village , with its Quality Street , where a future head of the Secret Service lived for many years . |
| 26 | Some simply washed in the pool of water meant for each eagle , dipping their heads and wings in and letting the water run down their backs . |
| 27 | That night the Prime Minister and the King spoke for many hours . |
| 28 | EXPERIENCED vocalist wanted for own material rock band , Van Halen sounding , Northampton , Bedford , Milton Keynes areas . |
| 29 | Father asked for some volunteers to help Nicky collect at the back of the Church , he has already arranged this himself . |
| 30 | This train ran for some time , but was not considered entirely successful . |