Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] [pron] [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Kirk does not record that he raised any specific objection to this , or that he asked for confirmation that the Cossacks were all Soviet nationals within the terms of allied policy , he nevertheless includes the exchanges about the Cossacks among the points on which he requests the State Department 's views . |
| 2 | Frederica wondered whether Caroline knew the Scarborough story , and , if so , whether it was known as a joke or as something apologised for . |
| 3 | He then said that he now had confirmation from the police and that I qualified for a transfer and would receive an offer for Govan ( where my dad is ) within a week . |
| 4 | In our study continuous monitoring showed that DGR occurred in all patients with gastric ulcers , and that it occurred for a significantly greater proportion of the study time than in normal controls . |
| 5 | Beaverbrook told a meeting of the Commonwealth Prime Ministers on 10 May about his discussions with Berle the previous month , and that he hoped for Commonwealth agreement before an international conference . |
| 6 | It was hard to remember that God had made them , too , and that He begged for leniency for them . |
| 7 | He said it was n't long and that she worried for nothing and I changed the subject . |
| 8 | She had told him that Brenda was obsessively vegetarian , and that she longed for red meat : would he take her out ? |
| 9 | And than they stayed for months , indeed years , until driven out in pain and indignity . |
| 10 | And so they made for home . |
| 11 | And so they asked for English counsel and ‘ furtherance ’ . |
| 12 | Fiercely anti-Vichy , Ika 's family had considered it patriotic to have duplicate ration-books ; these they had conveniently retained in a post-Vichy world , and so they wanted for little . |
| 13 | He talked glowingly about nuclear powered aircraft but this was beyond Argentina 's ability and so they settled for more conventional designs . |
| 14 | And although she listened for the sound of his steps , she did not hear them . |
| 15 | ‘ Planning ’ was judged to have taken place if the girl had known the man for at least six months before cohabitation and if she cohabited for positive reasons rather than because of outside pressures such as pregnancy or the need to escape from an unhappy home . |
| 16 | She felt weak and seedy and if she went for a walk her ankles puffed up . |
| 17 | If he asked him to pass the screwdriver he passed the hammer and if he asked for the hammer , he passed the nearest broomhandle , which was usually in another room altogether . |
| 18 | And if you volunteered for five years I know you got fifty pound for that which was a hell of a lot of money , a year 's wage in some peoples ' eyes that was you know . |
| 19 | Can I , you the example you did before to other people was that if you worked you know your normal scheme forty years and if you worked for ten of those forty years you become deferred . |
| 20 | Notorious was his initial estimate of reparations to be extracted from Germany — £20 billion — ‘ and if anybody went for forty billions , I should not disbelieve him ’ . |
| 21 | After a short discussion on the merits of the duck , he decided to join her ; and while they waited for the first course to arrive , he regaled her with a colourful account of that afternoon 's meeting in the history department to sort out the timetable . |
| 22 | Yawning ponderously , he put Clytemnestra outside the back door and while he waited for her , stood staring emptily at the cloudless , star-filled sky . |
| 23 | Terry had to go back on Sunday night and before he left for the station hugged his mother and looked fearfully into her drawn face . |
| 24 | and whether you asked for anything else . |
| 25 | And when they surfaced for air , she poured champagne and slipped a Mickey Finn into Kattina 's glass . |
| 26 | Mahmoud came in again later on and when we asked for books he said that we could have encyclopedias . |
| 27 | But it was n't OK and when I reached for my bishop , he 'd wave his arms over the board like a referee who 's just counted somebody out — and change his move . |
| 28 | Hospital appointments seemed to go on for ever and when I left for the Sahara , I forgot to cancel one of them . |
| 29 | Vocals went straight down with only the minimum of top end EQ to keep them sharp , and when I went for the final mixdown I have to say I was amazed at how big a sound was coming back from the monitors . |
| 30 | I was told that the manager had gone to lunch , and when I asked for him to be bleeped I was told again that he had gone to lunch and that he had left his bleep at the switchboard — all in a tone that suggested that this was standard behaviour . |