Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A further 35% of the students either failed at the final examination , failed at some stage of the course or withdrew for some reason .
2 If you have had a licence refused or revoked for medical reasons your application may still be considered .
3 Most members of the elite accepted the contrast or worked for gradual reform .
4 Neither of them moved or spoke for several minutes .
5 This situation arose when a Prime Minister died in office or resigned for personal reasons , that is to say , when a vacancy occurred which was not accompanied by any change in the position of the parties .
6 She neither gave him an answer nor waited for more reaction , but turned swiftly up the stairs and through the kitchen and along the corridor where , without knocking , she burst into Jessie 's room .
7 Then he put his feet up on the bench and snored for ten minutes .
8 James went to the local police superintendent , one Smith , and asked for 100 police to be billeted on the colliery premises , as , otherwise , the safety men , who were frightened , would not come to work .
9 Pearson , of Tadcaster , admitted three arson charges and asked for eight others to be considered .
10 Youds was ordered to pay £100 per unit and £30 costs and asked for eight weeks to pay the £630 sum .
11 She admitted four charges of making a false representation to obtain benefit and asked for 18 others to be taken into consideration .
12 McCabe , of Millbrook Avenue , Brambles Farm , Middlesbrough , admitted three offences of theft and asked for six offences to be taken into consideration .
13 Anthony Killen , 28 , of no fixed address , admitted burglary , receving stolen goods and asked for two burglaries to be taken into consideration .
14 Christopher Appleton , 18 , of Highmoor Road , Darlington , admitted burglary and asked for two offences to be considered .
15 He admitted eight robberies between May and July and asked for two others and six attempted robberies to be taken into consideration .
16 ‘ On my way down I sent a message to the sheriff 's office at the Guildhall and asked for two cursitors to make diligent inquiries amongst the taverns and stews along this side of the river .
17 He got on to the internal phone and asked for petty cash , not specifying any amount .
18 So he turned into Gambrinus 's and sat himself down at a small ironwork and marble table , and asked for some water .
19 Richardson , 22 , of Clevedon , Avon , admitted 33 fraud charges and asked for 48 others to be considered by Gloucester Crown Court .
20 They were fined £1,000 with £365 costs — and asked for 28 days to pay .
21 On May 13th , after days of heavy selling by the markets — and heavy buying by Spain 's central bank — the government suspended its obligation to defend the peseta , and asked for another realignment of the system .
22 The vast majority of them had tried , and failed for one reason or another , to get into one or other of the local preparatory schools .
23 After emptying and washing each well , 100 µl of sample or standard ( diluted 1 in 80 in phosphate buffered saline , pH 7.2 , and containing 0.1% Tween and 0.5% bovine serum albumin to prevent non-specific protein binding to the plate ) were added and incubated for one hour .
24 Recombinant human tumour necrosis factor-α ( TNF-α ) ( Boehringer Mannheim , Germany ) ( 0.1–100 ng/ml ) was added to effector cells and incubated for one day .
25 The second layer antibody , biotinylatd goat anti-mouse IgG ( Vector Laboratories , Burlingame , CA , USA ) was applied at a dilution of 1:50 and incubated for two hours at room temperature .
26 After being washed with medium , the target cells were suspended in 1 ml of medium containing 100 mCi Na 2 5 1 CrO 4 ( Daiichi Radioisotope , Tokyo , Japan ) and incubated for 45 minutes at 37°C .
27 Peroxidase conjugated sheep anti-mouse immunoglobulins ( Amersham ) were added at a 1/2000 dilution in PBSB-Tween and incubated for 1 hour at room temperature .
28 Cells ( 50000 ) in serum free medium were added to each coated well and incubated for various times at 36°C .
29 Purified VLPs and core-like particles ( CLPs ) were diluted to the concentration of 0.1 mg/ml with 50 mM Tris hydrochloride ( pH 8.0 ) — 150 mM NaCl — 5 mM MgCl 2 — 0.5% Nonidet P-40 , 6 µl of anti-VP2 monoclonal antibody was added to each 200 µl of VLPs or CLPs and incubated for 5 h at 5°C .
30 The pellet from the 100 g centrifugation was resuspended and incubated for 10 minutes at room temperature in 0.1 HEPES saline buffer ( pH 7.4 ) containing 20 mM HEPES in 0.8% sodium chloride , 4.4 mM tropolone and 300 µCi ( 11 MBq ) indium-111 chloride ( Amersham International ) .
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