Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had always thought the MP for Arden read little save for the Motor Traders ' Gazette . |
| 2 | One of the few collectors dedicated enough to go for the company context is Peter Card , whose collection of 400 old bicycle lamps is without equal . |
| 3 | In Kenya , though there was relatively little pressure for further alienation of Masai land after the second Masai move , what pressure there was was resisted by the administration , and R.W. Hemsted tried repeatedly to retrieve for the Masai the land alienated to Powys Cobb , which contained streams of crucial importance to Masai stock . |
| 4 | After the South African War , he tried unsuccessfully to stand for the South African parliament before returning home to marry Lady Mary Douglas Hamilton . |
| 5 | THREE-quarters of the track including half the through lines , the semaphore signals , the last vestiges of freight facilities and the last of the men who used proudly to work for the old railway company have gone , yet the long-distance service is faster , more frequent and above all better used than at any time in railway history , and the number of passengers passing through probably at an all time high . |
| 6 | Maybe we 'd better aim for the spring half term to go away . |
| 7 | Do you think you 'd better aim for the winter now ? |
| 8 | And I got up and I was gon na tie her up like but and by gosh I thought I 'd better make for the door again . |
| 9 | He 'd probably asked for the best sherry available , she rightly guessed . |
| 10 | When we got to the airport at Stansted , she 'd even arranged for the Captain to escort me on to the plane . |
| 11 | Then , during the afternoon he put in a personal appearance at three of the funeral parlours that he 'd recently acquired for the company as part of his new expansion programme . |
| 12 | There is no question but that VSEL strived genuinely to compete for the order , and put in an effective bid . |
| 13 | The two regions were more industrially developed and russified and showed little support for the IRP . |
| 14 | The outcome of the local government election showed little change for the main parties , and SDLP MP Eddie McGrady said the Secretary of State would see the results revealed nothing that he did not already know . |
| 15 | They showed little regard for the ceremony of church weddings , although they both hoped to find some form of acceptable New Testament-based belief for themselves without benefit of clergy ; they believed , in Lamarckian fashion , that the physical match and spiritual preparation of parents would ensure a ‘ better ’ offspring , as one essential step to a better world . |
| 16 | Now it belonged to Frankie , and while he secretly warmed himself in its folds he spared little thought for the comfort of its previous owner . |
| 17 | That the negligence or rather the breach of the implied term , was failing to ensure as is the common practice amongst solicitors that the proposed source of finance had in fact agreed both finance for the transaction and the term thereon . |
| 18 | THE Royal Family spent yesterday preparing for the Christmas festivities much like any other family . |
| 19 | Moodie , despite a clutch problem on his Honda , closed within four seconds at Ramsey on the final lap , but the 37 year-old Reid put the power down and pulled away to win for the second successive year . |
| 20 | Groups were created by political or material need , and once created , granted each other quasi-familial status ( complete , for literate societies , with swiftly constructed genealogies ; thus , the descendants of the prophet in Islam have down the ages offered much work for the imagination and ingenuity of the genealogical archivists ) . |
| 21 | Continuing our exploration we went northward looking for the Tunnel Cave . |
| 22 | Christmas was eagerly awaited for , but the day itself meant chiefly watching for the postman , disappointment , chapel , a heavy dinner and crackers , some squabbling comparisons of our presents , tea … supper … |
| 23 | ‘ That is not your business ! ’ she shouted and went upstairs to dress for the evening . |
| 24 | Neither services nor any other sector increased sufficiently to compensate for the loss of jobs in manufacturing . |
| 25 | During his first twenty years at Finsbury , Meldola published more than 250 papers and reports , and during his presidency of the Institute of Chemistry he did much work for the development of all aspects of its activities . |
| 26 | When she did finally reach for the food , or lure , all she would do was lean over and rip off a piece , rather than step on to the glove . |
| 27 | In 1986 , the defendant left but did further work for the plaintiff as a self-employed consultant and , as such , the defendant rewrote the program in assembly language . |
| 28 | Yes , Jewish doctors did indeed care for the Arab villagers then , although Mrs Zamzam had mispronounced the names . |
| 29 | In 1901 he was appointed conductor of the Toynbee Musical Association , a mixed-voice choir attached to a men 's social club , and in 1906 he founded the Glasgow Orpheus Choir , with which his name became indelibly linked for the rest of his life . |
| 30 | If , as everyone now insists , Noah had made up his mind not to continue as Davis Cup captain well before the match against Switzerland , then the decision can not have had anything to do with his obvious annoyance that , in his eyes , neither Henri Leconte or Guy Forget had properly prepared for the tie . |