Example sentences of "[vb past] for [adj] [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The coup leaders belatedly asked for additional US help . |
| 2 | Malaysia , and to a lesser extent Indonesia , expressed concern at a November agreement which provided for increased US use of Singapore 's military facilities . |
| 3 | The pact also provided for 300 UN guards , all but a handful of whom were to be stationed in northern Iraq , and an unspecified number of aid workers . |
| 4 | And he played for old Mrs Lark . |
| 5 | Maybe the 577 voters who plumped for either Lindi St Clair ( Corrective ) , Nigel Downing ( Football Supporters ) or Colin Holt ( Yorkshire ) will stay at home on April 9 , but the 456 who plumped for Green Ged Parr are likely to make a different choice . |
| 6 | In return , the US negotiators agreed to Japanese demands for action on its spiralling budget deficit , which Japan blamed for excessive US consumer demand and for an excessively strong US dollar . |
| 7 | It goes on , correctly , to show how Jack Blum , an investigator who worked for Democratic Senator John Kerry 's subcommittee on terrorism , narcotics and international Relations , played a key role in persuading the New York district attorney , Robert Morgenthau , to take an interest in BCCI and begin his own investigation . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | Product plans from 18 months ago called for first Alaska shipments this quarter , a date HaL is obviously not going to make . |
| 10 | Product plans from 18 months ago called for first Alaska shipments this quarter , a date HaL is obviously not going to make . |
| 11 | Nigel Le Vaillant who plays Chapman , fell for pretty Nicola Jeffries arrived to play assistant receptionist Jenny , the pair clicked immediately . |
| 12 | He was Sweeney Todd , the Demon Barber of Fleet Street ; he was Spring-Heel 'd Jack , the Terror of London ; he was Sir Percival Glyde , the Spine-Snapping Baronet ; he was the Wicked Squire who did for poor Maria Marten in the Red Barn ; he was Varney the Vampyre , Wagner the Wehr-Wolf , jaunty Jekyll and madman Hyde , the Oxton Creeper , the Coughing Horror , the Face at the Window … |
| 13 | I rang Seddon at home before he left for New Scotland Yard and asked him to find out for me the names of the officers who had dealt with the Southwark Bridge case . |