Example sentences of "it [vb past] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Society heard in July 1861 that the Board was to remove the Bondgate bubbler the cattle fountain that was turning the highway to mire it asked for permission to replace it . |
| 2 | It asked for powers to use animal or electric traction and trams or motor buses . |
| 3 | It asked for interest rates to be lowered even further . |
| 4 | ICI , which had set itself a target of recovering 10 per cent of the CFCs it manufactured for use in cooling systems , has blamed lack of co-operation from local councils , industry and commerce for its failure to recover more than 1 per cent . |
| 5 | Estimated at £20–30,000 , it sold for £32,000 ( $48,000 ) . |
| 6 | Allan Ramsay 's engaging portrait of Sir Edward and Lady Turner ( lot 21 , unpublished est. £250,000–350,000 ) , fresh from exhibition at the National Portrait Galleries of Edinburgh and London and sent to auction by the sitters ' descendants , fetched the morning 's top price , as expected , when it sold for £500,000 , an auction record for his work , to an agent bidding at the back of the room on behalf of a private collector against keen competition from David Posnett of Leger , who was the purchaser of a conversation piece by Nathaniel Hone ( lot 26 , est. £40,000–60,000 ) for £36,000 . |
| 7 | Initially knocked down for $160,000 , a bidding dispute led to its immediate reappearance where it sold for $50,000 ( £31,250 ) . |
| 8 | At Sotheby 's on 14 December the most energetic competition greeted Giulio Romano 's deftly drawn head of an eagle with several British dealers as well as a telephone bidder competing for the prize ; it sold for £16,000 ( $25,040 ) to Colnaghi ( with London dealer Thomas Williams providing the underbidding ) against an estimate of £5–7,000 . |
| 9 | For all that it sold for $46,200 ( £30,800 ) ( est. $30–50,000 ) . |
| 10 | It sold for £23,000 ( $34,500 ) . |
| 11 | He put the Old Rectory at Stoney Stanton , Blaby , Leicestershire , on the market for £325,000 in 1990 but it sold for £239,000 — a 25 per cent drop . |
| 12 | A design for a tapestry by Rubens set a record when it sold for £748,000 . |
| 13 | A record for a sword was set by lot 239 , a Fukuoka Ichimonji Tachi from the Kamakura period ( second half of the thirteenth century ) signed Ichi ; estimated at $200–300,000 , it sold for $380,000 ( £218,400 ) to a European private collector . |
| 14 | A force was assembled under John of Gaunt which was to sail for Brittany in May , but its departure was held up until July , and when it eventually set out it made for Calais instead of Brittany . |
| 15 | The convention laid down provisions for Third World states to benefit from technology transfer and financial aid to help them preserve key areas , and , most controversially , it provided for compensation payments to Third World states in return for extraction of genetic resources ( seen as referring in particular to the exploitation of the gene bank of tropical forests by biotechnology companies ) . |
| 16 | It provided for nationalization of forests , the sale of some state-owned industries to provide money for agricultural development , some worker participation in prophet sharing , revision of electoral laws ( including significant rights for women ) , the formation of a Literacy Corps in an attempt to take education to the countryside and . |
| 17 | It provided for court confiscation of convicted drug dealers ' assets , and the granting of authority for telephone tapping and surveillance of and access to computer systems of suspected drug criminals . |
| 18 | It provided for cuts in support prices to reduce overproduction , and payment of compensation directly to farmers , on condition that all but the smallest farmers " set aside " 15 per cent of their land from production . |
| 19 | It provided for abortion without restriction until the foetus was capable of sustaining life outside its mother 's womb . |
| 20 | It used for traffic patrol , accident attendance and for anti-crime patrols ( an increasing necessity , apparently , with street crime increasing rapidly in the Russian capital ) . |
| 21 | It entrained for Cosham , the battalion 's war station . |
| 22 | In less difficult country , such as the Irish midlands , he was an advocate of railways , and later reproached the government 's commission on this subject with the inadequacy of the network it proposed for Ireland . |
| 23 | In doing so , it secured for co-operatives what the first of the modern Companies Acts had done in 1844 for joint stock companies . |
| 24 | It appealed for sympathy with the unemployed in a way which did not challenge the consensus about the problem . |
| 25 | The women were told it would soon be mended , but by the time it came for bed it still was n't repaired , although probably all it needed was a new fuse . |
| 26 | That is how it came for Jesus ’ . |
| 27 | Last year , reading week was , it seemed for ages , was n't it ? |
| 28 | McIllvanney had offered to let her stay on board Wavebreaker , so long as the boat 's air conditioners were disconnected , but his offer was not as generous as it seemed for Ellen would have been little more than an unpaid security guard and also subject to Bellybutton 's endlessly tedious suggestions , and she far preferred her small hot room in the busy crowded apartment block that smelt of cooking all day and marijuana all night . |
| 29 | At Manchester Airport on 25 August 1985 , a British Airtours charter jet crashed as it prepared for take-off . |
| 30 | And Hewlett-Packard has shown itself willing to make regular infilling acquisitions as it has grown — the company was heavily castigated for the price it paid for Apollo Computer Inc , but without Apollo , it would not be in anything like such a strong position today . |