Example sentences of "when [noun prp] [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faced with a deficit of 522 , Boycott and Gatting fell in successive balls with the score on 2 ; , Gooch and Gower put on 120 , but when Gower went for 54 Gooch found little company . |
| 2 | However , when Bernard applied for planning permission to build a factory on the site he was turned down by the local highways department . |
| 3 | When Edouard left for the airport the next morning , Isobel was with him . |
| 4 | Patrick was three months old when Sarah knew for sure that she would have James 's child before the year was out . |
| 5 | We got a birdie at the 11th by using the 1-iron when Johnny went for the 3-wood , got on , but not near enough to make the birdie putt . |
| 6 | When Surrey tied for the Championship in 1950 the county had the makings of a great side . |
| 7 | He caught Duran with a solid left hook and when Duran grabbed for cover Leonard wanted to get out and back to his sniping post . |
| 8 | When Jane asked for an overdraft , the bank manager ( slogan : ‘ We Like to Say ‘ Yes ’ ’ ) , a pompous Dad 's Army look-alike , after conferring with some nasty men in suits who turned their backs to her , had shown her the door . |
| 9 | She used to be drawn towards political life , she dreamt of the English statesman , yet when Simon went for office she was against it . |
| 10 | Caroline was only a few days old when Wordsworth left for home , and during 1793 , marooned in England without an income or particular hopes of finding one , he learned helplessly of the rise of the Terror in France following the overthrow of the Girondins in June that year . |
| 11 | Forced realignments of the ERM have lately become almost tiresomely familiar : they cause nothing like the excitement of last September 's startling breakdown , when Spain devalued for the first time since joining , and Britain and Italy decided , until further notice , to leave the system altogether . |
| 12 | He was off slowly enough , down the slope , but when Hazel stamped for him to stop he did so at once . |
| 13 | Yet when Lukowiak looked for such a correlation he could not find it ; it seemed as if control of the strength of the reflex was not vested in any single cell of the abdominal ganglion , but was instead a property of the interactions between the ensemble of cells as a system . |
| 14 | When Katharine went for her lesson with Jennie , she had n't ridden since Christmas and was concerned that she would be very stiff and rusty . |
| 15 | He held up a hand when Graham reached for his wallet . |
| 16 | From 1859 caves became exciting to geologists , as they had been forty years earlier when Buckland looked for evidence of the Deluge . |
| 17 | It finally erupted when Mozart asked for permission to stay on for a few days in Vienna to collect some outstanding fees . |
| 18 | Only about one hundred copies had been circulated when Shelley asked for the destruction of the rest of the edition . |
| 19 | When Mapplethorpe asked for the objects to be returned , Bell and his staff presented him with a letter purported to be in Wagstaff 's hand , extending the loan period an additional five years . |
| 20 | A commission to paint Comic Strip comedian Rik Mayall ended rather abruptly when Mayall asked for fuel of an alcoholic nature during his afternoon sitting and , on learning that the artist voted Conservative , began doing Hitler goose steps around the room . |
| 21 | Little was heard of the committee until six months later when Billy asked for another group meeting . |
| 22 | We must surely conclude that when Reagan ran for national office in 1980 he was hardly the amateur in politics that his critics suggested . |
| 23 | Another Florentine nobleman , Jacopo Corsi , who took over the role of patron of the camerata when Bardi left for Rome , composed two numbers for Dafne , a tiny aria for Apollo and a unison coro finale , which have survived , but these are hardly in a nuova maniera . |
| 24 | The English bank 's US arm unwittingly found the ball in its court last year as the primary secured creditor when IBC filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy . |
| 25 | His domination of the set was only threatened at the death when the Swede , trying anything in a do-or-die effort , pegged him back to deuce from 40-love when Becker served for the set at 5–4 . |
| 26 | Nothing very significant so far , ’ Melissa commented when Lou paused for further thought . |
| 27 | Forgiving sin since Christ has died , forgiving sin is easy but it was , yet , it was the hardest thing that God could do because he could only do it when Christ died for us . |
| 28 | In case you do not read the dirty parts of the Bible , then let me remind you that the city of Sodom was earmarked for divine retribution when Abraham pleaded for it to be spared . |
| 29 | Dickins had had nothing more than a back pass and a free-kick to deal with in the first 30 minutes but showed signs of nervousness when Bull challenged for a Birch free-kick . |
| 30 | I was duly astonished when Harley asked for his putter and sent Derek Jefferson ahead to hold the flag . |