Example sentences of "and [noun] [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten days later Ricky and Perdita left for Argentina . |
| 2 | Bristol piled on fierce pressure and Middlesbrough paid for their lack of enterprise when Bristol equalised after 67 minutes . |
| 3 | Bristol piled on fierce pressure and Middlesbrough paid for their lack of enterprise when City equalised after 67 minutes . |
| 4 | Wilkes and Cobbett wrote for a society which still shuddered at the memory of the puritans and their censors , the good people appointed by Cromwell to license and to regulate the press . |
| 5 | The business seemed to be doing well and all day vans called for items which Joe had listed and William prepared for despatch . |
| 6 | She looked away and Trent thought for a moment that she would leave it alone , but then she looked back and asked quickly , to get it out , ‘ Did your mother leave him for your father ? ’ |
| 7 | The din and chaos continued for some time after help arrived from the êchelon of spectators , Charles and Peregrine among them . |
| 8 | Currently concentrating on Sparc-based hardware , Lucid has an agreement with NCR Corp that will see its compiler technology and Energize converted for the Intel 80486 under Unix System V.4 and Santa Cruz Unix : compilers have already been implemented for the IBM Corp Rios chip , and Lucid has its eye on Hewlett-Packard Co 's Precision Architecture RISC . |
| 9 | Julio Salinas and Michel scored for the Spaniards , while both Hungary 's goals came from Pinter . |
| 10 | Even though caring meant postponing many of the plans Mary and Jim had for their retirement , when her father died , Mary expressed satisfaction about the time spent caring for him . |
| 11 | The Government had failed to agree on a programme : Baldwin was for protection ; Samuel was against it ; and MacDonald asked for ‘ a doctors mandate ’ . |
| 12 | Hydrothermal alteration and mineralisation continued for up to 30 Ma after the emplacement of the intrusions at about 400 Ma . |
| 13 | The cover picture of a paperback edition of She and Allan published for popular consumption in 1960 implied that this was a ‘ romantic ’ novel , but the orthodox young , handsome ‘ hero ’ depicted there bears little relation to the ‘ insignificant and withered hunter ’ whose presence , helped by that of the warrior Umslopagaas , coolly acceptant of mystery , pulls this tale of Ayesha round into the robust atmosphere of Rider Haggard 's most typical African adventures . |
| 14 | Nails took his usual Ford Escort that night from the parking lot outside the gasworks where the night shift was working , the one he had a key for , and he and Gary went for a drive round the back streets where they would n't meet a patrol car , out into the country for ten miles or so and back again . |
| 15 | KMnO 4 was then added up to 4 mM and incubation continued for 30 seconds at 37°C . |
| 16 | After 10 min , heparin was added up to 10 µg/ml and incubation continued for either 15 seconds or 10 min ( indicated in the figure as +h and +H , respectively ) . |
| 17 | And Na-dene did for the Jews . |
| 18 | There were some , however , who thought that the invasion came too close to the active resistance which Tories and Anglicans had for so long condemned . |
| 19 | When he and Adenauer met for the first time , de Gaulle records , ‘ We discussed Europe at length . |
| 20 | Ironic compliments were paid to Pierre , Donna and Raoul for the potency and effect of their acting and Raoul played for sympathy and looked nobly forgiving , holding a handkerchief to his nose and peering at it for blood , of which there seemed to be not much . |
| 21 | This caused an angry confrontation and Minton apologised for his deceit . |
| 22 | Hobbs , Hutchings , Hardstaff and Humphries played together for England in 1908 , for example , and Hassett , Hole , Harvey and Hill played for Australia in two matches of the Coronation series , Hunte , Holford , Hendriks and Hall were all picked for West Indies in 1966 , and Hedley Howarth , two Hadlees and Hastings played for New Zealand in 1974 . |
| 23 | The show was The Henderson Kids and Kylie auditioned for the part of Charlotte Kernow — known as Char — in a tomboy role that was to prove remarkably similar to the character that would one day transform her into a superstar . |
| 24 | The Lady 's Not For Burning by Christopher Fry was to be directed by John Gielgud at the Globe in May 1949 and Richard auditioned for the ‘ orphaned clerk ’ . |
| 25 | The wars with republican France and Napoleon lasted for nearly twenty years and although erm er temporary truces and peaces were negotiated , the struggle continued until the overthrow of Napoleon and that was , although it was a , a largely European war , it did have ramifications , it brought Britain , for example , into war with the United States in nin in eighteen twelve . |
| 26 | Men like Jeremiah and Ezekiel looked for the day when God would forge a new covenant , or agreement , with men . |
| 27 | Murphy and Taggart led for much of the way but missed out a loop section of the route which cost them 30 marks and they dropped back . |
| 28 | Two days later , when thunderstorms were muttering over the Slieve Mish and the sea crows were circling lazily over the valley , her father and brothers came for her and took her up to Ballymacadoyle Hill . |
| 29 | Encouraged by Lawyer , Monteith responded by stationing troops on Weippe Prairie and on the Wallowa , where the Nez Perce and Umatilla fished for salmon . |
| 30 | While Singapore was enthusiastic , Malaysia remained cautious , and Indonesia called for a greater concentration on intra-ASEAN rather than external economic relations [ for Indonesian relations with ASEAN countries see p. 37580 ] . |