Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] for the [noun prp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Levellers will perform in front of 70 , people during the tour , and already well over 50 , tickets have been snapped up , so get cracking if you want one for the Belfast gig . |
| 2 | Short had been saving him for the Ascot race . |
| 3 | ‘ The rest of us in Argentina 'ave forgiven you for the Falklands War . ’ |
| 4 | I am writing to thank you for the Morrissey article . |
| 5 | Yes … take your time , we will keep it for the Wednesday edition . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm almost sure he will not race again before , but we will enter him for the Hennessy Gold Cup in Ireland . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Alex felt that if I selected him for the Poland game , he should play and try to help us get the result before announcing his retirement , and that was Bryan 's intention . ’ |
| 8 | He filled the kettle and set it on the hob , then went through to the front room , closed the shutters , and tried radioing on the frequency Caspar had given him for the US Embassy in Belpan City . |
| 9 | Nimbus says that when the superscalars become available , cloners will simply have to swap them for the Cypress part . |
| 10 | The world champion may not be worried about the £500 fine handed out for throwing the last game of his bizarre straight-games loss to Jahangir Khan in the final of last month 's Stuttgart Open , but he should be more concerned at the zero computer points assigned him for the Stuttgart tournament , which may enable Jahangir to overtake him in the New Year rankings , plus the fact that any further misdemeanour will probably mean draconian punishment . |
| 11 | Clever Trevor must be the most over rated player in Scotland ( except for Paul McStay ) and it surprises me how Taylor picks him for the England squad yet does n't give big Mark the nod . |
| 12 | Although I would have been surprised if London 's Charles Dickens Society required its members to put on a white tie for its annual dinner , the invitation card demanded it for the Scott dinner . |
| 13 | Leonard , who plays more golf in the summer than bowls , partners Irish international senior skip and Lisnagarvey club mate Noel Graham in their bid to win the Irish pairs title for the first time since the brilliant Fisher and Ringland combination won it for the Lisburn club in 1970 . |
| 14 | ‘ I was playing in a particular game and did not think I had done anything spectacular at all when I was approached by Heffernan who told me that he wanted me for the Ireland team to play Australia in the Compromise Rules series , ’ recalls McGilligan . |
| 15 | Rocky may get his chance if England midfielder David Batty fails to make it for the Boro game . |
| 16 | Then another friend , David Vercoe , who happens to be the controller for Radio 2 , suggested it for the Jamieson show . |
| 17 | Similarly , if you have a regular tutorial at say , 11 am each Tuesday , it makes sense to set aside some part of Monday to prepare yourself for the Tuesday tutorial ( see Chapters on managing your time at college ) . |