Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [verb] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We wanted to attract mature students with a high level of skills and commitment and were able , through the Nuffield Foundation , to provide student grants for the first part of the course which either paid for secondment salaries of allowed people who were , for instance working interpreters , to forego part of their normal paid employment . |
| 2 | In the spring of 1922 only those households in the Famine area which possessed the necessary machinery and livestock were given grain to sow for the next season . |
| 3 | Individual farmers had come across difficult times and they needed to borrow to finance seed to plant for the next year 's crop . |
| 4 | ‘ At the PGA championship two weeks ago I putted cack handed for the last nine holes and I did quite well . |
| 5 | Local pupils have taken a great interest in the British Gas work , which is bringing gas supplies for the first time to the Bere Alston and Bere Ferrers communities , where more than a third of the 1042 homes in the area have taken up the offer of gas . |
| 6 | JOHN MELLENCAMP had to cancel tour dates for the second time in a month when bass player Toby Meyers was injured in a boating accident in Saratoga , New York . |
| 7 | The Shanghai stock exchange was reported by the Financial Times of Oct. 23 to have gained approval to offer for the first time to foreign investors shares worth $35,000,000-50,000,000 in the state-owned Shanghai Vacuum , the biggest quoted company on the exchange . |
| 8 | To support these managers he established a marketing department , improved the financial system and introduced business planning for the first time to AEA . |