Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] for [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anne studied Robyn for a few moments . |
| 2 | She did not see Joe for a few days and then one Friday as she walked past she saw him in the teashop and went in to join him . |
| 3 | Selling Old Trafford to a first-time buyer on a 100 per cent mortgage would be easier than selling Manchester for the 1996 Olympics . |
| 4 | The crowd were settling in nicely to this when Ray ‘ Preston ’ joined John for a few numbers . |
| 5 | No one had been called Emily for a hundred years . |
| 6 | Perhaps , while she hassled , she managed to forget Montaine for a few hours . |
| 7 | He had only known Heather for a few weeks , after all , and may well have been deceived by the impression she had created in Rhodes ' alien environment . |
| 8 | ‘ I want you to let me have Hannah for a few days . |
| 9 | Elinor said , ‘ I saw Sam for a few minutes , darling . |
| 10 | ‘ This young lad was getting people to mind Sam for a few days at a time . |
| 11 | Nigel Jones , who won Cheltenham for the Liberal Democrats has been named front bench spokesman on housing and local government . |
| 12 | Serbs , Croats and Muslims have all committed crimes but UN investigators blame Serbs for the worst atrocities such as so-called ethnic cleansing , concentration camps , systematic rape and mass murder . |
| 13 | Of those universities who also support Ph D research in Scottish geology , Edinburgh 's students and staff have consulted 100 of the theses in data set C. For the major universities researching in the field , the numbers of thesis borrowers from particular universities are in proportion ( ratio nearly 1:1 ) to the numbers of Ph D theses produced in these universities . |
| 14 | The vice-president of the European Parliament , David Martin , the Labour MEP for Lothian , welcomed the move to put pressure on the Government to introduce PR for the European elections . |
| 15 | John went over to Mosquito Island where he has established James for a few days with a government tent , man and fitting-up . |