Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] for [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One barman mistook Johnny for one of the regulars and apologised for standing on his foot . |
| 2 | Glamorgan Colt all rounder Ben Thomas claimed 4–48 as Builth Wells dismissed Burghill for 186 in the only game to get underway in the Multisigns Marches League . |
| 3 | At The Oval , Tiger caught Dave for 6 off the bowling of Woolley , to become the first person to dismiss his namesake in Test cricket on English soil . |
| 4 | Wallasey Labour MP Angela Eagle campaigned for Bill Clinton during a trip to America and her twin sister Maria , who failed to win Crosby for Labour in the April general election , is in Minnesota helping with the final push to bring the Democrat challenger to power . |
| 5 | The party which had ruled France for ten of the past 12 years was in a state of ruin . |
| 6 | He subsequently came briefly into the national spotlight when , fighting Bexley for Labour in the 1966 General Election , he gained only 2,333 votes fewer than Conservative leader Edward Heath in a 54,826 poll . |
| 7 | Sir Aubrey also became the first man in Test history to dismiss a namesake when he bowled F.W. for 7 in the first innings . |
| 8 | All subject groups had DGR for some of the study period ; however , both groups of patients had reflux for a significantly longer proportion of study time than the normal controls ( 12% of study time for normal controls , 67% for gastric ulcer patients , and 91% for gastric surgery patients ; p<0.001 gastric ulcer v controls and p<0.0002 gastric surgery v controls ; Fig 1 ) . |
| 9 | Mr Tam Dalyell held Linlithgow for Labour in the first Scottish result to be declared . |