Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dona Marguerita coughed wheezily for a few moments before resuming the interview . |
| 2 | Judi Goodwin drops in for a mince pie and soaks up the atmosphere of this warm , family home . |
| 3 | Aussie skipper Border and pace bowler Merv Hughes , who was fined Pounds 185 , appealed vigorously for lbw decisions as tail-enders Ian Bishop and Courtney Walsh held out for a draw in Brisbane . |
| 4 | Keith McGarry , last year 's leading point scorer in Ulster increased Dungannon 's lead to 12 points before prop David Miller surged over for a try after good work from Jeremy Hastings near the Highfield line . |
| 5 | You know young Neil Lewis coming in for a game like this is tremendous performance and Michael Whitlow and Colin Hill have been up against it but they 've worked hard and I think it 's been a great game and er one nil probably does n't er justify both sides . |
| 6 | Five players were booked , and Newry had David Coleman sent off for a bad challenge on Peebles . |
| 7 | Saracens were never in it and when Richard West went over for a try , it was virtually all over . |
| 8 | After the interval , chances were few and far between and most of the early play took place in mid-field , but towards the end Hucklecote applied severe pressure , but the visitor 's defence superbly mastered by outside half , Neil Smith held out for a fine hard-earned victory . |
| 9 | Visitors Cholmondeley held out for a draw on 130 for seven . |
| 10 | Kim Barnes went along for a preview . |
| 11 | More so at that time when companies were culled from post-war part-blackout part-music hall Britain to cling together for a while on what usually became the wreckage of a production . |
| 12 | Dr Dunstaple paused triumphantly for a moment to allow the significance of this to seep in . |
| 13 | She had asked Elizabeth and Dr Wyn to come in for a drink that evening . |
| 14 | For instance , I have today recorded a radio interview in Welsh stressing the need to have an application for quarrying on the Carmel Woods SSSI called in for a public inquiry . |
| 15 | Mr Yeltsin secured the required number of votes in his third attempt in four days , just as President Gorbachov flew off for a visit to Canada prior to his summit with President Bush in America . |
| 16 | Ultimately it was Nayim 's audacious away goal that ruled , but only in the closing minutes had the Londoners enjoyed a moment 's respite from the pumped-up Fourth Division team , who had Roy McDonough sent off for a reckless tackle near the end . |
| 17 | The wind caught it and it bounced awkwardly for the St Aloysius defence and Roy Montgomery went in for a try under the posts which was converted by Ross Houghton . |
| 18 | After meeting the Soviet culture minister , and the musical director of the Bolshoi opera , Mr Palmer set off for a cellar club-cum-recording studio and gallery to hear a folk singer break the musical mould and , hopefully , erase the memory of the song ( ‘ I Belong To … ’ ) |
| 19 | Mr Hatton sat down for a moment and dropped his head briefly into his hands . |
| 20 | Franz Kafka lived here for a time . |
| 21 | Apollon did n't help their cause when they had Marios Charalambous sent off for a second bookable offence a minute before the break . |
| 22 | Never afraid of disturbing cosy arrangements that had outlived their usefulness , McEwan Younger worked single-mindedly for a merger with William Youngers , another family company . |
| 23 | In the 68th minute the huge Musselburgh contingent in the crowd went wild when McMillan broke up the blindside and sent winger Craig Ramsey racing in for a try to put his side 14-10 up . |
| 24 | The plot fires off in every direction at once , almost entirely wasting some of a fine ensemble cast ( Maria De Medirios shows up for a couple of close ups and little more ) , introducing sub-plots at the very last minute ( a homosexual love affair between the opera 's leading man and director is inexplicably absent from the rest of the movie ) and turning from light comedy to an intense marital drama with no warning . |
| 25 | Young Donald listened sceptically for a moment . |
| 26 | " Ask Dr. Lorrimer to come down for a few minutes , will you please ? " |
| 27 | ‘ So why does n't Nicky Kai come in for a share of all this moral condemnation , since you know that Florian is still legally married ? ’ |
| 28 | One morning when she was in his office working on his personal files Mike came in for a discussion . |
| 29 | Derby were convincing 3–0 winners over Pisa , who also had Jose Antonio Chamot sent off for a professional foul on Ted McMinn . |
| 30 | ELTON JOHN and Axl Rose teamed up for a spectacular duet at the MTV awards in Los Angeles . |