Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bob is helping a dozen patients at Stoke Mandeville to prepare for a new independent life . |
| 2 | After I was at court I had to go back to Low Newton to wait for a few weeks before I could go to Styal prison . |
| 3 | SHOOTING victim Jason Ward spoke for the first time yesterday about his week-long ordeal after suffering serious gunshot wounds . |
| 4 | ‘ I ca n't say how I feel , ’ Herr Nordern said for the twentieth time . |
| 5 | Later on in the meeting , Council member David Lindsay called for a full report on Training Outside Public Practice , following his discovery that 62 of the 77 students currently training under TOPP are employed by the National Audit Office . |
| 6 | A group representing families of the British victims marked the anniversary by handing in a petition to 10 Downing Street calling for a public inquiry . |
| 7 | Toby Tobias was quickest away and Desert Orchid could find no more , but the race was far from finished , for as Mark Pitman on Toby Tobias made for the winning post Graham McCourt urged Norton 's Coin to a final effort , and as the two jockeys , whips swishing , pushed their courageous mounts up the hill the cheers from the stands which moments before had been tuning up for another Dessie triumph lapsed into a disbelieving murmur : this was not the right script at all . |
| 8 | DAVID Mellor headed for the political wilderness yesterday by comparing himself to a great British hero . |
| 9 | LONELY toddler Demelza Young cuddles for the first time the answer to her dreams — her new granny . |
| 10 | Tony Dennis took the ball on and Raynor was clear on the right , but as Dennis prepared to pass , referee David Phillips blew for the free kick . |
| 11 | In the first semi-final they took Ontario completely unawares with a dashing try in the opening minutes by centre Greg McKinney which his partner Dennis Clarke converted for a 6–0 advantage . |
| 12 | The late David Penhaligon argued for a separate constituency in nineteen seventy eight and I argued the case in select committee in nineteen eighty eight and the most important fact about these responses is the sheer weight of numbers from democratically elected bodies in Cornwall . |
| 13 | Allowed to choose her hairdresser , Carole Ann Ford plumped for an up-and-coming young stylist she had known and visited for some time named Vidal Sassoon . |
| 14 | Ben 's mother Sheila Silcock writes for the first time about her experiences . |
| 15 | The South Wales authorities have also joined forces with those in South West England to press for a through rail link with the Tunnel thus avoiding the need to cross London from Paddington to the Waterloo terminal , and for the electrification of the main lines from Paddington to Bristol and Penzance , Paddington to Swansea , and Waterloo to Exeter . |
| 16 | Northumberland had their outside-half Ian Chandler to thank for the late drop goal that led to a 13–11 victory over Alberta on a day when a freak Arctic airflow brought snow and near freezing temperatures to Calgary . |
| 17 | Moya Hood has for the last year been teaching weekly classes at Stroud Court in Gloucestershire , a sheltered community opened in 1983 for autistic adolescents and adults . |
| 18 | Unwisely Spain intrigued for an anti-British coalition as she intrigued for an anti-American coalition in 1898 ; as Wellington observed , Spain acted ‘ as if Europe were at her feet ’ . |
| 19 | This , then , is the shape and origin of the habitat that Loch Ness provides for the putative monster . |
| 20 | In the '60s Scottish football was awash with stories of ‘ scouts ’ — the often unpaid enthusiasts who scoured the pitches of school-boy Scotland looking for the next generation of international talent . |
| 21 | A nicely placed observer speculates that if Univel Inc , the Novell Inc/Unix System Labs joint venture , does well with the Destiny desktop operating system , that that will convince Novell chief Ray Noorda to go for a bigger piece of USL : he already owns the largest outside share . |
| 22 | Some of the new poetry Coleridge intended for the joint volume was not written with nearly such ease . |
| 23 | Simon Pardy mumbled for the third or fourth time in the aggressive undertone which seemed to be his preferred manner of replying to any remark . |
| 24 | It is interesting here to note that it is paralleled by one from Islam of how Allah sent the angel Gabriel to search for a pious man in a certain place . |
| 25 | Sold in the Gutmann sale , Sotheby 's , 2 April , for the lower estimate of £150,000 ( $225,000 ) to dealer Christopher Gibbs acting for a private client |
| 26 | Actress Jane Seymour posed for a 40th birthday article with husband David Flynn and their children in March 1991 . |
| 27 | Courageous Carina Hamlet prepares for the latest operation in 10 years of surgery , comforted by her mother Margaret Picture : TEGWYN ROBERTS |
| 28 | Elisabeth Leonskaja opts for the second of these views in her performance of No. 1 , and the deliberate- sounding first movement that results is not altogether convincing . |
| 29 | Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama called for a tougher line , including an arms embargo , against the junta which has held the democracy campaigner under house arrest since July 1989 . |
| 30 | Time now for a recap of tonight 's main headlines with Karen Fraser interpreting for the deaf . |