Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [noun] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dozens of motorcyclists teamed up to ride from Teesside International Airport to Darlington Memorial Hospital , taking with them Easter gifts for the young patients . |
| 2 | , a delightful person , was my guardian angel for the first ten days of the tour , and was also good enough to rearrange my return journey from Hyderabad , so that I could get back in London in time for an appointment on 29 November . |
| 3 | ‘ Expanding Emporio is the most important aspect of my business plan for the next five years , ’ says the maestro , confidently plotting his way to a bright future as less resilient designers wring their hands or close shop . |
| 4 | At midnight , when , as the carol says , the animals were on their knees , I crept to the cot and put my pillowcase offering for the little fatherless one . |
| 5 | My friend plays for the United and her husband polishes up her boots on a Saturday night ! |
| 6 | He taught me the lesson of supply and demand for , although quite willing to swap , he demanded twelve of my Anstie spares for the one card . |
| 7 | ‘ Honestly God , if you had seen my performance reports for the last forty years you would not be offering me this position . ’ |
| 8 | I 'm lucky enough to have a diary full of opera engagements , and my recording schedule for the next couple of years is particularly exciting : Così with Mehta [ See our interview in the next issue ! — Ed. ] , a disc of Mozart arias , and a Magic Flute ( all for Sony ) , a Don Carlos with Levine , a Verdi Requiem , all the Schubert Masses , a Verdi recital , some Russian bass/baritone duets , and a recital of Mussorgsky and Rachmaninov songs with Alexis Weissenberg ! ’ |
| 9 | Used my travel alarm for the first time having been appointed ‘ waker up ’ for breakfast — not a success as I had forgotten to resent for French time ( one hour ahead ) — many comments about my parentage . |
| 10 | They were both so obsessed with the place , its gossip and rumours and intrigues , that they wanted to spend every possible moment together there , comparing notes , exchanging opinions : who was in , who out , what X said about Y's review of P's book about Q. Well , she was sick and tired of the place , tired of its beautiful architecture housing vanity and paranoia , glad to exchange its hothouse atmosphere for the real if smoky air of Rummidge . |
| 11 | Also , as the claim of executive privilege involved constitutional issues , Greene ordered Poindexter 's lawyers to disclose their defence strategy for the forthcoming trial to Reagan and the Justice Department so that they could decide whether to proceed with their objections . |
| 12 | With their debut album for the superb independent label Dorado , D*Note are going to go clear . |
| 13 | Their maturity-depth curve for the Carboniferous of northern Germany , including the Ruhr , is described from a similar geothermal regime to the Southern North Sea . |
| 14 | The Hong Kong Government emphasises that its deportation policy for the Vietnamese is no different from its policy of sending illegal Chinese immigrants back across the border . |
| 15 | The ambitious plans were revealed when the company threw open the doors of its showpiece development for the first time yesterday . |
| 16 | AMATEUR drama lovers have vowed the show will go on despite being bombed out of the venue for their drama finals for the second time in two days . |
| 17 | The Santa Cruz Operation Inc is sidling up even closer to Compaq Computer Corp , following the signing of a worldwide OEM agreement which will see Compaq putting all SCO products through its marketing channels for the first time . |
| 18 | Although the majority of these barbarians moved on to Spain in 409 , some stayed behind : there were Alans active in Gaul under their leader Goar for the next thirty years ; they were to be settled in Gallia Ulterior , that is on land to the north of the Loire , in the 440s . |
| 19 | But today had shown her that she was n't immune to normal natural feelings , and even her imaginery passion for the handsome singer had n't protected her from this very real and very frightening feeling of genuine affection . |
| 20 | Records show a huge surge in deals on the high-risk , high-return traded options market 24 hours before Kingfisher , the Woolworths-to-B&Q retailing empire unveiled its takeover offer for the troubled Dixons group . |
| 21 | The TI Engineering company says its takeover bid for the Dowty Group does n't threaten jobs . |
| 22 | Most operators see this as an accounting nicety , but it would seem that BT is taking the directive much further , using it as the basis for building its business strategy for the next millennium . |
| 23 | The CIS have chosen the London race as their selection point for the remaining two places in the Barcelona Olympics . |
| 24 | Adoption of Motif application programming interface specifications by X/Open Co Ltd offers a politically acceptable means for Sun Microsystems Inc to offer Motif products on its price list for the first time : its SunSoft Inc subsidiary plans to market Santa Cruz Operation Inc-owned IXI Ltd 's Motif toolkit under a deal already signed and due to be revealed soon ; subsequently SunSoft will offer a combined ‘ MoLook ’ -type COSE toolkit in first half 1994 . |
| 25 | Adoption of Motif application programming interface specifications by X/Open Co Ltd offers a politically acceptable means for Sun to offer Motif products on its price list for the first time . |
| 26 | It is expected that their development plans for the new financial year will put a roof over the heads of about 7,000 people . |
| 27 | Back home at the family garage near Banbury , Richard and Thomas Tuthill are keeping things ticking over until their father returns for the big celebration . |
| 28 | Microsoft Corp is going to pull out all the stops this week at Windows World , its launch pad for the infamous Windows NT operating system . |
| 29 | The Forestry Commission has announced its spending plans for the three years 1992/93 — 1994/95 . |
| 30 | Cosequently , the Treasury does not know whether its spending overdraft for the coming budget year will be closer to $350 billion or $400 billion . |