Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] for [art] local [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But our to avoid that situation I left and went to work with which kept me in the Edinburgh branch and within three or four weeks I stood for the local organizer and had not been successful . |
2 | And a friend and neighbour of hers , who played for the local cricket team , was wantonly murdered by the poor , dreadful Ruth Ellis , the last woman to be hanged in England . |
3 | Neurosurgeons have already operated on Michael , who worked for a local builders ' merchant , and a team of specialists are keeping a round-the-clock watch on his condition . |
4 | A postmortem examination at Middlesbrough General Hospital carried out by Home Office pathologist Dr James Sunter revealed that Mr McEvoy , who worked for a local bus company , died of a gunshot wound . |
5 | THE WAITS were a group of four musicians or minstrels who performed for the local corporation and received a badge and annual payment for their services . |
6 | He recalled Blaney 's pallid and innocuous watercolours of the better-known beauty spots of Norfolk : Blakeney , St Peter Mancroft and the cathedral at Norwich , which he produced for the local shops . |
7 | He fought for a local government seat in Islington in 1982 and gained Stockton south from the SDP in 1987 . |
8 | In a career that took him to Genoa where he played for the local side Sampdoria , he assumed an almost Italianate sense of style . |