Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb past] for [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we 're gon na catch every traffic light on red now there was something I wanted to go into Wisbech for but I ca n't think for the life of me what it was , I must get stuck into this Christmas shopping again , really must so much to do and such little time to do it in oh he 's , he 's put that car down five hundred pounds , that price of that car was , that he got for sale on it seven , seven , nine , five , |
| 2 | If it depended for government on the whims of its grandees , Georgian Sussex owed even more to their changing habits as members of leisured society , the relatively small but wealthy group whose fashions determined large areas of the economy in pre-industrial England . |
| 3 | Just after we closed for press on Friday , news came through that NCR Corp 's chairman and chief executive Gilbert Williamson would retire from the company in May and would be succeeded by Jerre Stead , currently president of AT&T Co 's Global Business Communications Systems , which he is credited with having turned around ; Stead , 50 , will have the title group executive-NCR , and will be succeeded by Patricia Russo , currently vice president-national sales and service for the Global Business Unit ; although the switch is being presented as amicable , there are mutters that AT&T is concerned that NCR has not had a higher profile since acquisition . |
| 4 | A PREGNANT woman who was beaten and stabbed to death in daylight had been abducted as she telephoned for help on the M50 motorway , a court was told yesterday , writes Heather Mills . |
| 5 | When we assembled for Cabinet on 8 October we found that the Prime Minister had suffered a severe attack of his prostate gland trouble during the night and had to see his doctor again . |