Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] for [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that means an end to the gripe of Northern Ireland people having to pay an ‘ add on ’ supplement to get to Heathrow or Gatwick for their intercontinental flight . |
| 2 | Although Wordsworth had produced more poems than Coleridge for their joint volume , Lyrical Ballads , honour was satisfied by giving the long Ancient Mariner — or Ancyent Marinere as it was originally spelt — pride of place . |
| 3 | Over £60,000 was in the king 's Treasury in November 1326 , but some of this was spent paying off the force of Hainault mercenaries which Isabella had recruited for her invasion in 1326 ; some of it was simply appropriated by Mortimer and Isabella for their personal use , and some of it had to be used to finance the war against the Scots which was renewed in the summer of 1327 . |
| 4 | And while there were crudely economic motives in , for example , sending Hitchcock to reconstruct English and Oriental settings in Italy and Germany for his first film , The Pleasure Garden ( 1925 ) , it did at least show that he was as aware as the Film Society 's membership of the backwardness of British films . |
| 5 | An inspiring coach , he was in considerable demand by both Oxford and Cambridge for their boat-race crews throughout the 1890s . |
| 6 | George Stephen was not so poor an historian as to refuse credit to other parliamentarians such as Lushington , Brougham and Denman who could not be accounted Claphamites , nor to nonconformity in the country , nor to Emmanuel Cooper the Quaker for his work in the Agency nor Cropper and Sturge for their financial support of the Agency . |
| 7 | As she ran up to her room she was , for the first time in her life , actively grateful to Phoebe and Rachel for their absolute laws of tidiness . |
| 8 | When I moved to the Western Isles of Scotland I found I had no need to go as far as Norway for my Elysian coast ; there were mountains and sea in plenty right at my doorstep . |