Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun prp] for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To mark the country 's first successful bone marrow transplant involving an un-related donor , Norwegian television arranged for her to meet Janet for the first time in front of an estimated two-and-a-half million viewers . |
| 2 | He remounted immediately and set off in pursuit of the other runners , but as a Gold Cup trial the race was a mess , and the announcement that Jonjo O'Neill was once more to replace Mullins for the big race came as no surprise . |
| 3 | The Oak said , ‘ But we have lent our aid to the Royal Houses of the Beastline in times of extreme danger and we have also fought to regain Tara for the rightful heir . ’ |
| 4 | Having been frustrated in her 1988 cruise to Scandinavia , Islander headed north-east once more last summer and this time succeeded in passing through the Limfjord , sailing down the Kattegat and up into the Baltic as far as Stockholm before retracing her steps to visit Copenhagen for the second time on this voyage . |
| 5 | THE Queen is to visit Lockerbie for the first time since the air disaster there more than four years ago . |
| 6 | The initial function of the role is to pass on information that the Nazarenes will have to leave Nazareth for the Roman census . |
| 7 | Dai Qing , a dissident journalist detained by the authorities during the Nov. 15-17 visit to Beijing by US Secretary of State James Baker [ see p. 38575 ] , was allowed to leave China for the United State on Dec. 22 . |
| 8 | MR TONY BANKS , Labour MP for Newham North West , said yesterday he was proposing to leave Westminster for the European Parliament , writes Philip Johnston . |
| 9 | Since Death in Venice is also to be performed , would it not have been better to keep Grimes for the new house and to have included a Rossini opera as a nostalgic as well as topical reminder of golden evenings ? |
| 10 | The main purpose of Levin 's article , however , is to reclaim Debord for the aesthetic discourse of avant-garde cinema . |
| 11 | Suddenly they seemed to notice Brenda for the first time . |
| 12 | But she and the children are expected to join Andrew for the Royal Family 's annual get-together at Balmoral in Scotland today . |
| 13 | Veljko Kadijevic , the National Defence Minister , in a speech to the Collective State Presidency , responding to the EC peace plan , accused Germany of " being about to attack Yugoslavia for the third time this century , … preparing first for an economic and then a military assault " . |