Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Former Massachusetts senator Paul Tsongas , 50 , who abandoned politics in 1984 after being diagnosed as suffering from cancer , became the first person to declare his candidacy for the Democratic Party 's nomination for the 1992 presidential elections . |
| 2 | Archie would probably be Wilko 's first choice given his preference for older players , but may settle on the younger version . |
| 3 | The first designer to unveil his collection for the spring season was Rifat Ozbek , whose successor as designer of the year , is to be announced on Tuesday at the British Fashion Awards at the Royal Albert Hall . |
| 4 | Nine Conservative MPs from the right and left of the party , including three former ministers , met Mr Patten last night to press their case for additional funds . |
| 5 | DEAN SAUNDERS last night pleaded his innocence for the challenge that may have put Paul Elliott out for the season . |
| 6 | POLICE last night repeated their appeal for witnesses to a town centre attack which has left a young man fighting for his life . |
| 7 | A CARE assistant last night lost her claim for unfair dismissal against Europe 's biggest private nursing home . |
| 8 | ICL last week announced its support for Texas Instruments Inc 's superscalar Viking Sparc — see front page — which will figure in a top-end , multi-processing DRS6000 Model 764 . |
| 9 | THE US Congress last week made its pitch for a massive increase in spending on maths and science education . |
| 10 | Mr Hawke last week repeated his support for the airlines recruiting new pilots overseas and re-hiring their former pilots on individual contracts . |
| 11 | Soviet and Vietnamese officials could not , however , simply replace the ZOPFAN proposal with one of their own since the Third World confirmed its support for a zone of peace , freedom and neutrality at the Delhi and Harare Non-Aligned Summits in 1983 and 1986 . |
| 12 | She may be going to St Petersburg next summer to do her thesis for Harvard . ’ |
| 13 | SERC decided earlier last year to cut its budget for neutron sources by £5m and it was announced last November that the government would be renegotiating its contribution to the neutron source at the Institut Laue-Langevin ( ILL ) in Grenoble , France . |