Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [verb] [noun sg] for [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Labour under Kinnock ditched popularism for popularity .
2 Former Herioter Dr Bill Fiddes was fully occupied coping with the stream of injuries reaching the first aid room as three visitors in Harper , Gibson and Ireland also departed the field injured and with Selkirk assuming control for possession , Middleton and McConnell rampant at the line-outs , the home backs settled to the style of play inherited from John Rutherford for points to come thick and fast .
3 Burns was left out of the drawn League match at Wolves on Saturday to make way for loan signing Alan McLoughlin .
4 In May 1945 he was arrested by the American forces and taken to a Disciplinary Training Centre near Pisa , before being flown back to Washington to stand trial for treason .
5 In desperation , some of the men tried to dig their way through to Stourbridge to get coal for heating .
6 But when he suddenly took ill and returned to Hollywood to undergo surgery for lung cancer , his son Christopher helped polish up some of the last few scenes .
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