Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [noun prp] for the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In my room I fell to my knees to thank God for the sign he had sent me , and waited eagerly for daylight .
2 She swung round , her swollen eyes searching Duncan for the truth .
3 In Whit Week 1850 over 200,000 day-trippers left Manchester for the countryside and the sea .
4 According to the Middle East Times of Oct. 13 , Syrian officials blamed Turkey for the failure of the talks .
5 The remainder of the qualifiers played Stableford for the Rentokil Cup , and once again the winners were from Environmental Services , Richard Wooding from Pest Control , Mike Bayley from Medical Services and Sal Akram from Pest Control Newcastle .
6 It was almost a carbon copy of Kiwomya 's matchwinner in last week 's Coca-Cola Cup encounter with Aston Villa — the bookies ' favourites to overhaul Norwich for the Championship .
7 ALMOST 24 hours late , the first of several chartered trains left Prague for the West last night , carrying some of the 12,000 East German emigrants who had spent another night and a day on the chilly pavements around the West German embassy or in the embassy 's increasingly squalid grounds .
8 I looked at his young wife , Dawn , with her four young children visiting Salisbury for the week-end .
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