Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [noun prp] [noun sg] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had Darren home for weekends once a month . |
| 2 | Referring to Samantha Thompson , the teenager who was injured as she took Johnathan shopping for Mother 's Day gifts , he said : ‘ To injure a young innocent girl as well who went everywhere with him — that girl Samantha was like a mother to him . |
| 3 | She attended Bedford College for Women and entered University College London in 1871 , where she studied law and political economy , winning in 1876 first prize in Roman law and the Hume scholarship in jurisprudence . |
| 4 | First of all you offer Jim Beam for letter of the week , then the remuneration for ‘ Country Life ’ is supplemented by a bottle of Aberlour and now the caption competition is sponsored by J&B . |
| 5 | Now we have Quattro Pro for DOS version 4 to contend with , released at virtually the same time as a Windows version that looks like causing quite a stir as well . |
| 6 | In 1691 Gascoyne mapped the estates of James Cecil , third Earl of Salisbury [ q.v. ] ; the following year he mapped Sayes Court for John Evelyn [ q.v. ] , and in 1692 he was directed by Samuel Travers , surveyor of land revenue to King William and Queen Mary , to make a survey of the ‘ Mannor of East Greenwich in Kent ’ following the grant by the monarchs of ‘ the house at Greenwich to be a hospital for wounded seamen ’ . |
| 7 | Ever since he watched Grobbelaar play for Crewe at Fratton Park 13 years ago , Knight has been an admirer of the extrovert Zimbabwe international . |
| 8 | If it gave Eva pause for thought it certainly did n't show in any relaxation of the pace she set herself . |
| 9 | He left Selhurst Park for Aston Villa in November 1987 , amid a storm of controversy , for just £150,000 , but Steve Coppell brought him back to the Palace from Queens Park Rangers in a £ l/2 million deal upon the eve of our return to Division One in August 1989 . |
| 10 | Middlesbrough fans will be pleased to see Simon Green in action following an horrific accident after he left Cleveland Park for Sheffield last season . |