Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [to-vb] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd stopped in Port Patrick harbour to wait for the tide . |
| 2 | He had reached the age when friends and companions were beginning to die around him , and in the spring of this year he composed memorial addresses for two of them : William Collin Brooks , who ten years before had encouraged Valerie Fletcher to apply for the post of Eliot 's secretary , and Father Eric Cheetham , who had " taken in " Eliot after the separation from Vivien . |
| 3 | The union 's national executive is calling for a ‘ yes ’ vote and is likely to ask Nottinghamshire businesses to close for the day when a strike is called . |
| 4 | They came the Friday night to go for the midnight mail you know the one that comes to meet the boat . |
| 5 | The TAC has short-listed Horner Collis & Kirvan and Bainsfair Sharkey Trott to bid for the account . |
| 6 | I 've got an obit of poor old Eddy Moulton to do for the Journalist . |
| 7 | Three ministers have also been forced out over the past two weeks , an unprecedented exodus which prompted Mr Amato to call for the vote . |
| 8 | particular animal and then ask Mr Williamson to or Mr Potter to conclude for the county . |
| 9 | Mitchel McLaughlin revealed that the party will be nominating former blanket-protest prisoner Cathal Crumley to run for the party in the October poll . |
| 10 | In fact the rot set in 15 years ago when Dr Coggan asked for a meeting with Jim Callaghan to lobby for the Church to be exempted from a two per cent surcharge on employers ' National Insurance contributions . |
| 11 | In 1487 King John of Portugal sent Pedro da Covilham to search for the kingdom of Prester John . |
| 12 | You do n't have to be a Mike Gatting to play for the Wimpey cricket team . |
| 13 | In the event of my dying before remarriage , I DEVISE and BEQUEATH all of my real and personal estate whatsoever and wheresoever not already disposed of as to my freeholds in fee simple and as to my personal estate absolutely to the issue of my union with JACQUELINE MYRTLE MITCHELL , the property to be held in trust for the said issue , the trust allowing monthly sum of not less than FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS to the said JACQUELINE MYRTLE MITCHELL to pay for the upbringing of the said issue , this arrangement to cease on his or her attaining the age of twenty-one years , whereupon a quarter of the remaining estate — whether in freehold property , stocks , shares or chattels shall be granted in perpetuity to the said JACQUELINE MYRTLE MITCHELL , and the remainder to be granted to the said issue . |
| 14 | US current account deficits meant an outflow of US dollars to pay for the goods and services purchased abroad that created the deficit . |
| 15 | At the end of it , Robert Kennedy was dead and McCarthy was defeated in the nervousness that engulfed American politics , leaving Hubert Humphrey to battle for the White House with Richard Nixon . |
| 16 | Alberto Tomba , after a fall in the Valloire super giant slalom , ducked Val d'Isere to prepare for the home snow of Sestriere , one of the toughest slalom slopes in the world . |
| 17 | The Niue Assembly comprises 20 members ( 14 village representatives and six elected on a common roll ) and has legislative authority , but it can also request New Zealand to legislate for the island . |
| 18 | He introduced Graeme Knox and Jim Mitchell to perform for the Company . |
| 19 | ‘ I may even have to sell the house in Ladbroke Grove to pay for the losses . ’ |
| 20 | This approval will allow Rolls Wood Group to compete for the maintenance of the Rolls-Royce owned fleet of Avon , Olympus and RB211 gas turbines which are leased to customers . |