Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [vb past] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MALCOLM CROSBY yesterday called for a halt to the head-hunting season at Sunderland . |
| 2 | Mr Purtill also posed for a picture with Mr Major , managing to rustle up a sheepish grin . |
| 3 | Darlington councillor David Lyonette also called for a review of the law , adding : ‘ There are too many guns in the wrong hands . ’ |
| 4 | CC also pressed for a broadening of the existing LFA Directive to support other activities as well as agriculture . |
| 5 | The dating of years from the Incarnation of Jesus Christ — AD1 — started in England in the eighth century quite informally , and then spread throughout the countries of Western Europe with the exception of the Iberian peninsula , where a quite different system against a base of 1 January 38BC prevailed for a number of centuries . |
| 6 | But Robin still hungered for a night on the traps : so we found ourselves at the Harold Park Hotel , the crowds milling into the street , silhouetted against the lights of the adjacent Greyhound track . |
| 7 | Gordon also worked for a number of years as a P.C. with the Glasgow Police . |
| 8 | The Solidarity leader Lech Walesa also appealed for a return to work . |
| 9 | Attlee , Macmillan , Wilson , and Callaghan often waited for a policy line in Cabinet discussion to emerge before committing themselves . |
| 10 | Without Coleman 's knowledge , and without consulting the DIA ( on this basis , they had no reason to do so ) , either Hurley or Dany Habib had subsequently used those papers — in particular , the copy they had taken of Coleman 's Thomas Leavy birth certificate — to obtain a passport for one of their own people in Egypt , thus cocking the trigger for a possible violation alert when Coleman also applied for a passport in that name two years later . |
| 11 | THE brother of Alison Manwaring yesterday called for a referendum on the death penalty after the killer of his sister and father was jailed for life . |
| 12 | POLICE in the Castlemilk area of Glasgow yesterday appealed for a taxi driver to contact them , in the hope that he can provide a clue to the murder of 66-year-old Daniel Currie at the weekend . |
| 13 | Troubled Mr Major yesterday headed for a showdown with Euro-rebels by announcing he would put the Maastricht Treaty before Parliament around Christmas . |
| 14 | Mark Paul yesterday re-enacted for a jury how he killed a stranger with a single blow from a baseball bat . |
| 15 | Dexter even wondered for a moment whether he was drunk . |