Example sentences of "[noun prp] [coord] [verb] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glad of our meeting in Vancouver and hope for a reunion in New York , Moscow , Samarkand or the Volga ’ . |
| 2 | He joined Guinness in 1952 as an Under Brewer and worked for a number of years on 24 hour shifts under the guidance of the late . |
| 3 | It was made the more difficult because the Iranians were at one remove from the hostage-takers ; even at best , all they could promise was to lean on Hizbollah and ask for a favour . |
| 4 | Six members of the PP had been arrested on April 6 on the orders of a magistrate in Valencia and questioned for a week about their involvement in irregular financial dealings to obtain political donations for the party worth 2,000 million pesetas ( about US$19,000,000 ) . |
| 5 | She contrasted this unfavourably with the simple needs of the Masai and tried for a while to live on their diet of milk and maize meal . |
| 6 | Another month passed while they continued the old routines before company orders revealed that they were to march south to the Marne and prepare for a counter-attack against General von Ludendorff . |
| 7 | He goes up to a kiosk in Wenceslas Square and asks for a copy of Rude Pravo ( Red Truth ) , the Party newspaper . |
| 8 | The Rutherglen Councillors were bribed by the Glasgow candidate 's supporters , as were their wives with presents of dresses and finery , but the Dixon supporters among the Rutherglen Councillors were invited down to Dumbarton and entertained for a period of ten days , including a cruise on Loch Lomond , a climb to the top of the ben and a stay at the inns at Dumbarton , Tarbet , Luss and Port of Menteith . |
| 9 | It has even been mistakenly argued that at some point during the 1320s he fled to Paris and studied for a while at the Sorbonne . |
| 10 | They welcomed last month 's initiative by Mr Bush and called for a summit with him within 90 days . |
| 11 | All state secondary schools are required by law to publish their results once a year and so now you can write or phone individual school secretaries or the LEA and ask for a copy of the exam results , ideally asking for the previous 2 or 3 years . |
| 12 | President Roh Tae Woo denounced the assault on Chung and called for a crackdown on student unrest . |
| 13 | Leith only just managed to stop her jaw from dropping at the astuteness of the man when he continued , ‘ Having left Ardis and applied for a job here , you then made a conscious decision to dress down your looks and conceal your figure , though not because of any sexual hang-up ? |
| 14 | When I came to the Cotswolds and looked for a studio , before I even looked for house , I found a great barn , a wonderful old building , except that it was cathedral-like and freezing cold in the winter . |
| 15 | I smelled some recurrence of the tension between him and Laura and looked for a way to open the subject . |