Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [was/were] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joel Gascoyne was apprenticed for a period of seven years from 21 October 1668 to John Thornton . |
| 2 | Kathleen Hennessy was spoiling for a fight . |
| 3 | Ronnie Barker was hoping for a peaceful life when he retired six years ago . |
| 4 | DAVID Mellor was heading for the political scrapheap last night after Downing Street revealed that he did NOT seek permission for his ‘ freebie ’ holiday with Mona Bauwens . |
| 5 | RONNIE O'Sullivan was beaten for the first time in 25 snooker matches last night — Dave Finbow thrashed him 5-0 in the Dubai Classic . |
| 6 | Towards the end of the fourteenth century an Office for St Richard Hermit was written for the Priory in the hope of his canonisation . |
| 7 | In 1669 , Richard Baxter was arrested for the ‘ illegal ’ worship meetings held in his home . |
| 8 | His interest began after David Berkowitz was arrested for the Son of Sam murders , one of the most notorious murder cases in US criminal history . |
| 9 | Meanwhile the real Dustin Hoffman was waiting for a role to prove that he would have a post- Graduate career . |
| 10 | A Christmas tree was put up in Moscow 's Red Square for the first time , and on Christmas Eve the bells of St Basil 's Cathedral in Red Square were rung for the first time since 1917 . |
| 11 | IF JEFFREY Archer were looking for a plot for his next novel , he could do worse than examine the rise and rise of Mr John Major 's first female Cabinet ministers , Mrs Virginia Bottomley and Mrs Gillian Shephard . |
| 12 | A woolly-jumpered Colin Wilson was photographed for the press in his Notting Hill bedsit and under the tree in Hampstead Heath where he had worked on his best-seller The Outsider , a paean to the existential rebel Wilson wished to be . |
| 13 | Ben Gill was re-elected for a second year as deputy , and Tony Pexton for a second year as vice-president . |
| 14 | In elections held on March 28-30 , President Robert Mugabe was re-elected for a further term , and his ruling ZANU-PF party won 116 of the 120 elective seats in a restructured 150-member House of Assembly . |
| 15 | Mr. Gillespie was proposed for the Office . |
| 16 | The dark blue £415,000 car was stopped between Preston and Lancaster on Sunday as Mr Vilaseca was heading for a holiday in Scotland . |
| 17 | Mr Bragge was applying for an injunction on behalf of French champagne producers Taittinger and the champagne growers ' association , to prevent Mr Woodall and his partner , Mr Ray Bevan , 39 , selling their product in bottles labelled ‘ champagne ’ . |
| 18 | Fortunately she had no time to find the answer , as Mr Pumblechook was calling for a hot rum to remove the taste of the medicine . |
| 19 | The exiled Leon Trotsky was calling for the overthrow of Stalin , then engaged in his most murderous of purges . |
| 20 | MODERATE supporters of President Rafsanjani were heading for an overwhelming victory over Iranian hardliners last night , according to the latest tally of returns from parliamentary elections held on Friday . |
| 21 | Mr Heseltine was working for a 50:50 hybrid tax , split between property and head-tax . |
| 22 | The scientist Robert Boyle was looking for a method of preserving corpses so that they could be used for summer as well as winter tutorials . |
| 23 | In the office beyond the grille , Mr Saleb was calling for the book . |
| 24 | On Sept. 15 the border between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia was opened for the first time since the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on Aug. 2 . |
| 25 | If Louis Vuitton were paid for every LV logo in the souks , he could surely buy Marrakech . |
| 26 | Mr Prescott was selected for the British team last September after being awarded second place in the Mr Universe contest . |
| 27 | When Louis Benjamin was looking for a stopgap for Drury Lane between 42nd Street 's closure and Miss Saigon 's opening , the only production which could fill London 's biggest theatre was Dame Edna 's one-woman show : one Australian housewife outdrew the huge casts of the big-budget musicals . |
| 28 | Mike Ford then shot over the bar from thirty yards , and in the thirtieth minute , Graham Hogg was booked for a challenge on Lee Nogan ; Hogg who 'd performed so well at the heart of the Portsmouth defence . |
| 29 | As the Cabinet met for an unprecedented late-night session , Mr Major was searching for a way out of the deadlock that would help Chancellor Norman Lamont unveil a mini-Budget for recovery next week . |
| 30 | As the Cabinet met for an unprecedented late-night session , Mr Major was searching for a way out of the deadlock that would help Chancellor Norman Lamont unveil a mini-Budget for recovery next week . |