Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] [noun] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In March 1485 he was sent to Portugal to pursue negotiations for a bride for the recently widowed king , and he was thus out of England when Richard III was killed at Bosworth . |
| 2 | On Monday , work will begin on dismantling the railway bridge at Delves Lane and Station Road to make way for a roundabout on the new Consett by-pass . |
| 3 | The appellant was a South African citizen who had left South Africa to avoid apprehension for a burglary . |
| 4 | I drove round the proposed route on 17 September to check suitability for a coach . |
| 5 | York Benedictine monk Cyril Brooks has set himself a 100-mile a day challenge to cycle around Britain to raise money for a church convention . |
| 6 | Occasion is almost a synonym of cause in many contexts : ( 168 ) She asked Mathilda what occasioned Manfred to take Theodore for a spectre . |
| 7 | In December borough councillors from Darlington met transport minister Roger Freeman in London to discuss plans for a supermarket on a site occupied by the Caldaire bus company . |
| 8 | Liddell graduated from Edinburgh University a few days later ( 17 July ) , and enrolled at the Scottish Congregational College in Edinburgh to read divinity for a year , for he had long since decided to devote his life to missionary work , like his parents . |
| 9 | Blackadder and Wolf crossed in the second-half , when Scotland were at least able to ensnare some ball for Nicol , Dods and Townsend to release Stanger for a try , his second distinguishing act of the tie , having earlier pulled off a try-saving tackle . |