Example sentences of "[noun prp] for the [noun sg] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Levi had unsuccessfully challenged Itzhak Shamir for the party leadership in February [ see p. 38787 ] . |
| 2 | DeNiro 's also rumoured to be competing with James Woods for the villain role in Rob Reiner 's film version of the Broadway smash A Few Good Men . |
| 3 | Michael Mail , second violinist with the Mellstock Quire , from an illustrated edition of Under the Greenwood Tree published by Tinsley for the Christmas market in 1875 . |
| 4 | Looking at the special carpet , woven by Stoddard Mercia for the Town Hall in Paisley , Jim Maxwell ( right ) , Regional Sales Manager , is discussing the design with Robert Stevenson , Councillor for Elderslie . |
| 5 | In 1983 , long before the West felt able to give aid to Poland , the committee chose Lech Walesa for the Peace Prize in a gesture which embarrassed the Polish government and focused the attention of the world on the changes taking place in Warsaw . |
| 6 | Robert Hamer prepares Joan Greenwood for the trial scene in Kind hearts and Coronets ( 1949 ) |
| 7 | The Tribune Group voted against John Prescott 's challenge to Hattersley for the deputy leadership in 1988 after ruling that he should not be permitted to speak . |
| 8 | ‘ I beat Gary Jacobs for the Commonwealth title in Glasgow but my British return was more satisfying when I beat Kirkland Laing . ’ |