Example sentences of "[noun prp] 's [noun] [to-vb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went downstairs to the phone in my dressing-gown , pausing only for a second outside Toby 's door to listen for the typewriter , which was silent , and for another moment outside Mavis 's to leave her snuff-box . |
| 2 | Did Manchester United 's relegation to Division Two , England 's failure to qualify for the Argentina Soccer World Cup , Australia 's mid-70s cricket XI , see the demise of their sport ? |
| 3 | England 's failure to qualify for the 1974 World Cup finals saw Moore 's departure from the national scene . |
| 4 | Konstantinos Karamanlis , a former state President and founder of New Democracy , had on Feb. 10 turned down ND 's request to stand for the presidency . |
| 5 | Bus companies are expected to be among those competing with ScotRail 's managers to bid for the franchise . |
| 6 | Crawford 's willingness to suffer for the good of the show , beyond the call of duty , was an early example of the masochistic rigours he would endure for the sake of comedy . |
| 7 | In July 1940 Bletchley had intercepted a message from Goering to the chiefs of staff of the Luftwaffe in which was made clear Hitler 's intention to prepare for the invasion of Britain — ‘ Operation Sea Lion ’ , as it was code-named . |
| 8 | Paisley 's rebuttal of Murphy 's claims to speak for the majority of local people was characteristically florid : |