Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] for [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between then and 1872 Millend was advertised for sale by auction on several occasions . |
| 2 | IN 1981 ex-police officer and Playboy bunny girl Lawrencia ‘ Bambi ’ Bembeneck was jailed for life for the murder of her husband 's ex-wife at home in Milwaukee . |
| 3 | Activism was obviously important , so Sheila Rowbotham was contacted for help with the ‘ Meet the Fuzz ’ section . |
| 4 | For example , the Dalradian succession in Scotland was chosen for attention by the MRP because it included the stratiform ‘ pyrite belt ’ similar to the area around the economic Stekenjokk Cu-Zn-Pb deposit in Sweden . |
| 5 | Lorna Doone was converted for use as a special vehicle for disabled passengers from a coach supplied by the line 's supporting body the West Somerset Railway Association . |
| 6 | On 28 April 1558 , only four days after Mary 's marriage , an old man called Walter Myln was burned for heresy at St Andrews . |
| 7 | Eddie Browning was jailed for life for the murder of Marie Wilkes from Worcester in 1988 . |
| 8 | Tyrone was to search for evidence of further concealed Coal Measures . |
| 9 | Yesterday Patrick Hassett was jailed for life for her murder . |
| 10 | The Van Railway was opened for freight in 1871 and for passengers in 1873 . |
| 11 | John Wood Group PLC 's £1,000 commission was awarded to Andrew Braidwood and his piece entitled Hamburg was purchased for display in John Wood House . |
| 12 | Sole practitioner John Patrick O'Donnell was committed for trial to Southwark Crown Court at a hearing at Horseferry Magistrates Court last month . |
| 13 | Cos erm , apparently erm Trevor was working for Bettaware for Avon and they had the Social Services round to say that I hear that your working and they do toy parties and they said no , I mean there not making a living out of it , it 's was just |
| 14 | Corporal Harry Farr was shot for cowardice in October nineteen sixteen . |
| 15 | Last December , her boyfriend John Tanner was jailed for life for her murder . |
| 16 | Mata Mua ( In Olden Times ) by Gauguin was sent for sale by Jaime Ortiz- Patino , grandson of the Bolivian tin magnate Antenor Patino . |
| 17 | Lisburn man Bobby Corry was jailed for life in 1986 for what a judge described as the ‘ savage and reckless murder ’ of a caretaker in Belfast 14 years earlier . |
| 18 | As a result , one of the DCs was submitted for assessment to this person ; the other DC was agreed immediately since it affected no other package . |
| 19 | Forty-seven year old Trevor Hanson was jailed for life in nineteen seventy-one after a string of sex attacks in the Huddersield area of West Yorkshire . |
| 20 | Extradition from Britain was blocked for fear of unsettling the post-war anti-Communist government of Italy . |
| 21 | The former mill town of Earby was chosen for proximity to Barnoldswick and its Rolls Royce aero-engine plant , which meant a pool of vital skills |
| 22 | A Council of Europe convention on minority languages in Europe was opened for signature on Nov. 5 , when it was signed by 11 of the 27 member states . |
| 23 | Durkin was dressed for motoring in a long white dust coat and cap . |
| 24 | A former member of the ruling Kuomintang ( KMT ) and head of the DPP 's moderate Formosa faction , Hsu was imprisoned for sedition on his return from exile in 1989 , but was released in a presidential amnesty in 1990 . |
| 25 | Armstrong was tried for murder at Hereford Assizes . |
| 26 | Today 59 year old Ronald Godfrey was committed for trial at the Crown Court . |
| 27 | Among its first acts in office , the new government , committed to sweeping economic reforms aimed at the introduction of a market-based economy , announced on Dec. 11 , 1989 , that Czechoslovakia was applying for membership of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and the World Bank . |
| 28 | After thirty years as an administrator in the National Health Service and an adviser on policing , Miss James was enlisted for service in the corps of commissionaires of British public life . |
| 29 | The border from West into East Berlin was closed for part of the day . |
| 30 | The following morning , while Morgan was waiting for Stieber at London Airport , Buckmaster joined Marler in the dining-room . |