Example sentences of "be [verb] [noun prp] [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | FOUR men are suing Merseyside Police for damages after they waited nearly four years to face charges only for the Crown Prosecution Service to offer no evidence when their cases came to court . |
2 | An angry managing director of the computer magazine told The Guardian newspaper in November 1982 , ‘ we are suing Mr Kahn for £18,000 in cash , but have been unable to contact him ’ . |
3 | Dairy Crest are suing Mr Rollings for damages , claiming he canvassed for custom while he was still working for them . |
4 | Their two boys of three and five would be eating Jaffa cakes for breakfast , lunch and supper if their parents did n't insist that they eat up most of what is put in front of them . |
5 | POL Roger has been appointed UK agent for Pipers Brook Vineyard , Tasmania . |
6 | The club 's planes were usually Tiger Moths in the main , and as I remember the main airport building adjacent to the main road , pre war , were building Swallow side-cars for motorbikes . |
7 | Tarmac is to sell Briggs Oil for £70m to Swedish AB Nynas Petroleum . |
8 | US group Gillette is to buy Parker Pen for £285m . |
9 | Gupta Corp is to ship Gupta SQLBase for UnixWare in the third quarter of 1993 — the server will be priced at between $5,000 and $10,000 . |
10 | Now Cronenberg has finally realised his long-cherished project of making a movie out of The Naked Lunch ( London cinemas from 24 April ) — but he has already been filming William Burroughs for years . |
11 | MOST Labour MPs in the NorthEast are backing John Smith for party leader , according to the official lists of nominations . |
12 | My mission , should I decide to accept it , was to find Jack Scamp for Malpass before Nevil found me for Jack Scamp . |
13 | Indeed he was appointed London correspondent for EVO when it was launched , a fact that initially escaped Miles , since he was unaware it existed until the third issue . |
14 | In 1990 , the EPA was devising fine particulate ( PM 10 ) equivalents to replace the TSP increments and was introducing PSD increments for oxides of nitrogen . |
15 | This dilemma was to preoccupy Miss Logan for years to come . |
16 | His first act was to sign Chris Woods for £1.2m , and since then he has added Chris Waddle for £1m , Mark Bright , Nigel Jemson and Paul Warhust , each for a little less , and Chris Bart-Williams at the age of 17 for nearly £400,000 . |