Example sentences of "a [noun sg] for the [noun sg] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But first I want to do a line drawing from it , which can be used as a frontispiece for the book when it is published . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I have attempted to see Queen Yolande to ask her why she did not send out a search-party for the King when he failed to arrive at Kinghorn Manor . |
| 3 | Duncan , a Cambridge graduate , had also been a candidate for the post when Peirson had been appointed in 1647 , but the Company , anxious to avoid any trouble and to be reconciled with the townspeople , had on both occasions chosen Stockport 's nominee . |
| 4 | They were straying back into the realms of evidence , and that would be a matter for the court when the Proof was heard . |
| 5 | Virchow , it is worth noting , provided a precedent for the suggestion when he held that the simian cast to bones of Neanderthal man reflected not a separate line in the evolution of Homo but rickets in man living during the Wu∘rm ice age . |