Example sentences of "for [noun prp] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 He immediately set off for Germany in a van and the rest is history .
2 There is a danger of precipitating asystole or electromechanical dissociation , so this technique should not be used for VT with a pulse unless a defibrillator and pacemaker are immediately available .
3 McKinsey concluded that there was a potential future for AEA as a business but that the current organisation was not well structured to pursue it .
4 Wilkinson made his League debut for Grimsby as a teenager and scored after five minutes against Charlton Athletic .
5 In 1899 , he appeared once for Middlesex in an emergency and made a duck , but in 1900 , at the age of 37 , he appeared in J.T. Hearne 's benefit match against Somerset .
6 Worse still , his policy often proved counterproductive for Europe as a whole and for France .
7 By the mid-1980s , this became increasingly the accepted view of what the Thatcher years had meant for Britain as a society and a polity .
8 Only John of Ferentino , who acted for Innocent as a notary when subdeacon , was made a cardinal but he was not given the title of chancellor .
9 Added to this there was the alarming , although on closer inspection ambiguous , evidence of concerted communist plans for Asia as a whole that were discussed at the World Federation of Democratic Youth Conference in Calcutta in February 1948 .
10 Cagliari — population 225,000 , stadium capacity 38,800 — is a city with its own strong soccer culture , and its own football hero , Luigi Riva ( pictured below , and , left , as celebrated by a lifesize statue in a local bar ) , who played for Cagliari as a left-winger when they won their one Italian league title in 1970 and was a prodigious scorer .
11 There was more in the pitch than on the opening day for the quicker bowlers and with the second new ball Mark Ilott , playing his first game for Essex for a year after serious back problems kept him out of the game last season , was impressively hostile .
12 The director had a lot of respect for Douglas as an actor but since this was to be Silverstein 's first theatrical film he did n't want to have to find himself dealing with ‘ A consummate ego ’ , as he put it , and then added , ‘ no , huge ego ’ .
13 Sure enough , when Ambrose took it he did for Russell with a shooter and then disposed of the rest .
14 Dalgliesh had a respect for Morgan as a man and a detective but was grateful that either duty , tact or a mixture of both had taken him away .
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