Example sentences of "to [noun prp] for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A thin , stoop-shouldered Frenchman wearing a pince-nez who had been watching and listening from the curbside , stepped into the road suddenly and leaned close enough to Chuck for the American boy to smell the garlic on his breath . |
| 2 | I travelled down to Gateshead for the big meeting there , Great Britain versus the Commonwealth , and was witness to one of the most amazing come-backs in British sprinting history made by , who else , that old war-horse Allan Wells . |
| 3 | The Russian army team will earn more in the four-day trip to Germany for the European Cup crunch than they would in a month back home . |
| 4 | ‘ I remember coming up to Middlesbrough for the final game with Oxford , which Boro won 4–0 , ’ he recalled . |
| 5 | He was not allowed to go to Brussels for the European premiere of his play The Crucible . |
| 6 | Scotland travel to Portugal for the vital tie on 28 April . |
| 7 | Which horse was it you backed let's see how it faired as we cross to Stanton for the big race |
| 8 | McCallen is hoping that the Honda will remain in one piece after tomorrow for it travels on to Donington for the British Championship meeting the next day where it will be ridden by Steve Hislop with McCallen reverting to the slower RC30 Honda . |
| 9 | Jacobsen flew back to Washington for the ritual photocall with the president at the White House on 7 November and when reporters asked Reagan about the arms deal story the president said it had ‘ no foundation ’ . |
| 10 | All roads leading to Portrush for the annual motorcycle race today were heavily congested with police re-issuing warnings to race-goers to drive carefully to avoid possible accidents in the area . |
| 11 | Another local family off to Aintree for the big day are the Lees from Byton in Herefordshire . |
| 12 | Ferguson was in the Scottish pool of players that travelled to Sweden for the European Championship . |
| 13 | Each opens with thanks addressed to Jesus for the particular incident of the Passion under consideration and closes with a prayer which first applies this incident to aspects of the meditator 's own life and then modulates into a set pattern indicated by the Latin directives Pater Noster , Et ne nos , Adoramus , Aue [ Our Father , And [ lead ] us not , we praise , Hail ] . |
| 14 | But she will , it is believed , take sons William , 10 and Harry , eight , to Sandringham for the traditional opening of presents on Christmas Eve . |
| 15 | Cantona , who flew to Paris for the top-rated chat show Sacree Soiree after his United debut in Lisbon on Tuesday , added : ‘ I am fit and I enjoyed myself in the opener against Benfica . |
| 16 | The intentions of the vigils were to give thanks to God for the precious gift of human life , and to also pray for an end to the abuses of this gift , by abortion , destructive embryo experimentation , and euthanasia . |
| 17 | All United States economic aid to Yugoslavia for the fiscal year 1991 ( amounting to about US$5,000,000 ) , as well as US support for credits in international financial institutions , was frozen as of May 6 . |
| 18 | Boulton did not refuse outright but managed to get some mine owners to donate 10 guineas ( £10.50 ) to Murdock for the good work he had done on their engines . |
| 19 | By July 22-23 the renewed offensive mounted by the Shining Path in Lima — in the form of further car bombs in the capital , together with calls for a general strike — was sufficiently serious for President Alberto Fujimori to cancel his planned trip to Europe for the Ibero-American summit [ see p. 39003 ] . |
| 20 | CANON Kevin Byrne is leading a Diocesan Pilgrimage to Seville for the Eucharistic Congress from Monday , June 7 to Monday , June 14 . |
| 21 | AT THEIR full meeting on August 3 , North Cornwall District Council overwhelmingly endorsed the earlier recommendation by the Planning Committee to approve the relaying of the former Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway branch-line to Wenfordbridge for the principal purpose of carrying china clay . |
| 22 | Swindon 's four-goal warning to Oxford for the Anglo-Italian Cup . |
| 23 | Not only was he engaged in his publishing work , his meetings of the Moot and the Chandos Group , and his visits to Oxford for the Christian News Letter , but also he set himself a punishing schedule of conferences , talks and lectures ; in the first week of January 1941 , for example , there were six full days of such conferences . |
| 24 | In 1978 , I went over to France for the final day of the parliamentary elections , expecting to stay up for most of the night as one would in the UK . |
| 25 | KENDALL SQUARE GOES TO FRANCE FOR THE RIGHT OBJECT DATABASE FOR PARALLEL KIT |
| 26 | Voice of the Broad Masses of Eritrea radio announced from Asmara on Sept. 26 that the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ) was to send observers to Eritrea for the planned referendum on independence in April 1993 [ see p. 38855 ] . |
| 27 | Ex-Great Britain assistant team boss Larder hands the full-back jersey to Davies for the tough opener against Castleford following the departure of Alan Tait to Leeds . |
| 28 | LAURA DAVIES , the four-year-old Manchester girl who underwent life-saving organ transplants in the United States last year , has returned to Pittsburgh for the possible removal of another organ , an enlarged spleen . |
| 29 | Is it plausible that Pilate , or any other military governor in his situation , would have dispatched upwards of five or six hundred troops to Gethsemane for the sole purpose of arresting one man — a solitary prophet extolling love , who was attended by twelve disciples ? |
| 30 | When you consider that there are 120 dealers in the are you can appreciate why Bath is second only to London for the serious hunter . |