Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [vb -s] for " in BNC.

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1 ANXIOUS : Mum Marie fears for Lucy
2 4–6–0 King Edward prepares for the Bulmer Railway Centre Gala Day this weekend .
3 David Snow settles for 65 species including one , the grey-winged cotinga , which he discovered himself in 1980 .
4 NEIL WEBB returns for Nottingham Forest today as manager Brian Clough makes a surprise shake-up of a winning team .
5 Full back Neil Pointon returns for Oldham after overcoming a knee injury .
6 Title : Jean Lassale Watches For People With A Passion
7 Stéphane Dumas looks for a soul in things that have been thrown away to continue their life as rubbish .
8 ABOVE : Oswald Parry is third from the left in the back row in this 1931 Palace team group ; BELOW : David Payne shoots for goal in the Palace match at Old Trafford on 11 April 1973 ; OPPOSITE : David celebrates with a Palace fan upon our promotion to Division One on 19 April 1969 .
9 In the town centre the Mounts Baths offers a fully equipped health suite , Turkish Bath and top class swimming pool , while Lings Forum , Weston Favell caters for badminton , basketball , five-aside football , athletics and swimming .
10 Miss Algar works for the Home Office and liaises with Number 10 . ’
11 Sir : In her article ( 'The child as a piece of disposable property' , 2 October ) , Sue Wells argues for a change in adoption law so as to bring it nearer an open adoption system , whereby adopted children remain in contact with birth parents .
12 Remember the bit in Citizen Kane when Orson Welles stands for election as congressman , but is felled by a ‘ Kane in Love Nest ’ scandal ?
13 David Hay calls for a " de-indoctrination " from secularism ( Hay 1990 : 109 ) .
14 The main museum building , which started life as the machinery hall at the first Glasgow International Exhibition of 1888 in Kelvingrove Park , moved to Dalmarnock in 1889 to become the Penman Boiler works for almost 100 years .
15 The latest appeal by Mother Teresa asks for blankets for Madras .
16 LONELY toddler Demelza Young cuddles for the first time the answer to her dreams — her new granny .
17 C. S. Lewis speaks for the conservatives here :
18 The choir of New College Oxford prepares for one of it 's most important performances .
19 Wrexham 's Neil Emberton runs for Wales in the Inter Area Cross Country event in Margate on November 15 .
20 University College London has for some years been offering a one-year postgraduate diploma course in librarianship to experienced graduate teachers . "
21 Johnny Mercer proselytises for the Catholics
22 ‘ The source of the obligation upon which Miss Thomas relies for her claim is the domestic laws of the university , its statutes and its ordinances .
23 A 6m zone stops 90% of walked in dirt , reducing maintenance costs of the floor covering beyond the Coral by 50% and the Coral Clean-off-Zone pays for itself in 6 months .
24 Neil Aconley returns for St Helens so David Eccles makes way .
25 Ben 's mother Sheila Silcock writes for the first time about her experiences .
26 Moya Hood has for the last year been teaching weekly classes at Stroud Court in Gloucestershire , a sheltered community opened in 1983 for autistic adolescents and adults .
27 It is here in the big crunch that Dr Tipler looks for God .
28 Most of what Aunt Lavvy does for me , she does from choice — over and above my allowance , that is , which is held in trust . ’
29 Readers of our great Vangmoor novelist , Alfred Osborn Tace ( or viewers , as one must say these days ! ) will be familiar with the scene in Wrenwood in which Brenda Nevil hunts for specimens of this orchid for her bridal bouquet .
30 This , then , is the shape and origin of the habitat that Loch Ness provides for the putative monster .
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