Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had arranged March for the wedding . |
| 2 | I wanted the sugar and rather than wait for the waiter to return or ask this boy to get it , I asked Harvey for the sugar . |
| 3 | In the August 1949 election the German people favoured the CDU ( 31 per cent ) over the SPD ( 29 per cent ) , and other parties too proved willing to support Adenauer for the Chancellorship . |
| 4 | His general note was one of chiding MacDonald for the weakness of his control over his own extremists and suggesting that what the country needed was men of practical experience , breadth of view and lack of dogmatic commitment . |
| 5 | He asked Sarah for the photo and he was doing his usual stuff , you know , hand on heart . |
| 6 | I see that Wetherall got MOTM for the game on Saturday from one of the tabloids , so much for me saying he was at fault for the goals . |
| 7 | Loretta decided she would have to abandon her attempt to see Veronica for the rest of the day . |
| 8 | Angie Bowie : I actually met David for the first time when he was with feathers at the Roundhouse and I was with the European head of Mercury Records , a gentleman called Lou Reisner . |
| 9 | He made his official Palace debut in the FA Cup tie with QPR on 5 January 1946 and was between the posts when Palace met Mansfield for the first post-war League match on 31 August 1946 . |
| 10 | It is only now , almost five years after the fact , that the US press corps and America 's allies are beginning to see Gramm-Rudman-Hollings for the hoax that it is . |
| 11 | Unacknowledged , it 's been that way for several years , as we have regularly tried to point out here as others wrongly gave the crown to Digital Equipment Corp , but both the Wall Street Journal and Datamation magazine have at last come round to agreeing that Fujitsu Ltd is the world 's second-largest computer company — with NEC Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co both now challenging DEC for the third place . |
| 12 | BHUTAN : AI visited Bhutan for the first time in January at the invitation of King Jigme Wangchuck . |
| 13 | To run Windows 3.0 CompuAdd also includes a choice of Microsoft packages : Excel for Windows , the powerful , new-generation spreadsheet which takes over where Lotus 1-2-3 leaves off ; Word for Windows , now challenging WordPerfect for the number one word-processing slot , with its ability to import graphics and manage text ; and PowerPoint for Windows , for producing graphics-based slides , charts , overheads at new levels of professionalism . |
| 14 | Relations between the two countries improved in 1985 when the Chinese Foreign Minister visited Indonesia for the commemorative Afro-Asian Conference in Bandung ; later that year a memorandum of understanding on the resumption of direct trade links was signed [ see p. 34235 ] . |
| 15 | The display is now set to tour Scotland for the remainder of the centenary year , taking in several locations which have strong MacDiarmid associations — Langholm , where he was born ; Montrose where his masterpiece A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle was composed ; and Lanark , close to Brownsbank where he spent the later years of his life . |
| 16 | A year later Moore captained England for the first time , against Czechoslovakia . |
| 17 | ‘ We want May for the villa , ’ Elinor interrupted . |
| 18 | They will also be showered with gifts like top-of-the-range Mercedes cars and luxury apartments if they can spring a World Cup upset and beat England for the first time . |
| 19 | Also representing Scotland for the first time today will be the Ferguslie all-rounder , Stuart Kennedy , who follows in the footsteps of brother , Iain , who was capped six times . |
| 20 | Konstantinos Kosmopoulos retained Salonika for the ND with 50.9 per cent , beating the Pasok-Left Coalition candidate . |
| 21 | Some of the singers knew their place in that production — almost miraculously , Gergiev had coaxed Sergei Leiferkus away from a couple of London Fiery Angels to sing Tomsky for old times ' sake — but one of Gergiev 's protégés , Gegam Gregorian , was tackling Hermann for the first time , and Maria Guleghina had flown in for Lisa . |
| 22 | In similarly insincere terms he thanks Duncan for the honours he has received from him : These speeches are subtly calculated by Shakespeare , for their insincerity is obvious to us ( the affected metaphors , the flabby repetitions ) but not to the recipients . |
| 23 | Last week a team of four pupils from Mill Chase — Simon Waddell , Elsa Donovan , Elaine Eddey and Georgina Matthews — accompanied by teacher Chris Waller , visited Bohunt for the quiz . |
| 24 | Piggott had replaced McHargue , then sitting out a suspension , on Commanche Run in the Gordon Stakes at Goodwood , which he won by a very wide margin ; and though the stable jockey was back on board for the colt 's victory in the March Stakes on the same course , his preparation race for the St Leger , Commanche Run 's owner Ivan Allan , claiming ‘ There 's only one St Leger and only one Lester , ’ insisted that his close friend Piggott replace McHargue for the Classic . |
| 25 | NORFOLK was drawn into the Medau web in 1960 after Madge Segger and Phyllis Ratcliffe , County Physical Education Advisers , visited Wembley for the Festival of Movement and Dance . |
| 26 | In November Nelson Mandela , deputy president of the African National Congress , visited Swaziland for the first time since his February release . |
| 27 | Huw Lloyd for the health authority . |
| 28 | In mid-November a United States congressional delegation visited China for the first time since the massacre . |
| 29 | To have released Meehan from seven years of wrongful imprisonment , recommended a free pardon for him , and then to have arrested and charged Waddell for the same crime would have required a greater degree of resolution than either of them possessed . |
| 30 | It was she who had interviewed Meg for the Old Rectory and Meg now found it difficult to connect that confident , tweeded , slightly aggressive woman with the two gentle old people she knew . |