Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1346 Pope Clement VI rebuked Edward for a seizure which would imperil his soul , not to mention those of the sacrilegious laymen occupying church goods . |
| 2 | He invented a serious accident for his wife as an excuse not to see Eleanor for a while . |
| 3 | The word disturbed Maria for a while afterwards , although Cavell probably had n't given it any real thought , since she appeared so untroubled , her manner calmly confident and still strictly professional . |
| 4 | He invited Lila for a night out on the town . |
| 5 | ‘ Forget Dana for a moment — she 's not important , ’ Roman said urgently . |
| 6 | Renata Adler sat down at her typewriter at the New York Times and scolded Nicholson for a ‘ dreadfully written script ’ . |
| 7 | Once , after a long negotiation , Swire invited Bevin for a drink and a sandwich at the City of London Club , and was reprimanded by the chairman for having brought ‘ a working man into the club ’ . |
| 8 | WILL DOWNING visits Britain for a special one-off date to promote his forthcoming LP ‘ A Dream Fulfilled ’ on 4th & Broadway . |
| 9 | He fled Britain for a time to escape debts . |
| 10 | A young woman called Simone Thiroux had eyed Modigliani for a long time . |
| 11 | He over-valued the pound when we went into the ERM and , coupled with his insistence of achieving zero inflation , that is destroying industry , jobs , homes , families and any chance of rebuilding Britain for a better future . |
| 12 | Experience has shown that it is not enough to train PHCNs for a year and then send to isolated rural clinics . |
| 13 | De Benedetti disclosed that Hewlett-Packard Co had also approached Olivetti for a possible alliance , but declined to elaborate . |
| 14 | The match resulted in a win for Manchester who having batted first & scored 72 dismissed Bolton for a mere 14 runs . |
| 15 | He so impressed Kolbe that when the great German chemist , A. W. von Hofmann , professor at the Royal College of Chemistry in London , visited Marburg in 1858 he recommended Griess for a position in Hofmann 's laboratory . |
| 16 | The following Saturday morning I asked Granpa for a couple of hours off . |
| 17 | My guess is that Swod blames Mills for a lot of the operations that went wrong . ’ |
| 18 | This has long been one of my favourite Schnittke pieces , for its Russian-accented dodecaphony-on-stilts , for the post-Holocaust numbness of its third movement , and most of all for the unholy alliances of its finale , where Webern seems to be jiving to West Side Story and Shostakovich meets Vivaldi for a deadly serious jam session . |
| 19 | You have n't seen Alexander for a long time , have you ? |
| 20 | and , and , well and to you as well Viv but er I have n't seen Viv , I have n't seen Pete for a while . |
| 21 | " Aye , and plenty princes wanting England for a dowry , " n all , " Frank Polwhele put in . |
| 22 | They played Shostakovich for a week , before turning to Mozart . |
| 23 | Oh he 's in hospital , I did n't know a thing about it , I 've been saying when we 've been to the Pentam , we have n't seen Trevor for a while , we have n't seen Trevor , and even Barry at the Pentam did n't tell me , he thought I knew |
| 24 | D'Arcy savoured his brandy and studied Victor for a moment , before deciding exactly how much to tell the Frenchman . |
| 25 | What could she give God for a sacrifice ? |
| 26 | If a church finds itself divided but comes together in spite of this to pray and fast and repent and seek God for a renewal of love , then unity and power can be restored from within and a breakthrough occur . |
| 27 | He studied Nuadu for a moment . |
| 28 | And tomorrow TI 's finance team it due to visit Cheltenham for a close inspection of the company it now owns . |
| 29 | One contributor , reckoning that ‘ his ’ missile had shot down a Sandinista helicopter , pestered Channell for a piece of the wreckage as a souvenir . |
| 30 | It so happened that on one of these Sundays my CO strolled by at the same time , and the AOC asked him why he had not seen Mahaddie for a pilot 's course . |