Example sentences of "[verb] an [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Kingswinford , West Midlands , company has just won an order for 200 of its light and rapid open two-seaters in petrol form from Japan . |
| 2 | At least they have won an election for their seats on the council . |
| 3 | SINCE Barclays Bank has just won an award for being model employers despite laying off hundreds of workers , I suppose the Government deserves three gold medals for allowing Cammell Laird to close . |
| 4 | He had won an award for his Glaxo house magazine . |
| 5 | The first time a UK manufacturer has won an award for an ICN product . |
| 6 | A pub which has been run by the same family for more than a century has won an award for its traditional charm . |
| 7 | He did acknowledge that he had won an award for his rugby since the incident in September , 1991 . |
| 8 | ‘ I just told him I had n't won an Oscar for almost forty years and it was about time , that 's all . |
| 9 | By the age of twenty-nine he had appeared in two of the most successful films of all time and had won an Oscar for The Goodbye Girl . |
| 10 | WIMBLEDON 'S extravagant celebrations suggested Vinnie Jones had won an Oscar for best supporting tough guy in ‘ Soccer 's Hard Men ’ . |
| 11 | He helps Pancks , whose landlord he is , to establish Mr Dorrit 's claim to his inheritance , and while Clennam is imprisoned in the Marshalsea he keeps an eye on his affairs ; Anastasia , his unprepossessing , middle-aged daughter , who cherishes the recollection of once having won an action for breach of promise . |
| 12 | In 1952 , in an article entitled ‘ Discourse Analysis ’ , he analysed an advertisement for hair tonic — from which he coyly omitted the brand name — and set about searching for grammatical rules to explain why one sentence followed another . |
| 13 | Can I buy an overdrive for a Range Rover ( there 's so many discount offers in the mag ) or get a used one and make the linkage myself ? |
| 14 | UNO 's platform , announced early in September , included plans to expand the market economy , to extend social freedoms and guarantees including trade union freedoms , to revise the Constitution to provide for a strict separation of the state , the Army and the ruling party , to abolish compulsory military service , to reduce radically the size of the armed forces , to reorganize the police under civil authority and to grant an amnesty for political prisoners . |
| 15 | Norman Fowler , Secretary of State for Transport at the time , eventually agreed to grant an exemption for amateur-built vehicles . |
| 16 | And you know how willing the commons will be to grant an aid for a foreign queen ! |
| 17 | In case the Government ignores its request to donate the Park to the nation , the Bletchley Park Trust is tonight launching an appeal for £7 million to buy and develop it . |
| 18 | After setting out the facts , the judgment of the Court of Appeal , delivered by Lord Lane C.J. , first dealt with and dismissed an argument for the respondent based on chapter 29 of Magna Carta 1225 ( 9 Hen . |
| 19 | He retained an affection for Paris and a gratitude for the intellectual advantages that it had given him to which he later referred as pope . |
| 20 | On the other hand where a family has a number of teenage children who could be expected to be in charge of their own belongings then we should consider applying the policy wording and deducting an excess for each person . |
| 21 | Do n't need an attorney for that . ’ |
| 22 | It may be that the amp sounds okay but do they really need an LED for goodness sake ? |
| 23 | Although a man did n't need an explanation for that kind of attraction . |
| 24 | So er when schemes by the good service of actuaries can be re-written in such extreme terms I begin to worry about it and I think it needs an input for more than one direction on the actuarial fund in our case the trustees saw fit not to use actuaries to get away |
| 25 | Michael had tried to book Guildford , but they would only offer us one week as they felt we could n't guarantee an audience for longer . |
| 26 | This is seen as representing an opportunity for the club to achieve its objectives and must be seriously considered . |
| 27 | Indeed , combined with the elevated notions discussed above , has been an intellectual imperialism for the ‘ primitiveness ’ perceived in such peoples becoming an excuse for colonialism and extermination . |
| 28 | But Friends of the Earth hit back : ‘ Ofwat is in danger of becoming an apologist for Government inaction and water company profits . |
| 29 | How did the United Nations get hijacked into becoming an institution for war- making ? |
| 30 | The one thing that would have persuaded him to accept an invitation for the Stuttgart Ballet to go to South Africa would have been if he could show a really good black dancer working alongside the whites . |