Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , in Much Ado , Claudio waits until Benedick , the mocker of love , has gone before he moves up to verse to reveal to Don Pedro his love for Hero ( I.i.290ff . ) . |
| 2 | PRETTY Poppy Potter will be the envy of her friends tonight when she officially lights the massive public bonfire in Corwen her prize for winning a firework night painting competition run by the town 's firemen . |
| 3 | Barbara Coleman was saying something about the former beauty of the garden and its decline , but wondering aloud whether it was fair to say decline because what was happening was that the garden was returning to nature , and further wondering whether it was really and truly nature because some of the plants were not native to the region and did not entirely belong there , and then wondering whether that was not a strange remark to come from one who had made Provence her home for so long that she felt quite a part of the landscape . |
| 4 | It saw the defeat of Adlai Stevenson whose demand for a suspension of tests brought an off of immediate agreement from Prime Minister Bulganin … to which Eisenhower responded by accusing the Russians of ‘ internal interference ’ in his re-election campaign . |
| 5 | He told the Commons his programme for the future of the service included creating ‘ more powerful and business-like ’ police authorities ; giving chief constables greater freedom in deciding how to spend their money ; and setting national objectives and performance standards . |
| 6 | He told the Commons his programme for the future of the service included creating ‘ more powerful and business-like ’ police authorities ; giving chief constables greater freedom in deciding how to spend their money ; and setting national objectives and performance standards . |
| 7 | By early 1989 the Prime Minister was at odds with several colleagues , not only Nigel Lawson with whom she quarrelled incessantly , but also with Sir Geoffrey Howe whose sympathy for European monetary union and generally benign approach to foreign affairs came increasingly to jar with her . |
| 8 | The same might be said of Neville Brody whose typography for The Face owes more to computer-operated typesetting than to calligraphy . |
| 9 | But the BIS can also be seen as the project of a dissident Quakerism which led Elizabeth Pease Nichol to leave the Friends on her marriage ; the Peases found collaborators in the Dubliner Richard Webb whose contempt for the ‘ form and conventionalisms ’ of British reformers has already been indicated and his Unitarian associates such as James Haughton . |
| 10 | Thanks to the committee members for all their help over the last year and particularly to Graham Espin for many years of enthusiastic effort with the committee , to Ross Hamilton our treasurer for all his hard work , to Mrs Sheila Peterson for her abilities as vice chairman and particularly her talent with the children at our functions , to Miss Netta Gibling who , as ever , provides continuity and expertise as secretary . |
| 11 | He determined beforehand that he would not mention to Fisher his longing for time to read books . |
| 12 | Praise be to God our Father for this holy child . |
| 13 | Paul Henderson , the head of Matrix-Churchill whose trial for supplying arms to Iraq was abandoned amid controversy last autumn , is writing a memoir which Bloomsbury will publish in October . |
| 14 | Thus when the prince outlined to Anne his plan for a secret rendezvous with Joan , she had been more than a little piqued . |
| 15 | WHEN GABRIEL emerged , Garvey was just paying the Mason his fee for being ‘ cured ’ miraculously . |
| 16 | The Law Society , the body that governs 60,000 solicitors in England and Wales , submitted last April its application for more rights of audience to the committee . |
| 17 | The cultural practice of imitation which Herbert so confidently exploits ( note how the Jordan poem above skilfully employs Sidney 's first sonnet in Astrophil and Stella was rendered very difficult for a poet such as An Collins whose scope for enjoying the educated attainments open to a Renaissance gentleman was negligible . |
| 18 | But you forgive Voltaire his enthusiasm for enlightened monarchy : why not forgive Flaubert , a century later , his enthusiasm for enlightened oligarchy ? |