Example sentences of "[noun prp] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Round was signed from St Helens for a club record of £65,000 in the summer of 1987 but he damaged a knee in his only game this season — at Carlisle in October — and needed a cartilage operation . |
| 2 | ‘ I talked to a couple from Stirling for a while — Mr and Mrs Maclean . |
| 3 | Damon was a nineteen-year-old student from California who was staying with Bodo and Liese for a month . |
| 4 | At first the thought of going back to work made me shudder because I could n't stand the thought of leaving Danielle for an hour let alone a whole day , but once my husband Dave and I had left Danielle with a babysitter a couple of times , I realised that she would still be there when I came back and that she would be fine . |
| 5 | BRIAN ANDREW , a controversial figure in the parochial world of Cornish rugby , will at last play in a county championship final tomorrow , having twice lost out to Graham Dawe for a place in the Twickenham spotlight . |
| 6 | Flavia Sherman smiled sympathetically at Chuck for a moment then turned to her husband with an ill-concealed sigh of exasperation . |
| 7 | ME AND MY SHADOW : Drebin collars Hank Marvin for a duet |
| 8 | Then he was dropped five games later and it became obvious to all that the goalkeeping hero of the finest days the club had ever known could not be long in going — and on 16 October 1973 he moved over to Orient for a £30,000 fee . |
| 9 | Accusations of corruption had been levelled against Ibrahim for a number of years , and in May President Gayoom yielded to demands that the State Trading Organization ( STO ) , which was under Ibrahim 's control , be investigated for evidence of corruption . |
| 10 | Already I had put in a formal application to Gladstone Murray for a producer 's post with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , and Ernie Bushnell suggested I submit a programme script for consideration . |
| 11 | Claudia could see that locking up a Masai for a crime he did not understand was cruel and inhuman . |
| 12 | Mr R. Arnold for an artifact ; |
| 13 | It has been under test in Germany for a year where it has been used to control a Mercedes test vehicle on the autobahn . |
| 14 | He was received with honour by Archbishop Hermann of Cologne and Emperor Henry III , remained in Germany for a year , and was presented , among other gifts , with a psalter and sacramentary sent there by Canute [ q.v . ] . |
| 15 | I have lived in Germany for a year now , all the time . |
| 16 | So far he and his foreign minister , Mr Hans-Dietrich Genscher , have stuck nobly to the view that Germany should remain a member of NATO , with some ( no doubt far fewer ) NATO troops staying on in what is now West Germany and with enough Soviet troops staying on in eastern Germany for a while to make the Russians feel better about it . |
| 17 | Yeah possibly but I do n't think they , do , they do n't , I mean they , they lived in Germany for a while have n't they , so , I do n't think , oh no , did n't they go to Cyprus one year Pete and Colin or am I dreaming ? |
| 18 | Mr Rakebrand ( 33 ) an agriculture engineer from Adendorf , Germany , was shot soon after he and his wife arrived from Germany for a holiday . |
| 19 | ‘ Britain 's influence is much weaker and countries are looking to Germany for a lead , ’ he said . |
| 20 | But we now realize the extent to which these scientists looked to France and later to Germany for a lead . |
| 21 | He missed the presentations to meet his brother flying from Germany for a family reunion . |
| 22 | Let's take Germany for a start . |
| 23 | A second Expeditionary Force was despatched across the Channel to France , but it WAS forced to return to Britain almost immediately because the French government asked Germany for an armistice , on 17th . |
| 24 | Once that is completed the Captain is joined by Corporal L for a planning conference on a forthcoming job of clearing some derelict houses of a suspect IED . |
| 25 | ‘ My wife and I have lived in Fenny Drayton for a number of years , it is a small village on the Leics/Warks border about half a mile from the main A5 trunk road . |
| 26 | At the other end of the scale is the much vaunted desktop publishing system which requires high resolution graphics ; either Extended Graphics or Hercules for a PC system , special software such as Aldus PageMaker or Harvard Publisher , and an intelligent page printer . |
| 27 | Flying Scot Colin McRae is third , but Malcolm Wilson showed his highly-rated compatriot that he is not the only Briton gunning for the Pounds 100,000 jackpot being offered by sponsors Lombard for a home winner . |
| 28 | Cricket and Empire started life as film research commissioned by David Puttnam for a film on Bodyline that was never made — losing out to the unintentionally funny Australian TV mini-series many readers will remember from the early 1980s : ‘ David wanted me to find the ‘ smoking gun ’ . |
| 29 | He supports Chelsea for a start . |
| 30 | Steve succeeded John Sewell as Palace 's captain , but in September 1971 he moved over to Chelsea for a fee quoted as £170,000 , as Bert Head sought funds to reshape his squad for 1st Division survival . |