Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He asked Sarah for the photo and he was doing his usual stuff , you know , hand on heart . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | BHUTAN : AI visited Bhutan for the first time in January at the invitation of King Jigme Wangchuck . |
| 7 | 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 ] . |
| 8 | A year later Moore captained England for the first time , against Czechoslovakia . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Konstantinos Kosmopoulos retained Salonika for the ND with 50.9 per cent , beating the Pasok-Left Coalition candidate . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In November Nelson Mandela , deputy president of the African National Congress , visited Swaziland for the first time since his February release . |
| 14 | In mid-November a United States congressional delegation visited China for the first time since the massacre . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The Norwegian government donated some 2,000,000 kronor ( US$320,000 ) to the NCGUB , whose leader , Sein Win , visited Norway for the presentation of the Nobel Peace Prize to Aung San Suu Kyi . |
| 17 | A delegation from IT Division visited Japan for the annual DTI/MTI Talks held on 25th–26th March , which included an Expert Session on IT . |
| 18 | Now in January 1979 , as he fled Teheran for the second time in his life , the Shah had intended to fly on to America after just a few day in Egypt . |
| 19 | The memory of Mme Schlesinger , and her presence too , pursued Flaubert for the rest of his life . |
| 20 | ‘ When I beat Nick for the Barcelona Open it gave me a three-year exemption on the tour but it turned out to be a £90,000 exemption — that 's what it cost me to keep playing until I lost it in 1991 . ’ |
| 21 | In November a Vatican delegation visited Vietnam for the first time . |
| 22 | They returned in April , and in June visited Leeds for the last time . |
| 23 | When his friend Calder took an autumn break , Sole skippered Scotland for the first time , in a 38-17 win against Fiji at Murrayfield . |
| 24 | In her insistent way she asked Jane for the loan of a field in which to hold a charity fair . |
| 25 | Just then , a Zoggian policewoman arrived and asked Zanya for the key to their spaceship . |
| 26 | Lucente quit IBM for the number two post at Northern Telecom Ltd , where he resigned last month . |
| 27 | The remainder of the qualifiers played Stableford for the Rentokil Cup , and once again the winners were from Environmental Services , Richard Wooding from Pest Control , Mike Bayley from Medical Services and Sal Akram from Pest Control Newcastle . |
| 28 | The alarm clock woke Claudia for the second time and she sniffed appreciatively at the aroma penetrating her room . |
| 29 | However , Mitterrand denied on Jan. 20 that there was any geographical limitation on French commitment to the allied force and on Jan. 24 French aircraft bombed Iraq for the first time . |
| 30 | Middlesex dropped Ramprakash for the next championship match against Hampshire at Southampton but recalled him yesterday for their game against Sussex at Hove . |