Example sentences of "[vb pp] for [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 His Pakistan team-mate , paceman Wasim Akram , re-signed for Lancashire in a five-year deal worth around £250,000 .
2 XXVIII PRESBYTERY OF ISLAY BOWMORE After the Disruption in 1843 , occasional services were arranged for Bowmore in connection with Killarrow .
3 Usually Beth accompanied her to town , but , seeing as the Hansom would be going right by the flower-shop , she had arranged for Cissie to be dropped off there .
4 The doctor came , and arranged for Esther to be re-admitted to the gynaecological ward of the hospital so that she could continue nursing the baby , if possible .
5 No equivalent figures are given for Cramlington because of the irrelevance of the information given for Cramlington before the late 1970s .
6 Travelling accommodation seems to have been very casual and limited for JTR on occasion , more like hostelling .
7 Were you frightened for Theseus at any stage ?
8 The initial PDS-3 offering uses the Mbus SparcSet chip set designed for Cypress by Santa Clara , California-based start up Nimbus Technologies Inc for Sparc builders , which will take HyperSparc when it is ready ( UX No 383 ) .
9 I 'm a hoarder when it comes to clothes — I still wear some of the clothes designed for Alexis in Dynasty .
10 When we ask how it was , after initial preaching , that people were won for Christ in Corinth , Ephesus , Rome , Thessalonica , Galatia , Colossae , Philippi and the other destinations of the New Testament epistles , clearly the answer is : through the church !
11 Nor , incidentally , will there be any point in my arguing that I have voted for Hazel on personal grounds and with no political intention : Hazel is a Nutty Party candidate and will if elected accept that Party 's whip .
12 Firstly he overlooked the fact that the European parliament had consistently voted for Brussels as a meeting place .
13 But even if the note was deleted ( and Ramsey deleted it in a later edition ) , Raven could not have voted for Ramsey with enthusiasm .
14 And Dons boss Joe Kinnear reckons the time has come for Fashanu to be reconsidered by England in time for next month 's World Cup qualifier against Norway at Wembley .
15 They had come for Russell for his attack on the man in the car .
16 The unacceptability of certain conversion methods is accentuated for Gandhi by his belief that all religions have elements of truth and error and that no particular religion can lay claim to a monopoly of the truth .
17 However , I thought that it was wrong , very , very wrong that he was picked for Stuttgart on the strength of those two races .
18 I knew that such contradictions could be resolved for Jean-Claude in his work , and I felt that he , like me , should not allow them to dominate life .
19 I have a call booked for Riga for three o'clock .
20 The USA was authorized both by international law and by UN sanctions to intercept shipping destined for Iraq in the wake of the Gulf war , but had no authority to divert shipments bound for Iran or Syria because Iran , North Korea and Syria were not signatories to the Missile Technology Control Regime .
21 Reports added that UK customs officials had ordered an investigation after seizing a consignment of computer-related equipment destined for Pakistan in late June .
22 There had been so much to see and she 'd ached for Fernando to be beside her to show her everything .
23 At present they are manufactured for Canon under licence by Sussex-based Audio Electronics , but eventually they may be made in the UK by Canon itself .
24 An intermediate — one of the stages in producing a pharmaceutical product — is being manufactured for Boots for a new heart drug called Manoplax .
25 She knew that with enough money , alot could be done for Katya in England .
26 They ought to have pocketed three points in the first half-hour but Tony Adams , a more threatening centre-forward on his forays than the current Alan Smith , missed the target with two headers and David Rocastle let Dave Beasant save a penalty , much as the stretch-version keeper had done for Wimbledon in the 1988 FA Cup final .
27 He 'd seen what Madge Grimsilk had done for Therese in Maritza , and had savagely braced himself to give no sign , no indication of anything when he saw her Luxembourg costumes .
28 ‘ Now , Creggan , you asked me what can be done for Slorne in these autumn weeks of change and frustration .
29 I won and was selected for Oxford against Cambridge .
30 The Middlesbrough water polo pair of Paul Floyd and Lee Cooke have been selected for England in the home countries junior ( 20 and under ) international tournament at Glasgow on March 6–7 .
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