Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [noun prp] [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patrick Molloy , 11 , added : ‘ I can tell you what my brother David chose for his dinner . |
| 2 | Faldo sank a worthy putt for a birdie , but Norman 's victory still looked a formality until his tiny effort , similar to that which Scott Hoch missed for Faldo to win the 1989 Masters , hit the hole and ran past . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll go , ’ she said , and ran to the surgery to collect the bag , and to pick up the roll of towelling and a pair of scissors which Dr Neil kept for emergencies . |
| 4 | The Reluctant Spy will tell the story of the trial , and will also recall the 20 years during which Mr Henderson worked for MI6 . |
| 5 | The moral problems which Violet Needham set for her heroes and heroines , the points of honour appropriate to their royal or aristocratic heritage , belonged to an earlier society than that of her eventual readers , but the exhilaration of adventure was there to help them . |
| 6 | Jill George is showing one large drawing and twenty other charcoal sheets by Hughie O'Donoghue ( 12 May-11 June ) who was included in ‘ Heaven and Hell ’ which Alistair Hicks curated for Purdy Hicks in 1992 . |
| 7 | There could be no more appropriate item with which to initiate such a project than the magnificent 12-part Motet In Memoriam Robert Carver which Ronald Stevenson composed for them in 1987–88 : a work which deliberately spans the centuries to invoke the spirit of Carver in new , late 20th-Century context . |
| 8 | The two men were in the small back parlour which George Wood kept for discreet purposes , ‘ and although it is … ’ |
| 9 | Two imposing items which arrived in Swanage were the prominent Wellington ‘ lock ’ tower at Peveril and the 17th century facade from the Mercers ' Hall in Cheapside which George Burt used for his new Town Hall . |
| 10 | Stocky , powerful wing whose father Vernon played for the Springbok soccer team . |
| 11 | One thinks of Matt Windows , whose father Tony played for Gloucestershire in the 1960s , and James Averis , an 18-year-old allrounder signed on a summer contract . |
| 12 | An internal inquiry has been carried out by Ealing social services , in whose area Christopher lived for most of the last weeks of his life , but no serious professional errors were found . |
| 13 | After his election Gallacher applied for the Labour Party whip which , as he was not a Party member and had defeated someone who was , could " not be granted . |
| 14 | This accommodation , named " Hudson Flats " , bears witness not only to the enthusiasm with which the late Jimmy Hudson and his wife Mary worked for the provision of annual " Old Folks ' Holidays " , but also to the sum of £72,000 which they raised themselves towards the purchase of this property . |
| 15 | In his pensione Sandison slept for two hours in the afternoon . |
| 16 | With this fearsome military instrument at his disposal Henry waited for the invasion . |
| 17 | During the course of his speech Roh called for a breaking of " the shackles of the past " and for the development of a closer relationship between Japan and South Korea which would serve as a fulcrum from which " to promote peace and prosperity in north-east Asia " . |
| 18 | During his visit Dumas called for an acceleration in the reform programme already under way in Laos . |
| 19 | The bewildered children of his son Robert learnt for the first time how their apparently benevolent grandfather really viewed their father . |
| 20 | Glen and his son Andrew sailed for Persia by way of Constantinople in 1847 . |
| 21 | Although unprepared for the success of his party Brazauskas called for a " government of national agreement " , adding ; " We will talk to other parties and do not want to usurp power . " |
| 22 | This , in similar vein , was what David Whitaker wanted for the Doctor . |
| 23 | ‘ Groups like yours are a bit outside my experience , ’ he confided , ‘ and I need to understand a bit about what Miss Morgan did for a living . |
| 24 | ‘ Remember what Alan Taylor did for us at West Ham in 1975 ? |
| 25 | Some writer should do for them what Bertrand Russell did for his grandfather and others in that exquisite volume Portraits from Memory . |
| 26 | O K so look let me just go through these notices er for today 's tutorial period , one or two changes erm again a thought for the week from the chaplain to begin with , during the approaching season of Lent , the best thing we can do is to centre our thoughts on what Jesus Christ did for us through his passion , death and resurrection . |
| 27 | The Foreign Office and the Hong Kong government tried to camouflage their retreat with windy evasion , talking piously of the need to create ‘ convergence ’ between what Hong Kong wanted for its future , and what China was prepared to permit . |
| 28 | A new Herriot ( in this case Every Living Thing , published by Michael Joseph ) does not need to be torn to pieces on the book page of the Times , but there was Robert Crampton trying to make a reputation for himself : ‘ James Herriot did for the Yorkshire Dales in the seventies what Peter Mayle did for the hills of Provence in the eighties . |
| 29 | A ‘ Life Line ’ feature , grandfather of our ‘ Material World ’ section , was introduced in which , should the fancy take you , you could find out what Freddie Garrity 's favourite food was or what Gerry Marsden wanted for Christmas . |
| 30 | Kruger kept making little inspirational speeches about what Turhan Bey held for us all in the future . |