Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dozens of motorcyclists teamed up to ride from Teesside International Airport to Darlington Memorial Hospital , taking with them Easter gifts for the young patients . |
| 2 | I hoped it was just a passing phase , sparked off by her catching me fooling around in the Plaster Room , and thanked my guardian angel for the way Old Red had just covered up for me . |
| 3 | , a delightful person , was my guardian angel for the first ten days of the tour , and was also good enough to rearrange my return journey from Hyderabad , so that I could get back in London in time for an appointment on 29 November . |
| 4 | My Mum lives for the films . |
| 5 | In my opinion counsel for the receiver is well-founded in his contention that condition 8.1 must be construed as an attempt to create a hypothec of a type not recognised by law . |
| 6 | ‘ Expanding Emporio is the most important aspect of my business plan for the next five years , ’ says the maestro , confidently plotting his way to a bright future as less resilient designers wring their hands or close shop . |
| 7 | It was a coincidence that the previous weekend I had been sorting through an old trunk of mine full of memorabilia at my parents ' home , and came across my membership certificate for the Tailwaggers Club , along with Tailwagger medallion . |
| 8 | At midnight , when , as the carol says , the animals were on their knees , I crept to the cot and put my pillowcase offering for the little fatherless one . |
| 9 | In the course of my newspaper work for the Times-Herald I became Provincial Editor , a title which brought no increase in salary . |
| 10 | My friend plays for the United and her husband polishes up her boots on a Saturday night ! |
| 11 | He taught me the lesson of supply and demand for , although quite willing to swap , he demanded twelve of my Anstie spares for the one card . |
| 12 | ‘ Honestly God , if you had seen my performance reports for the last forty years you would not be offering me this position . ’ |
| 13 | I 'm lucky enough to have a diary full of opera engagements , and my recording schedule for the next couple of years is particularly exciting : Così with Mehta [ See our interview in the next issue ! — Ed. ] , a disc of Mozart arias , and a Magic Flute ( all for Sony ) , a Don Carlos with Levine , a Verdi Requiem , all the Schubert Masses , a Verdi recital , some Russian bass/baritone duets , and a recital of Mussorgsky and Rachmaninov songs with Alexis Weissenberg ! ’ |
| 14 | Used my travel alarm for the first time having been appointed ‘ waker up ’ for breakfast — not a success as I had forgotten to resent for French time ( one hour ahead ) — many comments about my parentage . |
| 15 | well I thought well if it checks me another six months at least when they say have you got any experience , but as I say I 'm still in touch with Mencap and I 'm still in touch with mine and I 've also er put in for , what they call them mobility insistence for the Princess Marina which again an education and you just go in and be , be a friend to somebody and you take them out for an hour , er a couple of hours , you , and you 're paid five pounds eighty for a two hour session |
| 16 | They were both so obsessed with the place , its gossip and rumours and intrigues , that they wanted to spend every possible moment together there , comparing notes , exchanging opinions : who was in , who out , what X said about Y's review of P's book about Q. Well , she was sick and tired of the place , tired of its beautiful architecture housing vanity and paranoia , glad to exchange its hothouse atmosphere for the real if smoky air of Rummidge . |
| 17 | The death seems to have had a distressing effect on Christabel , who returned eventually to her family , living with her sister Sophie for the rest of her quiet and uneventful life . |
| 18 | In a one-off experiment , the Coca-Cola Cup finalists will have their names above their shirt numbers for the match at Wembley on 18 April . |
| 19 | She began to wash the lettuce , while Bob made the dressing , hunting luxuriously through her spice cupboard for the oil and vinegar . |
| 20 | 9.1 The Publisher may present copies of the Work to the Libraries entitled to the Privilege and shall be entitled at its discretion to present copies of every edition of the Work to the Delegates of the Oxford University Press and their Secretary and the Chancellor of the University editors of periodicals teachers and other persons through whom in its judgement publicity for the Work will be gained and shall retain the copies needed as samples by their showrooms and travellers throughout the world and all such presentation copies shall not be taken into account as copies sold . |
| 21 | 9.1 The Publisher may present copies of the Work to the Libraries entitled to the Privilege and shall be entitled at its discretion to present copies of every edition of the Work to the Delegates of the Oxford University Press and their Secretary and the Chancellor of the University editors of periodicals teachers and other persons through whom in its judgement publicity for the Work will be gained and shall retain the copies needed as samples by their showrooms and travellers throughout the world and all such presentation copies shall not be taken into account as copies sold . |
| 22 | Also , as the claim of executive privilege involved constitutional issues , Greene ordered Poindexter 's lawyers to disclose their defence strategy for the forthcoming trial to Reagan and the Justice Department so that they could decide whether to proceed with their objections . |
| 23 | With their debut album for the superb independent label Dorado , D*Note are going to go clear . |
| 24 | The ESRC has adopted the context , adjustment and management of change as its research priority for the remainder of this decade . |
| 25 | Mind you , once again , England wore their tracksuit tops for the anthem at Murrayfield . |
| 26 | We had heard from Werner Meyer that the Toraja custom of burying their dead in high vaults began only a few hundred years ago when Bugis raiding parties from the lowlands began pillaging their burial sites for the booty interred with the corpses , and as recently as 1964 an army general stationed on the island had led his army on similar raids . |
| 27 | In the UK , ICL plc has previewed its Search Accelerator for the Informix relational database running on Unix SVR4 . |
| 28 | Their maturity-depth curve for the Carboniferous of northern Germany , including the Ruhr , is described from a similar geothermal regime to the Southern North Sea . |
| 29 | The Article 7 argument would have allowed Germany to continue with its opt-out provision for the benefit of employees , but the argument does not imply that countries , such as the UK , which in their national legislation make the transfer compulsory upon both employee and employer , are acting inconsistently with Community law . |
| 30 | The Hong Kong Government emphasises that its deportation policy for the Vietnamese is no different from its policy of sending illegal Chinese immigrants back across the border . |