Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [noun prp] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I met Helmut for lunch at Fouquet 's . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ I got Peter for £1 million and when you look at the lack of quality around today I would not argue when people say I got a bargain . |
| 3 | So I swapped Nigel for Oliver , which was always my second name . |
| 4 | I sent Adam for Dr Spilsby straight , while the maids and I put you to bed in here . |
| 5 | As I had requested , I had Pauline for massage ; I always find she gives me the best massage I have anywhere in the world . |
| 6 | I left Valladolid for Salamanca the next day . |
| 7 | And then she goes , it do n't come off now , I wrote Emma for Billy and Russell , and Richard . |
| 8 | Whatever the ins and outs , it was the abandonment of that third ad hoc meeting which prepared Heseltine for take-off . |
| 9 | In terms of economic rationality , most experts now agree that Mendès-France was right and that the inflation which plagued France for years after 1945 might have been limited , if not avoided , by timely action by de Gaulle . |
| 10 | Villa , who sold Platt for £5.5m , are entitled to half of any profit Bari received when they sold Platt on to Juventus in the summer . |
| 11 | BONG : Then foreign correspondent Brent Sadler , 41 , who quit ITN for CNN at Christmas , split with his second wife . |
| 12 | IMF officials who visited Moscow for talks on Aug. 24-26 said , however , that Russian authorities , including Gerashchenko , were still in general agreement on the plans . |
| 13 | The same problem of faith that sees God as too small shows up in the attitudes of those who approached Jesus for help . |
| 14 | The first signs of a problem surrounding the ‘ enfant terrible ’ , who joined Leeds for £900,000 from Nimes earlier this year after a career marred by disciplinary problems , arose early last month . |
| 15 | Ironside , who joined Boro for £40,000 in the close season , has agreed to return on a month 's loan . |
| 16 | Clive Exon who adapted Poirot for television and also scripted the current play believes Christie 's work will survive for many years to come . |
| 17 | It is also a major surprise that defending champions Leeds , who signed Cantona for £900,000 from Nimes earlier this year , allowed him to go . |
| 18 | He was among those barons who petitioned Edward for reform in March 1310 , and in 1312 he was ordered to surrender Bristol Castle , probably the sign of a more open opposition . |
| 19 | Still waiting for his first goal since his £500,000 summer move from Rangers , Rideout has been unfavourably compared with the Scots striker who left Goodison for Oldham last year . |
| 20 | The £3.5 million offer tabled by Rovers tops , by £200,000 , the record fee they paid Southampton for England striker Alan Shearer last summer , but Clark is adamant : ‘ It is still not enough and nobody has come remotely near what we want for Roy . ’ |
| 21 | They begged Rytasha for reimbursement , but none was forthcoming , and for the want of a few hundred pounds the village lost its crop for the year . |
| 22 | They blamed Bucaram for Congress 's controversial impeachment on Oct. 2 of Juan Neira , the Public Works and Conmmunications Minister , who was replaced on Oct. 5 by Raúl Carrasco Zamora , and earlier of an agriculture minister Mario Jalil . |
| 23 | Along with a man called Renwick Dennison , they trailed Dale for days , but the opportunity to kill him never arose , said Mr Langdale . |
| 24 | Management consultancy not only made him rich ( he sold Telesis for $1m and has just forked out $1.25m for a Washington house ) ; it also convinced him that America 's ludicrously wasteful health-care system was undermining the nation 's competitiveness abroad . |
| 25 | Minton , with teasing flattery , referred to his new friend , six years his junior , as his ‘ property consultant ’ , for he asked Goff for advice when he began thinking and talking about moving . |
| 26 | I would class him as one of the promising youngsters ( he is only about 21 and on the verge of the Norway team ) Remember Standli is Wilko 's ‘ most exciting ’ signing since he got Hirst for Sheff Wed . |
| 27 | On May 25 he visited Kiev for talks with his Ukrainian counterpart , Vitold Fokin . |
| 28 | Informix is the first with a DRDA product , it introduced Informix-Gateway for DRDA last month ( UX No 428 ) . |
| 29 | He criticized Bevin for lack of imagination — surely an inverted compliment given its implication of positive contributions in the past . |
| 30 | In the early 1730s , he left Scotland for London to become the pupil of Hans Hysing , a Swedish portrait painter . |