Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [noun prp] for the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Loretta decided she would have to abandon her attempt to see Veronica for the rest of the day .
3 Lucente quit IBM for the number two post at Northern Telecom Ltd , where he resigned last month .
4 In my room I fell to my knees to thank God for the sign he had sent me , and waited eagerly for daylight .
5 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 .
6 When his friend Calder took an autumn break , Sole skippered Scotland for the first time , in a 38-17 win against Fiji at Murrayfield .
7 Marie asked Gazzer for the second time that day .
8 Dot asked Gloria for the powder compact she kept in her bag .
9 In mid-November a United States congressional delegation visited China for the first time since the massacre .
10 In November a Vatican delegation visited Vietnam for the first time .
11 It showed a replay of Tammuz meeting Ari for the first time in the canteen .
12 Having been frustrated in her 1988 cruise to Scandinavia , Islander headed north-east once more last summer and this time succeeded in passing through the Limfjord , sailing down the Kattegat and up into the Baltic as far as Stockholm before retracing her steps to visit Copenhagen for the second time on this voyage .
13 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 .
14 She swung round , her swollen eyes searching Duncan for the truth .
15 An Australian schoolteacher in Hawaii wanting to write a story on the States invading Panama for The Times in London .
16 EDUCATION minister Michael Fallon last night revealed the five major issues at the centre of his bid to retain Darlington for the Tories .
17 On the morrow of Marshal Ogarkov 's removal as Chief of the General Staff , Western press comment included speculation that his policy stance had come to obstruct the reassessment of arms control and East-West policy sought by the leadership ; according to one respected newspaper , senior Western military attachés in Moscow were tipped by Soviet army officers that the Kremlin blamed Ogarkov for the disasters of the SS-20 deployment and the shooting down of the Korean airliner off Sakhalin Island .
18 Just when their creditors were on the point of issuing writs the Tecks left England for the continent , insolvent and heavily in debt .
19 In Whit Week 1850 over 200,000 day-trippers left Manchester for the countryside and the sea .
20 Of those universities who also support Ph D research in Scottish geology , Edinburgh 's students and staff have consulted 100 of the theses in data set C. For the major universities researching in the field , the numbers of thesis borrowers from particular universities are in proportion ( ratio nearly 1:1 ) to the numbers of Ph D theses produced in these universities .
21 I next plan to visit Cyprus for the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in 1993 .
22 But by now Winnie Ewing was in the throes of her by-election campaign to win Hamilton for the SNP , and aware of how fervently I agreed with everything she was saying ( and wished a Liberal had been saying ) I felt it would be dishonest to hold back any longer .
23 Where did Karen meet Drew for the first time ?
24 Casimir left Dublin for the Balkans as a war correspondent and enlistment .
25 Two days later , on 26 July , the dowager and the queen left Linlithgow for the greater safety of Stirling , presumably an indication that , with the making of this bond , the relatively straightforward period of the first half of 1543 was over .
26 By this time the van was distinguished by a banner in the rear window proclaiming SCOTLAND FOR THE WORLD CUP ! ! and a Saltire , but sadly Scotland lost in the semi-final and FOR THE WORLD CUP was quietly removed !
27 That struggle shaped Germany for the subsequent two centuries and it also determined much of the shape of Europe prior to the First World War .
28 The first generation approach to interface design within the UGIX project has been to prototype using Hypercard for the Apple Macintosh , where the Hypercard application ( complete with in-built communications software ) acts as a client to a host processor ‘ running the GIS application software .
29 Piggott had replaced McHargue , then sitting out a suspension , on Commanche Run in the Gordon Stakes at Goodwood , which he won by a very wide margin ; and though the stable jockey was back on board for the colt 's victory in the March Stakes on the same course , his preparation race for the St Leger , Commanche Run 's owner Ivan Allan , claiming ‘ There 's only one St Leger and only one Lester , ’ insisted that his close friend Piggott replace McHargue for the Classic .
30 Harold wants Northumbria for the Godwin family , not an inflated Siward or a Scotia so weak that Norway could step in and settle there . ’
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