Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [to-vb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had reached the age when friends and companions were beginning to die around him , and in the spring of this year he composed memorial addresses for two of them : William Collin Brooks , who ten years before had encouraged Valerie Fletcher to apply for the post of Eliot 's secretary , and Father Eric Cheetham , who had " taken in " Eliot after the separation from Vivien . |
| 2 | Northumberland had their outside-half Ian Chandler to thank for the late drop goal that led to a 13–11 victory over Alberta on a day when a freak Arctic airflow brought snow and near freezing temperatures to Calgary . |
| 3 | SEOUL ( AFP ) — Pope John Paul II urged South Korea to work for the reunification of the Korean Peninsula peacefully and told the President , Roh Tae Woo , that the division symbolised suffering . |
| 4 | The TAC has short-listed Horner Collis & Kirvan and Bainsfair Sharkey Trott to bid for the account . |
| 5 | I 've got an obit of poor old Eddy Moulton to do for the Journalist . |
| 6 | Three ministers have also been forced out over the past two weeks , an unprecedented exodus which prompted Mr Amato to call for the vote . |
| 7 | particular animal and then ask Mr Williamson to or Mr Potter to conclude for the county . |
| 8 | Mitchel McLaughlin revealed that the party will be nominating former blanket-protest prisoner Cathal Crumley to run for the party in the October poll . |
| 9 | And fans of the Paul McCartney sound-a-like have his mum Mrs Cooper to thank for the one-off show . |
| 10 | The Foreign Affairs Ministers met on Nov. 24 and 25 in Abu Dhabi to prepare for the planned summit , but reports said that the session was overshadowed by the absence of Qatar , marking its continuing displeasure with Saudi Arabia following a border incident in October [ see p. 39165 ] . |
| 11 | In fact the rot set in 15 years ago when Dr Coggan asked for a meeting with Jim Callaghan to lobby for the Church to be exempted from a two per cent surcharge on employers ' National Insurance contributions . |
| 12 | When God instructs his people Israel to care for the poor , the appeal is invariably on the basis of what he has done for them . |
| 13 | In 1487 King John of Portugal sent Pedro da Covilham to search for the kingdom of Prester John . |
| 14 | You do n't have to be a Mike Gatting to play for the Wimpey cricket team . |
| 15 | In the event of my dying before remarriage , I DEVISE and BEQUEATH all of my real and personal estate whatsoever and wheresoever not already disposed of as to my freeholds in fee simple and as to my personal estate absolutely to the issue of my union with JACQUELINE MYRTLE MITCHELL , the property to be held in trust for the said issue , the trust allowing monthly sum of not less than FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS to the said JACQUELINE MYRTLE MITCHELL to pay for the upbringing of the said issue , this arrangement to cease on his or her attaining the age of twenty-one years , whereupon a quarter of the remaining estate — whether in freehold property , stocks , shares or chattels shall be granted in perpetuity to the said JACQUELINE MYRTLE MITCHELL , and the remainder to be granted to the said issue . |
| 16 | There was old Ma Feeney to call for the laying out , the coffin maker to see , the burial to arrange . |
| 17 | At the end of it , Robert Kennedy was dead and McCarthy was defeated in the nervousness that engulfed American politics , leaving Hubert Humphrey to battle for the White House with Richard Nixon . |
| 18 | Alberto Tomba , after a fall in the Valloire super giant slalom , ducked Val d'Isere to prepare for the home snow of Sestriere , one of the toughest slalom slopes in the world . |
| 19 | The Niue Assembly comprises 20 members ( 14 village representatives and six elected on a common roll ) and has legislative authority , but it can also request New Zealand to legislate for the island . |
| 20 | He introduced Graeme Knox and Jim Mitchell to perform for the Company . |
| 21 | ‘ I may even have to sell the house in Ladbroke Grove to pay for the losses . ’ |
| 22 | The previous year , when my lifestyle was reversed and I was living with my Mom mid-week , I 'd bring my pal Sally to stay for the week-end at Pop 's . |