Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [noun prp] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Howe , who has treated Tony for the past four years , said : ‘ It has been discussed endlessly in the newspapers and I think it is time to let it be . ’ |
| 2 | It then bores on in this vein until our hero — Bjorn Borg , unmistakably — has won Weembledon for the fifth time consecutively . |
| 3 | The Tour has rested at Bordeaux many times , but this is the first time that the caravan has used Nogent-sur-Oise for the beginning of a day 's racing . |
| 4 | But she and the children are expected to join Andrew for the Royal Family 's annual get-together at Balmoral in Scotland today . |
| 5 | This demonstrated expertise in dealing with nationalists seemed to mark Mountbatten for the job , and when Attlee offered it to him he was sufficiently aware of how much he , and no other , was wanted to attach extraordinary conditions to his acceptance . |
| 6 | Suddenly they seemed to notice Brenda for the first time . |
| 7 | The iconoclasm was soon obvious when the reviewer told us , ‘ In seeking to blame Churchill for the end of British Great Power status , the author takes the logic of his 1989 classic , Chamberlain and the Lost Peace , to its intellectual conclusions . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ We are going to rival Sunderland for the right to stage the European Championships , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Before she swallowed the last of the drink she had promised to ask Wickham for the facts . |
| 10 | It is only now , almost five years after the fact , that the US press corps and America 's allies are beginning to see Gramm-Rudman-Hollings for the hoax that it is . |
| 11 | A press attaché at the Turkish embassy in Athens , Cetin Gorgu , was shot dead by two men as he began his drive to work on Oct. 7 — the day before Mitsotakis was scheduled to visit Istanbul for the funeral of the Archbishop Dimitrios I [ see this page ] . |
| 12 | Hareem prayer mats were spread next to the braziers and the women began petitioning God for the health of the boy . |
| 13 | On the basis of a large response the Bureaux Services Committee decided to substitute Mesher for the ‘ Yellow Book ’ which had previously been supplied on supplementary benefit and family income supplement . |
| 14 | But nothing could have prepared Gould for the transformation he witnessed on the journey back to Yarrundi from Maitland . |
| 15 | She left shortly , having surprised Dinah for the first time in her life ; and there were to be more surprises . |
| 16 | Northampton would have produced Coca-Cola for the whole of Southern England . |
| 17 | The initial function of the role is to pass on information that the Nazarenes will have to leave Nazareth for the Roman census . |
| 18 | I turn to face Crilly for the first real time . |
| 19 | Zambia , however , trying to compensate for whatever information they 'd picked up about hir , offered to entertain Nathan for the afternoon so that Roirbak could begin work with Ari . |
| 20 | Balliol also agreed to repay Edward for the help he had given in preparing the expedition by handing over to him land worth £2,000 a year to be selected from those parts of Scotland adjacent to England : in effect , the southern counties of Scotland were to be permanently ceded to England . |
| 21 | The Oak said , ‘ But we have lent our aid to the Royal Houses of the Beastline in times of extreme danger and we have also fought to regain Tara for the rightful heir . ’ |
| 22 | Fang Lizhi , an astrophysicist and China 's leading dissident , and his wife Li Shuxian , were allowed to leave China for the United Kingdom on June 25 . |
| 23 | Dai Qing , a dissident journalist detained by the authorities during the Nov. 15-17 visit to Beijing by US Secretary of State James Baker [ see p. 38575 ] , was allowed to leave China for the United State on Dec. 22 . |
| 24 | Now he is a minister of a church in Houston , where among the prayers he offers is one to be allowed to fight Tyson for the world title . |
| 25 | Now he is a minister of a church in Houston , where among the prayers he offers is one to be allowed to fight Tyson for the world title . |
| 26 | ‘ Please do thank Mary for the party . ’ |
| 27 | They had arranged March for the wedding . |
| 28 | M. Lévy gave me a third more for the second vase than he had given Jean-Claude for the first one . |
| 29 | The duke 's campaign of the previous season , which had won Berwick for the crown , may have whipped up enthusiasm for future conquests , but it had also been a lesson in the expense and difficulty of winning a small piece of land and the cost of keeping it thereafter . |
| 30 | The duke 's campaign of the previous season , which had won Berwick for the crown , may have whipped up enthusiasm for future conquests , but it had also been a lesson in the expense and difficulty of winning a small piece of land and the cost of keeping it thereafter . |