Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [noun prp] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steve Stoutt , Grimsby 's defender , has joined Lincoln for £10,000 and plays today . |
| 2 | They have also been able to drive down costs faster than the locals and so create new export possibilities , even back to Japan ; a feat that has eluded Detroit for decades . |
| 3 | The high-street chain Comet had a tighter contract than most small dealers and has sued BSB for £10 million ; the manufacturer Philips has sued for over £50 million . |
| 4 | ‘ Audrey 's an absolute cow to her but , in fairness , Audrey has tolerated Ivy for years , whereas Ivy has never been slow to criticise her . |
| 5 | Ann Nalson has known Iain for years . |
| 6 | New York-based , Parallex Graphics Inc has introduced XVideo for Insoft Inc 's Communique software conferencing system : XVideo , a real-time full-motion colour system , which allows users to operate in workgroup conferencing situations . |
| 7 | So probably a total stock of a dozen or more White Clouds , a dozen Zebra Danios , five female and one male American Flags ( females have a dot on the dorsal fin ) , six Black Widows and Six Red Eyes , with perhaps six Rosy or Aurulius barbs ( though I have my doubts about the later having once come across three three-inch specimens that tried to eat Corydoras for breakfast ) and the pair of sluggard cats . |
| 8 | SUN 's SUNSOFT IS NOW EXPECTED TO GET SOLARIS FOR INTEL CHIPS OUT IN MAY |
| 9 | She 'd known Nick for years , meeting him when she 'd come to London to visit her cousin Mark Bristow , Sally 's son . |
| 10 | He wrote laconically that night to John Prior Estlin , leaving unstated the bewilderment he evidently felt as he prepared to exchange Somerset for Shropshire . |
| 11 | The nurse then came to prepare Julie for theatre . |
| 12 | During this period he contracted to serve Edward for life and from 1317 he was summoned to Parliament . |
| 13 | Heseltine urged to buy Mar Lodge for nation |
| 14 | The demonstration , using an IBM RS/6000 Model 560 — said to be the equivalent of a PowerPC system — was shown running WordPerfect for Macintosh ‘ faster than the fastest Quadra ’ , according to PowerOpen 's new president , Domenic LaCava . |
| 15 | The demonstration , using an IBM RS/6000 Model 560 — said to be the equivalent of a PowerPC system — was shown running WordPerfect for Macintosh ‘ faster than the fastest Quadra ’ , according to PowerOpen 's new president , Domenic LaCava . |
| 16 | Laura began to pump Maggie for details . |
| 17 | Frain should have joined Sunderland for £350,000 but the move collapsed when Birmingham chairman Samesh Kumar demanded a clause be inserted in the deal that would give Birmingham 25 per cent of any sell-on fee . |
| 18 | Gavin Peacock turned down a move to Ayresome Park to stay on Tyneside and Keegan , having pipped Lawrence for Charlton winger Robert Lee , is close to landing Hignett — who has also attracted West Ham and Manchester City . |
| 19 | They will have to buy NetWare for NFS , which costs $5,000 for 100 users . |
| 20 | They 'll have to buy NetWare for NFS , which costs $5,000 for 100 users . |
| 21 | You 'd have sold Christ for dollars , ’ and turned his back on the German . |
| 22 | Two members of this summer 's Lions squad , Mike Griffiths and Mike Hall , decided to leave Bridgend for Cardiff last week , while the Wales hooker Ian Watkins joined them from Ebbw Vale in August to be followed by Newport 's Wales B wing Damien Griffiths and the Abertillery lock Stuart Nunnerley . |
| 23 | I personally would n't regard having to contact Germany for spares as the end of the world , and have always found Warwick to be extremely helpful in such circumstances . |
| 24 | UNDER 12s : Junior may well have asked Santa for Madonna 's Erotica ( WEA ) . |
| 25 | She 'd have asked David for help . |
| 26 | But she seemed to accept the Glaswegian accent and his story of having left Scotland for London in his teens . |
| 27 | In 1685 he planned to raise London for James Scott , Duke of Monmouth [ q.v. ] , during the Monmouth rebellion . |
| 28 | Frustrated dynastically as well as sexually , Ecgfrith is likely to have blamed Wilfrid for Æthelthryth 's contumacy . |
| 29 | But they were still respectful to the Emperor ; as fellow-Muslims they were part of the group that had dominated India for centuries , and it is unlikely that he was nearly as worried by their attitude as he was by the threat of Persian invasions like the one that led to Delhi being captured and plundered in 1739 , or by the rebellious Marathas of western India , Hindu in religion and devoted to cavalry raids to plunder their neighbours . |
| 30 | According to the defendants ' version of events , a women had approached Khmara for help , claiming that a man had attacked her ; Khmara and his companions then tried to make a citizen 's arrest on the man , unaware that he was a KGB officer . |