Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] for [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BONG : Then foreign correspondent Brent Sadler , 41 , who quit ITN for CNN at Christmas , split with his second wife . |
| 2 | Kennan met MacArthur for lunch on 1 March ; MacArthur stated that there had previously been only one successful military occupation in history and this had been Julius Caesar 's achievement in the subjugated barbarian provinces . |
| 3 | March : March 5 : United Kingdom Prime Minister John Major had talks in Moscow with Gorbachev on the Gulf conflict and the situation in the Baltic states ; March 7 : the RFSFR and Czechoslovakia signed a trade co-operation agreement ; March 12 : it was announced in Moscow that the withdrawal of the 50,000 troops stationed in Poland would begin in April , although the process would not be completed before 1994 ; March 14-16 : following a tour of the Middle East , US Secretary of State James Baker visited Moscow for talks on the situation in the Gulf and the presentation of a six-point US plan for peace and stability in the Middle East ; March 18-20 : UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd visited both Kiev and Moscow for discussions on British-Soviet relations ; March 22 : Soviet-Romanian treaty of friendship and co-operation initialled in Moscow ; March 28 : Bessmertnykh held further talks in Tokyo in connection with Gorbachev 's forthcoming visit . |
| 4 | May : May 8-11 ; in a tour in support of Middle East peace talks , Bessmertnykh visited Damascus , Tel Aviv ( the first trip to Israel by a Soviet Foreign Minister since the state was founded in 1948 ) , Amman and Cairo ; May 15-19 : the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party , Jiang Zemin , visited Moscow for talks on Sino-Soviet relations ; May 15 : Lev Voronin , a former deputy Chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers , was appointed ambassador to the EC ; May 27 : the last Soviet troops on active duty in Czechoslovakia were withdrawn ; May 28-31 : Primakov was in Washington for talks with US leaders and World Bank and IMF officials to discuss Western aid . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | April 1990 : Foreign Minister De Michelis visited Moscow for talks with his then Soviet counterpart Eduard Shevardnadze . |
| 7 | July : Andreotti visited Moscow for talks with Soviet President Gorbachev , mainly on bilateral trade , economic aid and German unification . |
| 8 | Japan 's Foreign Minister Michio Watanabe visited Moscow for talks with his Russian counterpart , Andrei Kozyrev , on May 3-5 , concerning the longstanding territorial dispute between the two countries over the four most southerly islands in the Kurile chain which had been occupied by the Soviet Union in August 1945 . |
| 9 | There is speculation that Grand Metropolitan , challenging McDonalds for supremacy of the fast food market , could pay up to £16m for the Allied branches . |
| 10 | Sangheli visited Bucharest for talks on Aug. 18-19 with Romanian Prime Minister Theodor Stolojan . |
| 11 | Following his visit to Saudi Arabia in February [ see p. 37266 ] , Saleh received visits in March from the Jordanian and Egyptian Prime Ministers , and on April 14 the North Yemeni Prime Minister , Abdel Aziz Abdel Ghani , visited Syria for talks with President Assad . |
| 12 | March 9 Baker visits Kuwait for talks with Crown Prince Shaikh Saad al Abdullah as Salim as Sabah . |
| 13 | Shortly after the exercises , in early May , the Prime Minister of Singapore , Goh Chok Tong , visited Brunei for talks with the Sultan . |
| 14 | March 13-14 Baker visits Syria for talks with President Hafez al-Assad . |
| 15 | April 11-12 Baker visits Syria for talks with President Assad ; Syria maintains its opposition to a " regional conference " and presses for a full international conference with a UN presence . |
| 16 | May 8-9 Bessmertnykh visits Syria for talks with Assad at the start of a regional tour aimed at promoting Middle East peace efforts . |
| 17 | In October Gaston Sigur , a former Assistant US Secretary of State , visited Pyongyang for talks with Ho Dam and Kim Yong Nam . |
| 18 | A further step was taken towards the normalization of Vietnamese-US relations on Oct. 17 when Vietnam 's Foreign Minister , Nguyen Co Thach , visited Washington for talks with Gen. John Vessey , President Bush 's special envoy dealing with US servicemen missing in action ( MIA ) in Indo-China . |
| 19 | During his visit to the USA in October Thach also visited Washington for talks with Gen. John Vessey , Bush 's special envoy on US servicemen missing in action ( MIA ) in Indo-China . |
| 20 | On Dec. 4 , a commission of the UN General Assembly adopted a US-sponsored resolution condemning Cuba for breaches of fundamental human rights , following on from a condemnation of the US blockade on the island [ see p. 39184 ] . |
| 21 | When two of the Society 's officials visited Orkney for consultation with the Social Work Department , the Orkney grapevine ensured that everyone in South Ronaldsay knew they were there within a very short time of their arrival . |
| 22 | A Croatian delegation led by Foreign Affairs Minister Zdenko Skrabalo visited Albania for talks on bilateral relations on Oct. 29-Nov. 1 . |
| 23 | 1949 Namibians petition UN for end of South African rule [ see pp. 10405-06 ] . |
| 24 | On May 25 he visited Kiev for talks with his Ukrainian counterpart , Vitold Fokin . |
| 25 | In late August the then Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze visited China for talks with his Chinese counterpart , Qian Qichen . |
| 26 | In April the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , Douglas Hurd visited both Hong Kong and China [ see p. 38147 ] and in July Francis Maude , Minister of State at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office , visited China for talks on Hong Kong . |
| 27 | In January 1991 Roman visited Strasbourg for talks on Romanian membership of the Council of Europe . |
| 28 | Hyundai and the SFI reacted to the decision by threatening to shut down all their Siberian logging operations and sue Greenpeace for loss of earnings . |
| 29 | March 11 Baker visits Egypt for talks with President Hosni Mubarak . |
| 30 | April 10 Baker visits Egypt for talks with Mubarak . |