Example sentences of "[verb] for the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shall just have to wait for the next Guinness Book of Records for the answer . |
| 2 | Willie had caught the bug , and his first top professional tournament duly arrived with a trip to Turnberry for the News of the World PGA Matchplay Championship , caddying for the legendary Scot Eric Brown . |
| 3 | Even in Italy , where Campese plays for the other Milan club owned by multi-millionaire Silvia Berlusconi — AC Milan having slightly more kudos — Campese can walk around freely . |
| 4 | For many years I consulted for the American GE in Schenectady and the thing that struck me there was the way that when they wanted to attack a particular area they could mount an army of people on it , all of whom were pretty good . ’ |
| 5 | It would be appreciated if the Herts , Beds , Cambs. , teachers would attend to the teat at the Meeting arranged for the 27th February . |
| 6 | With its panoramic views over the River Thames at Docklands , it is a delightful venue for CCG catering manager Tracey Evans and head chef Steve Raven , who until the recent opening of the restaurant were catering for the 200 Reuters staff from a portacabin complex . |
| 7 | I had fallen for the oldest James Brown/James Brown joke in the book . |
| 8 | Based on figures calculated for the united Yemen throughout 1990 , the budget forecast a deficit reduction of some 27 per cent during 1991 , with a 43 per cent increase in revenue and an increase in expenditure of only 10 per cent . |
| 9 | It makes standard pear-shaped hot-air balloons for enthusiasts , and specially shaped ones for advertising or big egos — like the hot-air balloon it made for the late Malcolm Forbes in the shape of the American publisher 's French chateau . |
| 10 | AS GOOD as it got for the deranged Los Angeles combo . |
| 11 | This year 's theme is Museums and the Environment and a database will be set up on projects completed for the 18 May . |
| 12 | A win for Akinwande , who beat the much-hyped Herbie Hide for the 1989 ABA title , will elevate him close to a world top-10 rating , if not pushing him into the elite of one of the four organisations . |
| 13 | She was his mother 's toady , sneaking on the other maids , angling for the hated Mrs Gerard 's job . |
| 14 | Bearing in mind the fact that my constituents want a reliable and quality service , will he take steps today to confirm that the orders that are placed for the new Networker rolling stock will be supplied in the near future , for the betterment of the north-west Kent commuter ? |
| 15 | Sumisho Electronics Corp is is to distribute the parallel database servers from Bracknell , Berkshire-based White Cross Systems Ltd in Japan : three orders worth £750,000 have been placed for the 9010 Deskside Server — two for customers , one for Sumisho 's own Tokyo office . |
| 16 | A regular flow of books and short stories followed , among them : The Mystery of the Sea ( 1902 ) ; The Jewel of Seven Stars ( 1903 ) , a tale of Egyptian reincarnation ; The Man ( 1905 ) , a melodrama ; Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving , in two volumes ( 1906 ) ; Lady Athlyne ( 1908 ) , a romance ; Snowbound ( 1908 ) , a collection of short stories ; The Lady of the Shroud ( 1909 ) , which reached its twentieth edition in 1934 ; Famous Imposters ( 1910 ) , which included the story of the Bisley Boy , believed by some to have been substituted for the future Queen Elizabeth in childhood ; and finally The Lair of the White Worm ( 1911 ) , in which he revived the legend of a gigantic serpent capable of assuming human form . |
| 17 | The remains of the R-1 and R-2 were again rebuilt for the 1935 Bendix , but crashed on take-off killing Cecil Allen . |
| 18 | Rumours were rife that Wigan were poised to swoop for the 22-year-old Great Britain star and Saints were lining up Featherstone Rovers ' international Paul Newlove as a replacement but Mr Latham adds : ‘ There have been no enquiries for him he is contracted to us . ’ |
| 19 | You could of course opt for the new Marshall JMP-1 MIDI preamp , which would almost certainly do the job ; I could equally recommend Boogie 's TriAxis , but that breaches your £1,000 ceiling . |
| 20 | Last season it seemed as though Fairclough was one of those being blamed for the porous Leeds defence ( without the benefit of TV or live matches I 'm going entirely on what I read ) , and was one of the players stuck with a for sale sign at the end of the season by Wilko . |
| 21 | Walker , the England Youth international goalkeeper , who has been deputising for the injured Thorstvedt , gave away a free kick just inside his penalty area by taking too many steps with the ball . |
| 22 | Middlesbrough had the better of the first half once they survived the opening quarter of an hour when Ironside , deputising for the injured Pears , kept them on terms . |
| 23 | The nearest they came to securing the cushion of a two-goal lead came when Rush lobbed the ball into the path of Davenport , who failed to get sufficient power into a shot to beat Walton , who was still deputising for the injured Gunn . |
| 24 | Merseyside duo Jamie Cassidy ( Liverpool ) and David Thompson ( Wirral ) have been picked for the first England boys under 15s national trial at the Lilleshall Sports Centre next weekend . |
| 25 | The Programme will be the same as that organised for the 9th Jan . |
| 26 | In this case , the implied forward rate ( rearranging ( 7.15 ) ) is and the implied forward premium is i.e. , sterling is expected to depreciate against the dollar by 4.5 per cent to compensate for the lower US interest rate . |
| 27 | Rather than wait for the 28th CPSU congress due in July , as had been expected [ see pp. 37234-35 ] , a plenum of the CPSU central committee had given the party 's endorsement to the changes on March 11 . |
| 28 | Somebody Who Ca n't Wait For The New Morrissey Record , Milan |
| 29 | A judge decided that the poster advertising the film was much too close to the one used for the original Cleopatra . |
| 30 | Driving for the 555 Subaru World Rally team , he ended the 3-day event 7 minutes ahead of his nearest rival and leaves him in 6th place in the World drivers table . |