Example sentences of "[verb] on [noun prp] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time of the war already an experienced journalist in his forties , Behr reported on Vietnam for Newsweek between 1967 and 1971 . |
| 2 | The prospect of being marooned on Gullholm for days with a Heathcliff bereft of his Cathy gave her the creeps . |
| 3 | Well do you know , when I met , I , I 'm meeting old chaps through this very excellent marriage agency , I 've never expected any thing like it , they are marvellous , and the sent me a nice old lad , but I knew I was onto a looser when he said , of course I go to my daughter-in-law every Saturday for lunch , she absolutely insists because she says , she wants to make sure that I 'm eating properly , now this is a very healthy old man with a very good income who could afford to buy any food he wants and the fact of the matter is his that he 's son is probably not , he does n't want to upset his old dad , and it 's handy to have him to come on Saturday for lunch and be done with it as it were , but I thought surely Bernard your own sense would tell you that nobody want 's their old father and father-in-law every Saturday of their life , for lunch oh . |
| 4 | I was already aware that Ian had recently lost an argument with a South Uist bend resulting in a change in vehicle and I can impart to all past and future travellers to the Uists who depend on Ian for transport that journeys are now much more sedate than they used to be . |
| 5 | ‘ We depend on Unprofor for oil supplies to fuel the generators around the city , but they only give small amounts and are refusing to give us newsprint . ’ |
| 6 | Jobs boom : More than 100 new staff are being recruited by the Pioneer discount store in Woodchurch Road , Birkenhead , which closes on Monday for refurbishment . |
| 7 | Elsewhere , Hastings Pier was packed on Friday for Splash ( rechristened by one DJ present as ‘ the all-England gurning contest ’ ) , Saturday 's country house alldayer near Bournemouth was generally acclaimed , while on Sunday night London 's Strut finally took off with a full turn-out for guest DJ Danny Rampling . |
| 8 | County rang the changes desperately , sending on Slawson for Lund in an attempt to pep up an attack in which Farina , the striker on loan from Bari , made a rather featureless full debut . |
| 9 | Calling on Lenin for support he claimed that the interests of French colonies , including the Indochinese , were best served by a ‘ free , trusting and paternal union with France ’ . |
| 10 | He still dared not look in McAllister 's direction , for Teresa Darrell , frequently calling on Norton for support , continued her diatribe about the servant question . |
| 11 | The product , based on NetWare for Unix 3.11 , allows MS-DOS , Windows and OS/2 NetWare systems to share data , files and print services with Unix workgroups . |
| 12 | Unable to cope alone , the Spartans called on Athens for help . |
| 13 | I said I 've got some boring people coming on Sunday for lunch . |
| 14 | Harvest started on Monday for Tony Lister , our barometer grower in the south-west , who manages W H Bond 's Bake Farm at Trerulefoot , Cornwall . |
| 15 | While one can not always rely on Taskopruzade for precision in regard to dates , nor for that matter even in regard to the reigns in which various events occurred , as has been seen , it is hard to accept that he is in error by some twenty or twenty-five years , especially in a period close enough to his own to allow him access to people who had lived in that period . |
| 16 | The largest fixed-rate offering ever witnessed in the Eurobond market , a $1.5bn five-year deal announced on Friday for Italy , which used the new money-making formula , provides disturbing evidence however that excessive competition , born of over-capacity , could yet ruin the latest attempts at restoring profitability to the market . |
| 17 | Though southern China suffered little disruption , many foreign buyers still look askance at relying on China for goods . |
| 18 | Wilkinson finally responded to the pleading of the crowd and sent on Cantona for Wallace with only six minutes remaining . |
| 19 | Never late Jo is , half-past eight sharp like a bloody train steaming up and come on Maggie for Christ 's sake they close the nursery doors at nine you should know that by now . |
| 20 | He had originally been accused of the offence along with five other men , who were jailed on Tuesday for terms ranging from four years to six years . |
| 21 | It raised hopes for a quick end to a 51-hour siege that began in a bloody shoot-out on Sunday morning as federal agents tried to serve arrest warrants on Koresh for firearms offences . |