Example sentences of "[verb] from [noun prp] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ED BEHR , middle right , reported from Vietnam for Newsweek from 1967 to 1971 , and has recently been a consultant to the producers of the musical Miss Saigon . |
| 2 | Darlington-born Walsh who made three League appearances for Boro after joining from Horden Colliery Welfare , departed from Feethams for Bristol City . |
| 3 | Her great grandfather , Henry John Dutton , was a Baptist missionary who sailed from England for Jamaica in 1839 . |
| 4 | In 1834–6 he was in the West Indies trade , and in 1837 sailed from London for Hobart , commanding the Superb ( 345 tons ) . |
| 5 | Now we 've got some a van load of wood to be collected from Derby for bonfire night . |
| 6 | Inside-right John Jackson , 23 , came from Clyde for £1,000 , one of Leeds ' largest outlays , and Fred Blackman , described by the Yorkshire Post as ‘ possibly the most stylish and polished back in the Second Division ’ , was bought from Huddersfield Town . |
| 7 | Wright cost Liverpool £2.2m when he joined from Derby 18 months ago , Stewart was bought for £2.1m from Spurs and Thomas came from Arsenal for £1.5m . |
| 8 | Knighton is ready to offer the Manchester United boss a new deal on the 50.6 per cent shareholding which he sought to buy from Edwards for £10m , and which is now the subject of a damaging legal wrangle in the High Court . |
| 9 | Monkou , bought from Chelsea for £750,000 this season , limited Chris Kiwomya 's attacking abilities in a game of few opportunities . |
| 10 | Although Club members will receive this luscious lipstick free of charge with their magazine , Endless Kiss lipsticks can be bought from Avon for £2.99 . |
| 11 | Cantona , sensationally bought from Leeds for £1.2 million this week , will not be considered for this afternoon 's battle at Highbury . |
| 12 | French farmers recently sought to protect their markets by setting fire to a lorry load of live sheep being exported from Britain for slaughter in an abbattoir in mid-France . |
| 13 | UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher called the execution " an act of barbarism " , and the British ambassador was recalled from Iraq for consultations ; planned ministerial and trade visits were cancelled and Iraqi students attending Ministry of Defence training courses in the UK were sent home . |
| 14 | STYLING TRICKS FROM CLAIROL FOR LIFE IN THE FAST LANE |
| 15 | Eight Soviet diplomats were expelled from Norway for espionage according to an announcement of Oct. 21 [ for last such expulsions , in mid-1987 , see p. 36242 ] . |
| 16 | That was when Fernandez was hired from Miami for $195,000 a year and a basket of pension plans that would excite a baseball player . |
| 17 | derived from Verlaine for John Griffith |
| 18 | The French government on Aug. 20 ordered a ban on the import of all domestic refuse , after the discovery of quantities of hazardous waste concealed in consignments of domestic rubbish imported from Germany for disposal in landfill sites in France . |
| 19 | Francis , signed from Burnley for £50,000 , had a lively game . |
| 20 | CHRIS ARMSTRONG , signed from Millwall for £1.5 million yesterday , will make a sensational debut for Crystal Palace against Manchester United at Old Trafford tonight . |
| 21 | Gerard McMahon , an 18-year-old Irish whizzkid signed from Glenavon for £30,000 , is included in the squad for the trip to Oldham . |
| 22 | The 21-year-old Nottingham-born Cole , signed from Arsenal for Pounds 500,000 in the summer , faces Wolves today hoping to improve on his tally of three goals in the past nine games . |
| 23 | But Hirst is also very different from the teenager signed from Barnsley for £200,000 by Howard Wilkinson , overawed by the move , size of Sheffield Wednesday , and so unfamiliar with professional routine that he ordered a plate of bacon butties for his pre-match meal . |
| 24 | Understandably , much has been made of Henry VIII 's offer of a pension of £1000 to the pro-English and Protestant earl of Glencairn in 1544 and of the money to be sent from France for Mary to distribute to Arran , Beaton and others in 1545 . |
| 25 | Pick Systems Inc has recognised for some time that it will have to concentrate on the database side of Pick 's personality in order to survive , but currently only around 40% of sales comes from Pick for Unix , with a few percent going to the MD-DOS implementation and the native Intel Corp iAPX-86 implementation accounting for the biggest part of the business . |
| 26 | It was announced that Mrs Ann Lucas has resigned as Minutes Secretary since her new job makes it difficult for her to travel from Aberystwyth for committee meetings . |