Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [noun prp] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my room I fell to my knees to thank God for the sign he had sent me , and waited eagerly for daylight . |
| 2 | Having been frustrated in her 1988 cruise to Scandinavia , Islander headed north-east once more last summer and this time succeeded in passing through the Limfjord , sailing down the Kattegat and up into the Baltic as far as Stockholm before retracing her steps to visit Copenhagen for the second time on this voyage . |
| 3 | She swung round , her swollen eyes searching Duncan for the truth . |
| 4 | In Whit Week 1850 over 200,000 day-trippers left Manchester for the countryside and the sea . |
| 5 | According to the Middle East Times of Oct. 13 , Syrian officials blamed Turkey for the failure of the talks . |
| 6 | Serbs , Croats and Muslims have all committed crimes but UN investigators blame Serbs for the worst atrocities such as so-called ethnic cleansing , concentration camps , systematic rape and mass murder . |
| 7 | The remainder of the qualifiers played Stableford for the Rentokil Cup , and once again the winners were from Environmental Services , Richard Wooding from Pest Control , Mike Bayley from Medical Services and Sal Akram from Pest Control Newcastle . |
| 8 | It was almost a carbon copy of Kiwomya 's matchwinner in last week 's Coca-Cola Cup encounter with Aston Villa — the bookies ' favourites to overhaul Norwich for the Championship . |
| 9 | ALMOST 24 hours late , the first of several chartered trains left Prague for the West last night , carrying some of the 12,000 East German emigrants who had spent another night and a day on the chilly pavements around the West German embassy or in the embassy 's increasingly squalid grounds . |
| 10 | I looked at his young wife , Dawn , with her four young children visiting Salisbury for the week-end . |