Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The FA could ban Wright from playing for England for a period . |
| 2 | With all Scotland quiet as a flat calm under his hand , he wants us to be quiet too , and let be the Mackinnons and the Maclaines of Lochbuie for a year or three . ’ |
| 3 | In 1631 Aylesbury encouraged Warner to edit and publish Harriot 's treatise on algebra , the Artis Analyticae Praxis , and wrote on his behalf to the ninth Earl of Northumberland for a reimbursal of expenses . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll pay in coin like I always does , ’ growled Jack , but his eyes flickered uncomfortably towards Isabel for a second . |
| 5 | The venue is ideally suited to importers and exporters for product and new vehicle launches and answers the immediate community need of Larne for a conference and exhibition centre . |
| 6 | Passenger ferry to Craignure on the Isle of Mull for a tour not only of Mull but a visit to Iona . |
| 7 | On his death , his Sussex estates and titles passed to Thomas Pelham of Stanmer who changed his barony of Chichester for an earldom in 1801 , another reward for royal service . |
| 8 | She reappeared into Cassie 's line of sight , and stood considering Johnny for a moment , her lip curled in contempt . |
| 9 | The Persons who inhabit the Cottages are chiefly poor Labouring People , who are induced to seek Habitations in the Forest for the Advantages of living Rent free , and having the Benefit of Pasturage for a Cow or a few Sheep , and of keeping Pigs in the Woods ; but many Encroachments have been made by People of Substance . |
| 10 | Or you can pop into the ancient Roman City of Chester for a spot of shopping . |
| 11 | The SIET hands out around £50,000 a year to young Scots who need help to get on and , often in the nature of things , to get out of Scotland for a while : some physics graduate from St Andrews who needs time at MIT , a violinist who needs to be at a foreign conservatoire . |
| 12 | June temperatures hit the south of England for a day , with London in the 70s . |
| 13 | But I did the whole of Orkney for a while I did everything that could be done . |
| 14 | Keyboard player Mark Taylor played a SY99/TG77 combination which will form the main part of his keyboard rig when the show hits the road at the end of May for a year long world tour . |
| 15 | Mr the headmaster has recently applied to Paul 's present local authority London Borough of Merton for a classroom assistant for Paul for thirty hours per week he does not know whether he will get that or a lesser number of hours or none at all , he was repeatedly , in my view quite rightly , extremely reluctant to express any view about what the outcome of his application maybe , but , rather force time is to which we have to guess , his guess was that ten hours might be afforded but he was at pains to emphasize that that was pure guess work . |
| 16 | Deciding that captaincy was affecting his batting , he stood down in favour of Fletcher for a season , resuming again in 1989 when the county did well but his own form was fairly ordinary . |
| 17 | The man accused of killing a pregnant mother on the M 50 motorway has petitioned the House of Commons for a prison transfer . |
| 18 | Your worship please I 'd like to make to application on behalf of Mr for a protection order in respect of Vigitalle Er , Mr Mr , Mr . |
| 19 | Will you take care of Carrie for a while ? |
| 20 | Ibn Hajar merely says that alter having served as kadi of Bursa for a while , " he went to Konya and settled there " . |
| 21 | The Arabic , for example , is ambiguous in respect of whether it is the copy or the itself that Yusuf Bali — who held the kadilik of Bursa for a time in the 840s-wrote ; and , on the evidence of the signature alone , it seems entirely possible that at some point , perhaps during his kadilik , he made a copy of the which Molla Husrev subsequently attested to be a true copy . |
| 22 | The Fledgling Award , worth £4,000 , went to Meteor of Cookstown for a business with less than three years ' trading and outstanding prospects . |
| 23 | The debris included empty wine bottles , food wrappers , part of a loaf of bread so hard the sparrows would bend their beaks , and a half-empty tin of baked beans with enough penicillin growing in it to supply most of Soho for a year . |
| 24 | When you had obtained a divorce a mensa et toro , you would have had to appear by counsel before the House of Lords for a divorce a vinculo matrimonii . |
| 25 | Suspected Sikh terrorists killed 19 Hindu students visiting the town of Patiala for a students ' festival on Nov. 10 as they slept in dormitories . |
| 26 | Under the terms of the deal , Howden is acquiring the business and property of Novenco for a price not exceeding £9.2 million . |
| 27 | Geoffrey Giffard , for example , the curialist Bishop of Worcester , was in October 1270 appointed to keep the royal forest and manor of Feckenham for a term of five years , and Ebulo de Montibus , a Steward of the King 's Household , held the offices of constable and warden of Windsor castle and forest from 1266 until his death in 1268 . |
| 28 | Demonstrators gathered in the centre of Oxford for a torchlight protest at what they say will be a refugee prison . |
| 29 | At Messina they succeeded in winning the support of Italy for a move towards broad economic integration , triumphing over both a more limited conception advocated by West Germany that fell somewhere between supranationalism and the old sectoral route , and the doubts of France over the whole concept of a common market . |
| 30 | His eyes met those of Jean-Paul for an instant . |