Example sentences of "[noun prp] for a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRIAN ANDREW , a controversial figure in the parochial world of Cornish rugby , will at last play in a county championship final tomorrow , having twice lost out to Graham Dawe for a place in the Twickenham spotlight . |
| 2 | Accusations of corruption had been levelled against Ibrahim for a number of years , and in May President Gayoom yielded to demands that the State Trading Organization ( STO ) , which was under Ibrahim 's control , be investigated for evidence of corruption . |
| 3 | ‘ My wife and I have lived in Fenny Drayton for a number of years , it is a small village on the Leics/Warks border about half a mile from the main A5 trunk road . |
| 4 | Cricket and Empire started life as film research commissioned by David Puttnam for a film on Bodyline that was never made — losing out to the unintentionally funny Australian TV mini-series many readers will remember from the early 1980s : ‘ David wanted me to find the ‘ smoking gun ’ . |
| 5 | Avery sat to Minton for a couple of portraits and for a period saw him about once a fortnight . |
| 6 | My guess is that Swod blames Mills for a lot of the operations that went wrong . ’ |
| 7 | FRANK BRUNO wants a Riddick victory over Evander Holyfield for a short-cut to his third world title shot . |
| 8 | We arrested a bloke called Peter Lawton for a series of armed robberies . |
| 9 | A second attempt on April 3 , in the guise of a proposal for a vote of censure for Yeltsin 's " unconstitutional " call in March for a declaration of war on the Soviet leadership [ see p. 38079 ] , was defeated by 485 votes to 121 . |
| 10 | Work will be carried out relaying pavings in Library Square from Monday 23 March for a period of approximately four weeks . |
| 11 | Folly bit back the feeling of disappointment that crept over her , and summoned Lisa for a council of war . |
| 12 | Bannister , 32 , pleaded with Clough for a trial at the start of the season after being kicked out by West Bromwich , but he missed several chances in Saturday 's 0-0 draw at Chelsea . |
| 13 | She continues to work as an account manager with ICI for an area in the South East which includes Oxford . |
| 14 | ‘ Sunday Evening : Off to Windsor for a benefit for Thames Valley Hospice . |
| 15 | I. Industrialists use the advantage of the transshipment of goods at Hull for a number of flour mills and also oil-seed mills which make cattle cake . |
| 16 | He sat in the corner of the Silver Shuriken , as far away from the bleeding video jukebox and bleeping zapper games as possible , sipping the foul antifreeze that passed for beer in the U.S. of Bloody A. He would have cut off his left doughnut and sold it to Johnny Galtieri for a pint of Six X Wadsworth , two bacon-and-cheddar sarnies and a packet of crisps with a blue twist of salt in them . |
| 17 | In October 1981 , I went to Moscow for a conference on quantum gravity . |
| 18 | I 've been asked to reply my right honourable friend the Prime Minister is in Moscow for a series of meetings including meetings with President Yeltsin and Prime Minister . |
| 19 | She gave a quick glance at her watch , put on an hour on the ferry to accommodate the time change , and saw that it had gone six , and that , apart for a stop for petrol and a brief stop in Aachen for a cup of coffee , she had been driving more or less continuously since just after nine that morning . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Er , we 've been working in Harlow for a couple of years now and as you may know , we as Paul said , finished the first phase of Three Hills which is the Ayletts Field scheme which provided sixty six properties for a low cost home ownership and two special needs properties and we 'll also be starting in the next couple of months er , on providing low cost home ownership in Church Langley erm it 's funded by yo , yourselves . |
| 22 | As well as establishing a nominated Senate and a Legislature elected by universal male suffrage , it gave the presidency to Louis-Napoleon for a period of ten years . |
| 23 | Hugh and Joyce Gardiner have been with Timex for a total of 44 years and never believed that their fight could have reached such a pitch . |
| 24 | Charles Foster , prosecuting , said the officer arrested Kelly for a breach of the peace after he struggled with him and pushed the officer away . |
| 25 | I got the impression that Uncle Phil lived with Meli for quite a few years in in Brighton for a couple of years before she died . |
| 26 | He was to go to Brighton for a fortnight in another play , in 1950 , A Phoenix Too Frequent by Christopher Fry , whose well-wrought and ‘ difficult ’ verse dramas had so unexpectedly caught the taste of the public . |
| 27 | I remember in June going to Brighton for a meeting of the National Association of Health Authorities . |
| 28 | Imagine going all the way to Inverness for a pint of milk … |
| 29 | Late abed in a sumptuous local B&B , then Martin is off at 6am , to drive to Inverness for a flight to Heathrow . |
| 30 | Darlington magistrates fined David Humphreys for a series of pollution offences , but he said he could not pay the fines and faced bankruptcy . |