Example sentences of "[noun prp] in [noun sg] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was secure in his alibi , having spent the whole of the previous day in the Crown Court and the evening and night with friends at Norwich , only getting back to Chevisham in time for a late start that morning . |
| 2 | He joined the Post Office at Bedale in time for the Christmas rush of 1957 , but two years of his service were part-time . |
| 3 | Con Tours ( the big London-based travel agents ) have an arrangement with the hotel by which they receive preference bookings during June/July/August in exchange for an undertaking to take up a minimum number of bookings for the ‘ 'shoulder ’ months of May and September . |
| 4 | The peace process suffered a further blow in June when the USA suspended its 18-month-long dialogue with the PLO in retaliation for a Palestinian guerrilla attack on Israeli territory . |
| 5 | Lou Macari took charge of his first Celtic training session this afternoon at Seamill in preparation for the Old Firm clash at Ibrox tomorrow . |
| 6 | Lou Macari took charge of his first Celtic training session this afternoon at Seamill in preparation for the Old Firm clash at Ibrox tomorrow . |
| 7 | We met at Raven Square , Welshpool in time for the 12 o'clock train . |
| 8 | Caledor II personally kills Snorri Halfhand , King Gotrek 's son , before returning to Ulthuan in time for the hunting season . |
| 9 | According to unconfirmed reports the government had offered talks with Bhutto in return for an agreement to end the agitation . |
| 10 | Saddam offers to free Westerners held in Iraq and Kuwait in return for the withdrawal of US forces from the Gulf . |
| 11 | Muller will watch from the stand knowing he is destined to face the England B team at Bristol on Saturday in preparation for a confrontation of which he could once only dream of : ‘ Facing Will Carling and Jeremy Guscott at Twickenham . ’ |
| 12 | Reports in mid-October suggested , however , that US and United Kingdom investigators still believed that the new evidence did not rule out the original assumption that the attack had been ordered by Iran and Syria in revenge for the accidental shooting down in July 1988 in the Gulf of an Iranian airbus by the USS Vincennes , when 290 people were killed [ see pp. 36169-70 ; 37898 ] . |
| 13 | Even in Russia the years after the death of Peter I saw the exemption from service of considerable social groups hitherto liable — the merchants of Astrakhan in return for a money payment , the arms-makers of Tula , Church servants , some groups of the better-off peasantry . |
| 14 | The PR team in the Triple Crown press trailer faxed out releases at the start of the day which had hit England in time for the next morning 's edition . |
| 15 | I was back in England in time for the Easter term of 1931 and resumed my university life , but during the next three years I thought incessantly of that slow-flowing muddy river , of the arid , scrub-covered plains and volcanic mountains , the herds of ox and gazelle , the mat-roofed encampments , the slender , graceful figures in loincloths , attractive , armed and unpredictable . |
| 16 | In summer 1984 the Commission of the EC agreed to suspend legal proceedings against IBM in return for the following main concessions : |
| 17 | His arrest was expected to threaten the accord reached on April 9 between Sharif and the PPP which undertook to investigate allegations of the continued harassment of PPP members in Sind in return for an end to the opposition 's boycott of parliament [ see also above ] . |
| 18 | The original list of damage compiled by the Egyptian Antiquities Organisation has now been verified by the The Conservation Practice in West Sussex , England , and Gifford Consulting Engineers , who were invited to inspect the damage by UNESCO in preparation for a coordinated relief effort . |
| 19 | Unconfirmed reports suggested that the USA and South Korea agreed to consider removing US nuclear weapons from South Korea in return for a North Korean renunciation of its nuclear weapons programme . |
| 20 | That meeting ordered a new working group to try to reconcile the plan with the more cautious programme of Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov in time for the opening of a crucial debate in the USSR Supreme Soviet on Sept. 10 . |
| 21 | Boss Malcolm Crosby has taken only eight fit players away to Scotland in preparation for the derby clash and the Cup semi-final showdown with Norwich . |
| 22 | Artist Mary Jane Alexander spent 1989 sketching at Saltram in preparation for the exhibition . |
| 23 | REPUBLIC of Ireland midfield star Roy Keane was set to announce today that he will be joining Blackburn in time for the start of the new Premier League season . |
| 24 | Pyramid Research , a Boston-based consultancy , reports that western companies hope to use joint ventures in Eastern Europe to strengthen trading ties with Russia in preparation for the day when Cocom relaxes its controls . |
| 25 | In December 1984 a Constituent Assembly ( elected the previous July in preparation for a return to civilian government ) drafted a new constitution based on that of 1965 ; this was approved in May 1985 and came into effect in January 1986 . |
| 26 | This gave the Serbs control of most of a corridor across northern Bosnia linking Serbia proper with the Republic of Serbian Krajina ( RSK — the Serb areas in Croatia ) and was rumoured to have been part of a deal with Croatia in exchange for the army 's withdrawal from Prevlaka [ see above ] . |
| 27 | They were given intensive military training on Hainan island prior to going to Thailand in preparation for the invasion of Burma which was at an advanced planning stage . |
| 28 | Magistrates remanded Wilson in custody for a week . |
| 29 | The country is reported to be strengthening its relations with America , Germany and Canada in preparation for the UNCED summit to be held this June . |
| 30 | The Honours , then at Scone in preparation for the coronation of King Charles II , were taken to Dunottar Castle , near Stonehaven , after the ceremony and hidden in that formidable fortress . |