Example sentences of "[noun prp] were [verb] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of May Dorothy could write to her brother Richard that ‘ William has now some poems in the Bristol press ’ ; and by mid-September , just as Coleridge and Wordsworth were preparing to leave for Germany , the Lyrical Ballads were at last ready to be offered to an indifferent public . |
| 2 | The Guardian of June 20 reported that 20,000 Iraqi Kurds in a transit camp near the border in Silopi were refusing to leave for Iraq without guarantees of their safety , and the Turkish authorities reported that a further 12,200 refugees from Iraq were still accommodated in other camps inside Turkey . |
| 3 | Only problem was , and far be it for me to dampen any thrashing of another team , was that Wimbledon were allowed to play for a good bit in the second half and could have come back . |
| 4 | They demanded the very best in everything , especially in accommodation and service and so the very best hotels in Europe were built to cater for their every whim . |
| 5 | At the end of February , supported by many of the intelligentsia , workers in Petrograd and Moscow were incited to riot for better food rations . |
| 6 | In particular , they felt that enterprises in both Britain and Germany were having to cater for increasingly small market niches rather than for homogeneous mass markets . |
| 7 | In the name of self-help , the Masai were asked to pay for the waterworks by selling cattle . |
| 8 | Dicke and Peebles were preparing to look for this radiation when Penzias and Wilson heard about their work and realized that they had already found it . |
| 9 | ‘ And I was even more astounded when I heard what Norwich were going to pay for him . |
| 10 | Rumours were rife that Wigan were poised to swoop for the 22-year-old Great Britain star and Saints were lining up Featherstone Rovers ' international Paul Newlove as a replacement but Mr Latham adds : ‘ There have been no enquiries for him he is contracted to us . ’ |
| 11 | Preston and Wigan were having to apply for re-election having finished in the bottom two places of the Pontins League 's second division . |
| 12 | DERBY were made to pay for a sloppy display of defending as Guy Whittingham scored after seven and 50 minutes to take his season 's tally to 29 . |
| 13 | Acres of forest were felled to provide the timber , and whole tribes of Goblins were sent to forage for materials amongst the ruins of the Empire . |