Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun prp] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the leadership of the acting chair Kyi Maung , the NLD contacted the SLORC for the first time on June 21 , requesting national reconciliation talks . |
| 2 | The meeting blamed the ANC for the violence in Natal , calling on it to abandon the so-called " armed struggle " ; furthermore , it urged the ANC deputy president , Nelson Mandela " to accept [ Buthelezi 's ] repeated invitation to sit down with him and to talk peace " . |
| 3 | In 1964 , when Pople left the UK for the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh , as it was then called , his departure inspired one popular British newspaper to the headline Another brain down the drain , but given the lamentable levels of financial support by successive UK governments for the theoretical research in which Pople was to excel , it is unlikely he could have achieved so much without moving . |
| 4 | But then the bridegroom 's mother , Cara White , whose catering firm handled the receptions , sued the Smiths for the £836 . |
| 5 | More than six hundred passengers boarded the Balmoral for the cruise . |