Example sentences of "[to-vb] for [noun prp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , Johnrose was due to play for Preston at Pool a week ago , but he picked up a calf injury in the pre-match warm-up and missed the game . |
| 2 | The sense of national community is not helped by exhortations to cheer for England in Test Matches and the implication that those who do not are in some sense not good British citizens , and yet this sort of crude and simplistic interpretation of the obligations of citizenship was heard from some politicians in 1990 . |
| 3 | At a meeting in Edinburgh earlier this week of the cross-party European Movement , its Scottish Council agreed to campaign for PR in line with the system operated in Northern Ireland , even if England and Wales retained the first-past-the-post system . |
| 4 | I must be absolutely honest though and say that it 's not always going to be easy to try to live for Jesus at school . |
| 5 | The couple would like to care for Leah at home fulltime , but have been told they would be unlikely to receive funding for a night nurse to look after her while they slept . |
| 6 | The contempt which Anderson seems to have for McKendrick in scene sixteen ( which , as we shall see later , is also suggested by the level of politeness he uses ) is strongly marked by the fact that he allocates no turns to him at all . |