Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from Mr Patten , four other ministers have lost their Cabinet posts : former Home Secretary Kenneth Baker , who is believed to have refused an offer to take over as Welsh Secretary ; Tom King from Defence , who asked for a break from office four months ago ; Peter Brooke from Northern Ireland ; and Lord Waddington , former leader of the Lords . |
| 2 | A contemporary of Gundulić was Junije Palmotić ( 1606–57 ) , a Ragusan noble who lived for a time in Bosnia , and who drew upon the Slav folk tales as well as on contemporary Italian and ancient classical traditions for the abundant outpouring of songs , satires , verse epics and dramas which he composed . |
| 3 | The details of the case were outlined by prosecuting solicitor , Huw Evans , who applied for a remand in custody until next Monday . |
| 4 | No one who thinks for a moment will suppose that that is a path in which there are no hills to climb . |
| 5 | By a painter who befriends him , and who sleeps for a while with his mother , Jaromil , already self-perceived as exceptional , original , is introduced to modern art , which ‘ had not yet become the shopworn property of the bourgeois masses and retained the fascinating aura of a sect , a magical exclusivity fascinating to childhood — an age always daydreaming about the romanticism of secret societies , fraternities and tribes ’ . |
| 6 | I recognized them as hands who rode for a Mr. Wolgast who supplied beef to the reservation up at San Carlos . |
| 7 | Although a perfect antidote to those who yearn for a return of those days . |
| 8 | Powell also displayed remarkable agility in dealing with the numerous Los Angeles collectors who vied for a share of the museum 's limelight . |
| 9 | Certainly those who came for a meal with Dorothy Mellings — while Alice was there , with Jasper — tended to come in ones or twos , mostly women , perhaps needing Dorothy 's advice , or even to borrow money ; divorced friends — so many of the couples that had been to the Mellings 's in the good days had split up . |
| 10 | The architect who advertises for a pupil ( 'talent no consideration' but a premium of £100 required ) might be Dickens 's fictitious Mr Pecksniff , who has never himself designed or built anything real , and trains his pupils on similar lines , ‘ constructing in the air a vast quantity of Castles , Houses of Parliament , and other Public Buildings ’ , a divorce between the idea and the actuality noted by Joe Gargery in the expressive phrase , ‘ drawd too architectooralooral ’ . |
| 11 | Adrian Jones , who studied for a number of years at Parnham House , has made a similar cabinet , and in the September issue he displays that piece and talks bout his work as a successful furniture-maker . |
| 12 | Alan Hey , who graduated in that year and now works in Sheffield , is planning a party for students who studied for a Diploma in Ceramics or a Manager 's Diploma in Ceramics . |
| 13 | But for girls who were unattached and less inhibited , and who yearned for a bit of ‘ fun ’ , the prospect of lavish meals in American messes , and gifts of sweets and nylons , accompanied , let it be said in all fairness , by flatteringly gallant , if brash , wooing , could be a powerful magnet . |
| 14 | under sections 6(2) and 61(1) of the Financial Services Act 1986 against a firm of solicitors who acted for a person carrying on an unauthorised investment business . |
| 15 | If each member of the legislature who votes for a checkerboard compromise does so not because he himself has no principles but because he wants to give the maximum possible effect to the principles he thinks right , then how has anyone behaved irresponsibly ? |
| 16 | Almost 30 pages of art for only £4.25 and as with Eastern Promise , copyright free for all those who knit for a profit . |
| 17 | Green Party TD , Trevor Sargent , who called for a debate on the matter , said that , as a result , the injured elephant could not feed itself . |
| 18 | It would seem to be doubtful whether a fall of this magnitude was commensurate with the effort put in by those who called for a boycott , that is , Provisional Sinn Fein , I RSP , Unity and Fathers Faul and Murray . |
| 19 | The name given to an Icelandic shepherd who worked for a farmer named Thorwall . |
| 20 | Mr Mafouz , a big , jolly man who worked for a travel agent , was compiling a dossier on him . |
| 21 | ( Their father , who worked for a specialist printer , died three-and-a-half years ago . ) |
| 22 | The death by drowning of a girl who worked for a Minister of the Crown and who died after dining at the restaurant where the Minister 's wife was also dining , whether or not he himself was present , would normally have justified at least a brief paragraph in one of the national papers . |
| 23 | It ends months of financial worry for Alan Govier , who worked for a printing firm for forty-nine years . |
| 24 | The list of British craft union leaders of this period is filled with men who worked for a spell in the United States or somewhere else overseas , as they might have worked for a spell in Newcastle or Barrow-in-Furness . |
| 25 | The currency dealer , who worked for a US investment bank in London , stole £3 million — but promised to pay back £2 million in return for immunity . |
| 26 | No wonder he could n't understand anyone who worked for a living . |
| 27 | Troy Hurtibese , who worked for a bungee team called the Adrenalin Rush Adventurers , died on the way to hospital . |
| 28 | It was also during this period that we had the strangest set of photographs taken of us , by Peter Christopherson who worked for a design company , Hipgnosis — whose offices were at the back of our Denmark Street HQ — and who later joined Throbbing Gristle , a band best known for tabloid spreads on their occult practices . |
| 29 | This uncertainty about the proper role of litigation by private citizens is also reflected in the requirement that a litigant who applies for a prerogative order must first seek the leave of the court to do so . |
| 30 | Candidates liable to pay the Overseas Fee , who apply for a University Studentship , are required to apply also for an Overseas Research Student ( ORS ) award . |