Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [to-vb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many fear they will have to take out a second mortgage to pay for the spin-off merchandise from the Macauley Culkin sequel : Home Alone 2 : Lost in New York . |
| 2 | We have the sixty-first senator to thank for the length of the second . |
| 3 | When the first contestant to go for the top prize , Marine Captain Richard MacCutchin who , oddly , specialized in haute cuisine , pulled it off by describing the ingredients of a royal banquet given by George VI to the president of France , three-quarters of American television sets were tuned in to watch him wrestle for the answers . |
| 4 | TONY MILES , the first Englishman to qualify for the Grandmaster title , now holds the joint lead after six rounds of the Netway Masters in Auckland , New Zealand . |
| 5 | For me the high point of the week at Sunningdale was my first chance to commentate for the BBC . |
| 6 | Victoria Woodhull Claffin — later 19th Century free-thinking radical feminist who was the first woman to run for the office of United States President over 30 years before women 's suffrage . |
| 7 | The first foreigner to work for the Treuhand is Barry Hylton Davies , a project manager with British construction company John Mowlem . |
| 8 | Crawford had been the last actor to audition for the role of Buddy . |
| 9 | Lindner is sure to be in Australia 's World Cup squad which leaves early next month to prepare for the final against Great Britain at Wembley on October 23 . |
| 10 | Its decision last week to call for the removal of all sanctions , except the arms and oil embargoes , from the time that an election date was announced , rather than the elections themselves , indicates a clear understanding of the country 's dire economic situation . |
| 11 | He 's looking forward to travelling to Israel and Australia early next year to train for the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 . |
| 12 | Although government officials are confident of somehow finding a way next year to pay for the national backbone network , they are sceptical of the LDP 's ability to break through the ceiling on overall spending on science . |
| 13 | By the time she drained her glass she also knew that the last van to leave for the country about three weeks ago had been Chertsey bound . |
| 14 | The Australian is the third player to qualify for the 28-man event , which will again be held in December . |
| 15 | The Australian is the third player to qualify for the 28-man event , which will again be held in December . |