Example sentences of "from [noun prp] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gary Bennett ( centre back ) : Only five short of 300 appearances for Sunderland since signing from Cardiff for a bargain £80,000 , Bennett has been a great servant to the club . |
| 2 | ‘ I talked to a couple from Stirling for a while — Mr and Mrs Maclean . |
| 3 | Mr Rakebrand ( 33 ) an agriculture engineer from Adendorf , Germany , was shot soon after he and his wife arrived from Germany for a holiday . |
| 4 | He missed the presentations to meet his brother flying from Germany for a family reunion . |
| 5 | Baby Bogdan , brought from Romania for a life saving operation to drain fluid from his brain , is ‘ satisfactory and making good progress ’ in Middlesbrough General Hospital . |
| 6 | The Doctor looked away from Bernice for a moment , and she could have sworn it was with genuine remorse . |
| 7 | You think that 's especially true and like say Aberdeen if you go in a shop there and and , at least it used to be the case , and asked for something you be thought you were speaking fine but they would just say , Oh my you down from Orkney for a holiday ? |
| 8 | There had been no word from Eve for a week , which was not a good sign . |
| 9 | He was away from Valencia for a total of nine months and in that time two dramatic events took place . |
| 10 | Validation was sought and obtained from CNAA for a start in January , 1981 . |
| 11 | First team custodian Fred Barber is only on loan from Peterborough for a month , so there is a good chance that Munson will make his Division Three debut before the end of this campaign . |
| 12 | Mr. Philpot travelled from Pembrokeshire for a gathering which was not primarily a fund-raising event , but rather a celebration of the building carried out over the previous fifteen years to provide extensions of both premises and facilities . |
| 13 | When the children were older , Green took them out on longer walks , when he was painting or drawing in the hills , and occasionally took one of them on one of his excursions , when he would stay away from Ambleside for a week or more . |
| 14 | The Arnhem veteran had come from Salisbury for a memorial service . |
| 15 | He was rusticated from Cambridge for a year , and never returned . |
| 16 | It would be good , I thought , to get her away from Laurence for a while … |
| 17 | Certainly , as Abraham set out to offer Isaac as a sacrifice in the way God had commanded him , his faith was flying blind in its implicit obedience , just as it had when he set out from Ur for a country which he had never seen . |
| 18 | Claire Hughes , 25 , who had just returned from Australia for a family Christmas , was trapped with Robert , 26 , and widowed mum Kitty , 60 . |
| 19 | On Nov. 20 de Klerk rejected a request from Goldstone for an extension of the Commission 's remit to investigate the activities of public and private security forces and armies inside and outside South Africa as recommended by the UN Secretary-General in August [ see p. 39037 ] . |
| 20 | A dark wood folding chair , new from Barwell for a fiver . |
| 21 | His one piece of good fortune that summer was that he resisted ( for the second time ) strong pressure from Jones for a meeting with Hitler . |
| 22 | Premier John Major broke off his holiday in Spain last night and recalled Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd from Italy for a meeting in a bid to save his Yugoslavian peace initiative . |
| 23 | And he called back Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd from Italy for an emergency meeting today . |
| 24 | It was just as good a place as any to get away from Julius for a while . |
| 25 | He drastically lowered the price demanded from Turkey for an end to the War of 1806–12 , and having deprived Sweden of Finland he hastily concluded a treaty with her in 1812 . |
| 26 | ‘ Could … do you think you could stay away from Taipei for a while , Luke ? ’ |
| 27 | Divorcee Rebecca Gunner and daughters Sarah and Nicola were flying from Amsterdam for a sunshine break on the Algarve , Portugal . |
| 28 | The MGN chairman , Sir Robert Clark , is believed to have flown back from Bermuda for a board meeting but board member Lord Hollick , a Labour peer , stayed abroad ski-ing . |
| 29 | She loathed being parted from Ricky for a second , and Felicia , the ponies Ricky and Drew had lent her were still very green |
| 30 | But well-I did n't have that information you got from Nowak for a start , saying Taczek had confessed . |