Example sentences of "to [noun prp] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She flew up to Nashville for two weeks ' work and called Dennis from her hotel room exactly eight days after their wedding . |
| 2 | In its first loan to Venezuela for 25 years , the World Bank on June 15 agreed a sum of $755,000,000 , 25 per cent of which would be set aside for debt reduction , the rest for structural programmes and in support of economic reforms . |
| 3 | Charles followed his advance band rapidly , and laid siege to Pavia for several months . |
| 4 | And then I went to Hereford for six months and I did er six months of medicine , and that was a long way from home in Essex and er we all sort of er mucked in and er made our own entertainment and cooked for each other and that erm was quite a good time . |
| 5 | Q : So you stayed happily married to Bernard for fifteen years ? |
| 6 | Anna Harland talked to Sarah for ten minutes . |
| 7 | It is of a rock type not common to the immediate area , the nearest appears to be found at Cayton and Cornelian Bays , ten miles distant , and is believed to have been brought to Rudston for religious reasons , since it was there long before the church . |
| 8 | Soon afterwards , Brian , in the middle of his national Service , was sent to Germany for six months . |
| 9 | Cos Pam 's son 's going to Germany for four years tomorrow . |
| 10 | Traditionally we go to Germany for sevens tournaments . |
| 11 | Libby and Eric are going out to Romania for three weeks in July . |
| 12 | Subjectively , Baldwin felt committed to MacDonald for several reasons . |
| 13 | She said nothing about Miguel to Victoria for several days , and Victoria did n't broach the subject of finding both of them in Miguel 's bedroom . |
| 14 | Instead of just , going to Tescos for some groceries or |
| 15 | He it was who inaugurated Continental excursions , for in 1925 he took a dozen boys to Bruges for eight days on an educational visit . |
| 16 | In the first half of 1853 he initiated or sanctioned three responses : " He appealed to Great Britain for support , and took out of the lumber room the forgotten agreement of 1844 " ; he sent an emissary to Constantinople for bilateral talks ; and he began to make plans for fighting . |
| 17 | The previous owner had parked a large , old-fashioned caravan at the back and the Canadian had made no difficulty about letting this to Neil for two pounds a week , seeing it as a useful way of having someone to keep an eye on the property . |
| 18 | is still enjoying her Glasgow life-style & loves her job … she 's going to Crete for 2 weeks in Oct. — we are going to the U.S.A. … to Oregon & Seattle from 12 th Oct. … to 2 nd Nov. … to see s brother & wife & family . |
| 19 | Sheffield might have increased their lead when Davison headed against a post and Spurs were indebted to Walker for two saves from Hodges and Davison . |
| 20 | He had been married to Ellen for six years but they had no children . |
| 21 | When The Marriage of Figaro begins , the count has been married to Rosina for several years , and is beginning to tire of her . |
| 22 | I was engaged to Simon for six months and a virgin when I married . ’ |
| 23 | The Cheltenham company must now decide whether to send Mark Driscoll back to Spain for more strawberries and risk a second confrontation with French growers . |
| 24 | Mozart returned to Salzburg for four months . |
| 25 | Had she done so she would not have said a word , would not have looked a word , would simply have sat on the bed and talked to Tina for ten minutes instead of the two of them sitting opposite each other in armchairs . |
| 26 | , Josias Christopher ( 1778–1848 ) , chemical manufacturer , was born at Graan Farm , Enniskillen , county Fermanagh , Ireland , August 1778 , the fourth son of David Gamble , whose staunch Presbyterian ancestors had moved from Ayrshire to Ireland for religious reasons during the reign of James VI . |
| 27 | American-born Susan , married to Denholm for 31 years and mother to his two children , Jennifer ( 29 ) and Mark ( 26 ) , was just 19 when they married . |
| 28 | It had been a surprise to Loxford for ten years , previously accustomed , as rural communities are , to modesty and neatness in the pastoral dwelling-house . |
| 29 | The threat of economic collapse , a government ( Papandreou 's ) which ended in a welter of corruption of the most Balkan variety and a very recent history of dictatorship certainly make Brussels preferable to Athens for many Greeks . |
| 30 | She 's in April , she and Anthony had been to Florence for four days . |