Example sentences of "from [noun prp] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Major , EC president for 11 more days , has to wrestle with difficult issues like Denmark , which voted against Maastricht in a referendum , and plans from Brussels for a massive increase in spending . |
| 2 | As many of you will know , we are going at the end of January , with the programme , to Australia , to be broadcasting live from Sydney for a whole week to mark Australia Day . |
| 3 | I had made a start in Burmese at the School of Oriental Languages in London , going up from Stepney for a weekly lesson , so I could read haltingly and use a score or more greetings and questions , which deceived the kindly village people into thinking that I knew more than I did , with the result that an opening sentence of mine would elicit a whole string of Burmese from which I would only pick up a word or two . |
| 4 | He could do it all over again with striker Ken Charlery , who scored 26 goals last season after Turner snatched him from Maidstone for a give-away £20,000 . |
| 5 | The Pistols ' label Virgin received a demand from Matlock for a substantial sum of money as NME went to press . |
| 6 | She had lived all her life in the street running alongside the railway , and since she had retired from her late father 's business , a haberdashery store in Wimbledon , since she had sold it to a family from Northampton for a good price , Hannah Worthington walked each day to the shop at the end of the street . |
| 7 | EIE also has the right to buy the freehold from Whitbread for a nominal sum . |
| 8 | Those registered users of Word for Windows requiring the upgrade can obtain it from Microsoft for a nominal fee of £7.75inc.VAT . |
| 9 | JOCELYN BROWN flies in from America for a one-off show for the Songwriters Network at London Subterania on May 6 . |
| 10 | So Diana was deeply distressed when the Sunday Mirror newspaper ran a front page story claiming that , on November 5 , Diana drove from London for a secret meeting with Prince Charles aboard the royal train in a siding at Holt in Wiltshire . |
| 11 | If you want to try them , you can buy them from Clare for a small consideration which will be donated to charity . |
| 12 | I married Clive because Mummy told me he was suitable for me , and I had n't had a letter from Felipe for a long time … |