Example sentences of "for [noun prp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He played soccer for Middlesbrough in the immediate post-war years and , in 1950 , moved to Portsmouth where he played professionally until 1958 , after which he drifted away from the club never to contact Portsmouth again ( W. J. B. Davis , Portsmouth FC Secretary , personal communication , 1979 ) . |
| 2 | Depressed production , costly for Leyland at the time , is good news for investors now because it has endowed the Stag with scarcity appeal . |
| 3 | Anne came back with cigarettes and chocolate and magazines and said goodbye to Terry , then she said she would wait for Sarah at the entrance and left them together . |
| 4 | And er my first job I had at Lyness was working for William on the tanks outside , tarmacadam under the tanks . |
| 5 | Pablo Riveroll of Baring Securities in Mexico City says the investment could be hugely profitable for Televisa in the long term , but notes that it will bring the firm no net profit until 1996 . |
| 6 | Someone sent somebody out to kill two hens ; a local gentleman , knowing the lie of the land , sent his servant to the inn with rum and sugar and an apology for not knowing of their arrival in sufficient time to put them up , and he had to leave for Inverness at the crack of dawn ; Boswell still had some bread despite the amount he had doled out to the Macraes . |
| 7 | According to Air Vice Marshall Peter Howard , who is in charge of selecting the astronaut , the Soviets can choose four ‘ finalists ’ but the British then decide on the two people who will leave for Moscow at the beginning of December . |
| 8 | Martyn Grimley , another Great Britain player , will be appearing for Brooklands in the Second Division . |
| 9 | No , I 'm going to fill in for Jim on the Canal project . ’ |
| 10 | Coming up shortly is a launch for Vauxhall of the eagerly awaited Corsa . |
| 11 | The Director is also Commissioner for Mines , and vice-chairman and national representative for Vanuatu in the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission ( SOPAC ) . |
| 12 | The US Congress had since early 1990 withheld $84,000,000 of aid for Panama pending the signing of an agreement . |
| 13 | Hunt became a national motor racing hero in 1976 when he lifted the world formula one championship driving for McLaren at the age of 28 . |
| 14 | In considering these figures it must be noted is that while the completion rates recorded for SEs in the 25 degree courses in the 5 institutions studied may well reflect overall completion rates for all SEs in these institutions , there is no evidence on this point , and Johnes and Taylor ( 1989 ) report considerably higher completion rates for the two universities involved in their study of the 1980 entry cohort ( Bradford 84% and Leeds 89.1 % ) . |
| 15 | We need some more meat for Ben from the pet shop . |
| 16 | and then he kept , he was on , will you come and work for me will you come , I was working for Holmes at the time |
| 17 | On April 3 the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) approved a standby credit of 236,000,000 special drawing rights ( US$322,000,000 ) for Czechoslovakia over the next 12 months . |
| 18 | ADRIAN DAVIES , Cambridge Blue and Welsh International fly-half , made his debut for CARDIFF in the Schweppes Cup win over Pencoed . |
| 19 | The waitress who had been covering for Doyle behind the bar eyed the baseball bat questioningly when he returned . |
| 20 | Very much the same story as I conjectured for Nosema in the flour beetle and for the fluke in the snail . |
| 21 | When the crowd sang Flower Of Scotland deep into the final quarter of the match , Hastings responded with a brilliant diagonal run off a dummy scissors which would have brought a try for Reed in the corner but for courageous defending from Davies . |
| 22 | Two years later he made 83 for Victoria against the West Indians , and in the following season , 1931–32 , his unbeaten 111 against NSW at Melbourne , which saw his side to an amazing victory when their target was 434 , persuaded the Test selectors to make him 12th man for the final Test . |
| 23 | His success at Brisbane and in the fifth Test , followed by a century for Victoria against the Englishmen , sealed his reputation . |
| 24 | But it was n't all gloom for Cauthen over the week-end and a brilliant ride landed the Irish St Leger on Mashaallah . |
| 25 | Janet gave up her secretarial job , and devoted herself to caring for Lisa for the next six months . |
| 26 | Final preparations are underway for an Oxfordshire convoy heading for Roumania at the weekend . |
| 27 | There is in fact a detailed expression of Plan B , which we may as well call Plan C. It was put out earlier this week as a joint reconstruction programme for LA by the Bloods and Crips , the LA gangs whose truce in fact began before the riots began . |
| 28 | The consultative group for Bolivia of the Group of Eight ( Western ) countries , in association with the major multilateral agencies , met in Paris on Nov. 8 and agreed to a total of US$926,000,000 in economic and development loans , reportedly on " very advantageous terms " , to cover the period 1991-93 . |
| 29 | Among the other contributors are José Marques de Melo , President of the Latin American Association of Communication Researchers ; Fátima Fernandez , Professor of Communication at the National Autonomous University of Mexico ; Hernán Uribe , Vice President of the Latin American Federation of Journalists , and Guido Grooscors , Ambassador for Venezuela to the Organisation of American States . |
| 30 | With the appointment of Shearman as the Board 's resident tutor in Bedfordshire and Baker 's appointment to a similar post for Cambridgeshire for the development of rural adult education , the Board 's rural areas sub-committee had emerged as a de facto permanent committee of the Board — a position constitutionally confirmed in 1932 through its formal designation as the Board 's Rural Areas Committee with Professor Barker as its chairman . |