Example sentences of "from [noun prp] for a " 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 | He missed the presentations to meet his brother flying from Germany for a family reunion . |
| 4 | Mr Rakebrand ( 33 ) an agriculture engineer from Adendorf , Germany , was shot soon after he and his wife arrived from Germany for a holiday . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | She went into the hall , glad of anything that would take her mind from Dana for a few minutes . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | Carruthers was appointed as District Geologist in charge and Dinham was also posted there from Scotland for a few years . |
| 11 | There had been no word from Eve for a week , which was not a good sign . |
| 12 | He was away from Valencia for a total of nine months and in that time two dramatic events took place . |
| 13 | Validation was sought and obtained from CNAA for a start in January , 1981 . |
| 14 | Co-ordinated Land and Estates , which bought the Milngavie course from Stakis for an undisclosed sum last year , believe Dougalston , only minutes from Glasgow city centre and within easy reach of Glasgow Airport , is ideally placed to cash in on the golfing tourists . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The Arnhem veteran had come from Salisbury for a memorial service . |
| 20 | He was rusticated from Cambridge for a year , and never returned . |
| 21 | It would be good , I thought , to get her away from Laurence for a while … |
| 22 | Finally sport : Oxford United have made a new signing this afternoon ; Jim Magilton has joined from Liverpool for a hundred thousand pounds . |
| 23 | On Nov. 25 Dijoud arrived from Paris for a second visit , this time with a letter from President François Mitterrand for Gouled Aptidon . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Claire Hughes , 25 , who had just returned from Australia for a family Christmas , was trapped with Robert , 26 , and widowed mum Kitty , 60 . |
| 27 | 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 ] . |
| 28 | A dark wood folding chair , new from Barwell for a fiver . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The Pistols ' label Virgin received a demand from Matlock for a substantial sum of money as NME went to press . |