Example sentences of "the country for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Farmers gather from all over the region and all over the country for the auctioning of livestock . |
| 2 | On Dec. 19 the Cabinet extended for a further six months from Dec. 31 the mandate of the multinational force deployed in the south and south-east of the country for the protection of Iraqi Kurds . |
| 3 | The most that the British knew about armies was that intermittently over four or five centuries they got together in a sort of militia or Home Guard in case the enemy arrived , and the necessity of a state to run the affairs of the country for the country 's salvation , was never so present to the British mind as it always has been to the minds of most continental people . |
| 4 | Amateurs wanted to get off to the country for the weekend rather than performing for the benefit of playing spectators . |
| 5 | I was nearly run over in New Palace Yard after the vote by the surge of Jaguars roaring out of the carpark and off to the country for the weekend . |
| 6 | He 's off on one of his jaunts with Sexy Lexy , and then they 're going straight down to the country for the weekend . |
| 7 | It was thought advisable to take some small place in the country for the benefit of our health … |
| 8 | ‘ Could n't you have made the boy into an ordinary thief , and then got him arrested and sent out of the country for the rest of his life ? ’ |
| 9 | He must have come from the country for the lava-lava was rarely seen in the towns , however small . |
| 10 | Thousands of Afghans , many of them children , were maimed by mines which were scattered , uncharted , around the villages ; five million others fled the country for the refugee camps of Pakistan and Iran . |