Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | After I was at court I had to go back to Low Newton to wait for a few weeks before I could go to Styal prison . |
| 2 | Then Swindon asked for a million pounds , Chelsea offered nothing , and Hoddle was valued at a maximum of 175 thousand pounds . |
| 3 | Rodney Hampton ran for 138 yards and Jeff Hostetler passed for a pair of touchdowns . |
| 4 | Sunderland asked for a £50,000 facility fee for admission to their match with Middlesbrough . |
| 5 | And we see the RAF prepare for a flypast to celebrate their seventy fifth anniversary . |
| 6 | With her new role Alison qualified for a company car . |
| 7 | A NIGHTCLUB bouncer accused of murdering Marie Wilks asked for a cloth to clean his car hours after her disappearance , then asked to keep the cloth , a court was told yesterday . |
| 8 | Whitehall asked for a slower offtake of the gas , a guarantee that UK companies would share in the development of three platforms in 1990 , 1992 and 1994 , and that the natural gas liquids ( NGLs ) from Sleipner should go by UK pipelines to Flotta in the Orkneys . |
| 9 | DALIAN ATKINSON could be the next target as England manager Graham Taylor looks for a hit-man . |
| 10 | In 1940 , Lola Hahn-Warburg and Elaine Blond for the RCM joined with the Council for German Jewry to appeal for a state support for Youth Allyah . |
| 11 | Chris Nicholls from Plymouth asked for a Turbo The Tortoise infinite lives poke , so thanks go to W Keenan from Tyne and Wear for his/her help . |
| 12 | I take a hotel on the rue Larbi Ben M'Hidi , formerly the rue d'Arzew where Camus lived for a while , a street of arcades and white buildings with yellow ornamentation . |
| 13 | Two years ago the 41year-old received a similar amount when his former teams of Liverpool and Arsenal met for a testimonial match . |
| 14 | How come the board have allowed Cuntona to go for a sing and a prayer ? |
| 15 | Bella asked for a divorce because she was going to marry Jim . |
| 16 | Stéphane Dumas looks for a soul in things that have been thrown away to continue their life as rubbish . |
| 17 | A lot of the members told me I was very good — I could pull clubs well and read greens — and I should try going to the Bing Crosby to work for a pro in the tournament . |
| 18 | erm many people came to Kuwait to work for a short term and after a while they realised it 's fine so they continued to stay there for a long time , and that is the haven that we were talking about . |
| 19 | One Sunday I asked Biddy to come for a walk on the marshes . |
| 20 | They were both astonished and Lomas stopped for a moment to stare at the floor . |
| 21 | Steve continued with us in One until the following March , when he crossed the Atlantic to play for Vancouver Whitecaps for a couple of seasons , but he joined the Palace for a third time in the summer 1981 as our Youth Coach and was then appointed Manager in mid-November , charged with keeping the side in Division Two , following relegation from Division One . |
| 22 | On a snowy winter 's day in 1948 , Czech communist leader Klement Gottwald posed for a photo with his inner circle . |
| 23 | Benjamin 's parent 's home was created by Richard Sylbert on a sound stage , but the underwater sequences , which Dustin practised for a week , were shot in a real outside pool with a glass wall for photographic purposes . |
| 24 | But le Havre and Cherbourg opted for a simple and austere classicism , with the new vogue for geometrical emphasis to the fore . |
| 25 | The death in December 1989 of Prime Minister Herbert Blaize allowed for a reshaping of Grenadian politics during 1990 . |
| 26 | Bella telephoned for a taxi . |
| 27 | * The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has launched a report in Brussels calling for a radical overhaul of the Common Agricultural Policy . |
| 28 | This followed United States calls for a multilateral effort to persuade North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons development programme [ see also this page ] . |
| 29 | Anne Billson yearns for a touch of Mel Brooks in Europa Europa |
| 30 | The influential US Senate minority leader Bob Dole calls for a cut in foreign aid to Israel . |