Example sentences of "[verb] in [num] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conwy Castle — Another impressive site at the mouth of the Conwy estuary , also created in 1283 for Edward I , with a still fairly complete line of town walls . |
| 2 | On grounds of style and also of known associations , several works can be attributed to Orchard : the Harcourt aisle ( c .1470 ) of Stanton Harcourt church and ‘ Pope 's Tower ’ there ; the church of South Leigh , a chapelry of Stanton ; and an aisle of the church in Waterstock built in 1500–1 for Thomas Danvers , lord of the manor and one of Waynflete 's agents . |
| 3 | An example of his speciality of playing companies involved in take-over battles against each other was his false claims to Guinness and Argyll , bidding in 1986 for Distillers , that each was bugging the other 's executives . |
| 4 | Having lost their captain , Zbigniew Boniek , arguably the greatest of Polish footballers , to Juventus , Widzew saw Dziekanowski as a replacement and so , at 21 , ‘ Jacki ’ was transferred in 1984 for 21m zlotys , a record between Polish clubs , amounting at that time to some £200,000 . |
| 5 | A tunnel taking a footpath through a hillside close to the village church was actually built in 1835 for Stephenson 's ( q.v. ) horse-drawn Whitby and Pickering Railway . |
| 6 | No-one knew of their existence in the city until 1903 , when they were found rolled up behind wallpaper in a room in the Primate 's Palace , a palace built in 1779 for Archbishop Jozef Batthyany . |
| 7 | It was built in 1702–8 for František Karel Přehorovský , by Giovanni Battista Alliprandi , a pupil of Fischer von Erlach . |
| 8 | No 2900 built in 1955 for Prince Charles and Princess Anne ; now a back up vehicle , used in the main when two trains are run , or to strengthen the principal train . |
| 9 | BIDDESDEN HOUSE , the last word in rural baroque , was built in 1710 for John Richmond Webb , one of Marlborough 's finest generals and closest friends , perhaps most famous for his victory at Wynedaele in 1708 . |
| 10 | This is the one-off SB–307B NC19904 which was built in 1938 for Howard Hughes for his attempt on the round-the-world record ( then held by himself in a Lockheed 14 ! ) . |
| 11 | Built in 1825 for William IV , it is just down the road from Buckingham Palace and , as our pictures reveal , Charles will live in the luxury he has become accustomed to at Kensington Palace and Highgrove . |
| 12 | The current site was built in 1860 for livestock walking into the market or coming off the train . |
| 13 | The spatial complexity and dramatic lighting of the staircase at Windsor had been achieved by May on a smaller scale at the earlier Eltham Lodge , Kent , one of the quintessential Restoration houses , built in 1664 for Sir John Shaw , and one of the few buildings by the architect to survive . |
| 14 | In an authoritative report prepared in 1985 for Greenpeace , Simon Northridge of the Marine Resources Assessment Group of Imperial College , London , and Professor Georg Pilleri , a respected dolphin expert , identified a lengthy list of incidental catches of dolphins and porpoises in gill-nets , of which the following are only a selection . |
| 15 | Deputy Minister of the Interior Juan Carlos Mazzón was also dismissed on Jan. 15 after Noticias magazine disclosed that he had served nine months of a three-year prison sentence imposed in 1981 for fraud . |
| 16 | London The Corporation of London office holds the official archives from the eleventh century to the present , and many documents are of wide interest , for they deal with jurisdiction and property interests in many countries , including the estates granted in 1628 for sale by the Crown to settle national debts . |
| 17 | From another article we learn that Giuseppe Valadier 's silver service made in 1801–1803 for Palazzo Pallavicini in Rome turns out still to be there . |
| 18 | Teddy Bears of Witney have the original Steiff Alfonzo , made in 1908 for Princess Xenia Georgievna , and a limited edition of replicas . |
| 19 | The award of Plate was founded in 1854 for acts of valour and life saving at sea and originally was a silver salver . |
| 20 | Subsequently another separate organization , ESRO , was founded in 1964 for science space research . |
| 21 | It has some elegant buildings , and is the centre of the Pestalozzi Children 's Village , named after Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi ( 1746–1827 ) , the Swiss educational pioneer and reformer , which was founded in 1946 for war refugee children of several nationalities . |
| 22 | The real advantage of all this is that if your fingers are trained to type /FS in order to save a file , the same command will still work in 1-2-3 for Windows . |
| 23 | This could not have been a simple financial investment , as the Grand Junction had manifestly no prospect of making any profit ; although its paid up capital was £420,000 , it was sold in 1894 for £6,500 . |
| 24 | Shipwreck treasure ( in particular porcelain ) has proved a strong seller at auction over the past few years , witness the Nanking cargo of 150,000 pieces sold in 1986 for £10.1 million . |
| 25 | The piece is still lovely ; it was sold in 1930 for $25,000 . |
| 26 | This trade continued until the Second World War , still making use of the water wheel which , ironically , outlived the steam engine , which was sold in 1900 for £45 7s . |
| 27 | On Dec. 20 the Riksdag approved the Social Democratic government 's plans to apply in 1991 for membership of the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 28 | Here , however , we describe a method originally used in 1904 for tubes by Mallock and adapted for linearly viscoelastic materials by the author ( 1974 ) . |
| 29 | They have found it hard to believe that 100 shares bought in 1973 for £145 are now worth nearly £7,900 . |
| 30 | Bawsinch Nature Reserve was bought in 1971 for £1,000 by the Scottish Wildlife Trust to provide a buffer zone for Duddingston Bird Sanctuary and provide additional habitats . |