Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He emphasised that he placed no significance on figures showing Marks & Spencer vying for competition as the UK 's leading retailer . |
| 2 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt , Herbert C Hoover , Harry S Truman , James Abram Garfield and several others , were all regaled in song long before Sinatra and Monroe began serenading Kennedy or Streisand warbled for saxman Clinton . |
| 3 | Now the winter salon at Saracen , where Elinor waited for Adam , was not only the coolest but the most impressive room in the château . |
| 4 | Oersted Institute in Copenhagen found superconductivity in ( TMTSF ) 2 PF 6 , where TMTSF stands for tetramethyltetraselenafulvalene ( New Scientist , vol 87 , p 104 ) . |
| 5 | Top : Paul , Albert and Ralph this year , when Olympia & York filed for bankruptcy protection in America |
| 6 | In 1992 Olympia & York filed for protection from its creditors . |
| 7 | Seeing Laura dressed for school brought tears to her mother 's eyes . |
| 8 | Just as the shaman uses rhythms and natural psychedelics to conjure healing visions for the tribe , so Colin argues for raves as techno-pagan festivals , the potential site for a spiritual hedonism , a place where beats , psychedelics , dance and light can reconnect people with nature , transforming their vision of the world . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , it was no more than Scotland deserved for perseverance , and a fitting punishment for the obstinate Maltese when Nevin squeezed in a third goal in the 85th minute to ensure Scotland 's opening victory of this World Cup campaign . |
| 10 | It is easy in the quest for grave scholarly judgements to forget that Leapor wrote for pleasure . |
| 11 | Tyson 's lawyer Alan Dershowitz will claim that Washington tested for VD four weeks before meeting Tyson . |
| 12 | It was there that Jackson signed for Huddersfield , at a transfer fee of £2,500 . |
| 13 | Sheffield went ahead in the forty ninth minute through Bryson , and although Mountfield equalised for Villa , seven minutes later , Dean restored the lead for Sheffield after sixty two minutes . |
| 14 | The astonishing goal that Guscott dropped for England against Scotland was something to behold . |
| 15 | It was to her animals that Hannah turned for companionship — even conversation ! |
| 16 | But the appeal that Schopenhauer had for Nietzsche was far from being merely dependent on temporary circumstances , and it survived the return to everyday optimism that his life at Leipzig gradually produced . |
| 17 | He does not believe that Britain lacks for entrepreneurs , but he is concerned that many of them do not do their homework well enough . |
| 18 | ‘ Our case will be that Bjorn filed for divorce first here in Sweden . ’ |
| 19 | It was at this crisis point in his career , now aged 32 , that Gallacher signed for Derby County . |
| 20 | The results of all of this work is confidential to DEn , but released well material can be examined in the laboratories at the core store in Edinburgh that BGS manages for DEn . |
| 21 | The mingled exasperation and admiration that Pound felt for Binyon are nowhere so explicit and appealing as in what he wrote for Blast ( July , 1915 ) , so as to introduce into that inappropriately vociferous context nine quotations from the demure prose of Binyon 's The Flight of the Dragon . |
| 22 | Imagine a similar hilltop in the lovely countryside of Aviemore and a small stone-built lodge providing shelter for a corporal and two airmen at one of the quadrants of a bombing range that Kinloss used for practice . |
| 23 | Later in 1019 , the Chronicle says that Cnut sailed for Denmark and stayed there all winter . |
| 24 | Ten days later Ricky and Perdita left for Argentina . |
| 25 | The business seemed to be doing well and all day vans called for items which Joe had listed and William prepared for despatch . |
| 26 | She and PAMELA prepare for bed . ] |
| 27 | The company is currently looking for independent software vendors to develop add-on SQL applications , report writers , file editors and CASE toolkits for DataGate . |
| 28 | Ironic compliments were paid to Pierre , Donna and Raoul for the potency and effect of their acting and Raoul played for sympathy and looked nobly forgiving , holding a handkerchief to his nose and peering at it for blood , of which there seemed to be not much . |
| 29 | While Laura unpacked the picnic , before joining Emma and Sophie to search for shells along the shore , Ross managed to find enough driftwood to build a small fire . |
| 30 | So , if Lukic signed for Arse as a left back … his value would go right up . |