Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] for [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A CAREER diplomat was jailed for nine months yesterday for using United Kingdom High Commission bank accounts to profit from a currency black market . |
| 2 | A DETECTIVE inspector 's daughter was jailed for six months yesterday for stealing £3,000 from athlete Kriss Akabusi , who won a World Championship gold medal . |
| 3 | She must have been an exceptional item , because Rich can hardly get the words out for trembling woooh noises and peculiar scatological asides . |
| 4 | A Turkish lorry driver was jailed for 16 years yesterday for smuggling heroin worth £1.2 million in his vehicle . |
| 5 | Do you know one or two of my friends castigated me two years ago for taking food to somebody who was sleeping in the gardens . |
| 6 | It had been brought to the house by a friend only a few weeks earlier for shooting rabbits on the Blenheim estate . |
| 7 | HOME Secretary Kenneth Clarke was criticised by police officers yesterday for shelving plans to arm them with a truncheon they say could have protected injured policewoman Leslie Harrison from attack . |
| 8 | Finally , in Kidlington on the A423 , Langford Lane at the junction with Banbury Road , the temporary traffic lights there for resurfacing work prior to the traffic lights being installed , are creating one or two delays this evening . |
| 9 | The Chief of Federal Police , Romeu Tuma , who was under investigation by the military police allegedly for favouring smugglers shipping coffee into Paraguay , announced on April 1 that he intended to resign . |
| 10 | Comparing television with the press , for example , the public rated television a full 1.0 marks better than the press for providing issue-information , and 0.7 marks better on providing leader-information , but only 0.3 marks better for helping viewers and readers decide how to vote ( Table 6.9 ) . |
| 11 | However , those are occasions more for boosting morale than for scrutinising the operations of a parish . ’ |