Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun prp] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Japanese came to Britain partly for low wage-costs and a welcoming government , but mostly because it is in Europe . |
| 2 | Yasser Arafat arrived in Jordan yesterday for talks with King Hussein , Reuter adds , as part of the American-backed effort to promote Israeli-Palestinian peace talks . |
| 3 | Mr Yeltsin 's foreign minister , Andrei Kozyrev , arrived in Washington yesterday for talks with Mr Clinton and other senior figures in the administration . |
| 4 | SIR Patrick Mayhew refused to discuss the enveloping Iraqi supergun row , when he arrived in Dublin today for the latest Anglo-Irish conference . |
| 5 | Mr Cyrus Vance , United Nations special envoy , arrived in Belgrade yesterday for talks aimed at solving the Bosnian conflict . |
| 6 | MEMBERS of Kimberly-Clark 's American board flew into Hawarden yesterday for a whistle stop tour around its Clwyd factories . |
| 7 | SDLP leader John Hume flew to Portugal today for a summit of the leaders of Europe 's social democratic and labour parties . |
| 8 | Peebles , who flew to Belfast yesterday for talks with Linfield officials , had a lone spell in the season just ending with Portadown as they made their unsuccessful bid to win the title . |
| 9 | It is surely significant that when the government of newly independent Zimbabwe was seeking finance to buy out South African interests in the country 's newspapers and establishing a new framework within which its press , television and radio could operate , it went to Nigeria both for finance and for advice . |
| 10 | Marcus looked at Pete blankly for a moment . |
| 11 | THE parents of a young Liverpool paratrooper killed by an IRA landmine defied advice and travelled to Ulster yesterday for their son 's inquest . |