Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some time ago Pat Gaudin asked DSPG Members for details of any task/ standing groups with which they were involved , in order to prepare a comprehensive register . |
| 2 | She changed Phoebe Snow for Fela Anakupalo Kuti , a dive into Desmond 's Hip City … |
| 3 | In 1841 he moved to St Helens and erected Gossage towers for Gamble & Crosfields . |
| 4 | Salford , who turned down a Leeds approach for Ian Bragger , yesterday listed Steve Herbert for £20,000 , at his own request . |
| 5 | When Farries fought Benny Lynch for £5 at the Eldorado at Leith , the two Glaswegians cheerfully came home together on the train . |
| 6 | The exact sense of frileux had slipped my mind ; I asked Mr Berge for clarification . |
| 7 | JSB Corporation , Scotts Valley , California last week announced MultiView Desktop for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT with a view to helping the Microsoft challenger co-exist with Unix . |
| 8 | Clough broke the goalkeeping record when he paid Stoke £270,000 for Peter Shilton and ignored all warning notices when buying £150,000 of bad news from Birmingham , Kenny Burns . |
| 9 | In 1691 Gascoyne mapped the estates of James Cecil , third Earl of Salisbury [ q.v. ] ; the following year he mapped Sayes Court for John Evelyn [ q.v. ] , and in 1692 he was directed by Samuel Travers , surveyor of land revenue to King William and Queen Mary , to make a survey of the ‘ Mannor of East Greenwich in Kent ’ following the grant by the monarchs of ‘ the house at Greenwich to be a hospital for wounded seamen ’ . |
| 10 | BARNSLEY centre-back and skipper Mark Smith yesterday joined Notts County for £70,000 . |
| 11 | Paid J Binns for moles catching £1. 18s. 0d . |
| 12 | Master wheeler-dealer Ron Atkinson landed one of the bargains of the summer when he paid Liverpool £800,000 for Ray Houghton . |
| 13 | But Darlington have flourished since ; they paid Hartlepool £40,000 for Andy Toman and on Saturday broke the Conference record for an unbeaten start to the season . |
| 14 | Sumner , 24 , joined Belle Vue for £12,000 last year but struggled to hit form . |
| 15 | Bainbridge went to Preston and Price to Sheffield Wednesday for £ 1,000 each , while Hampson joined Aston Villa for £800 . |
| 16 | Which makes the 60,000 Stockport County paid Derby County for Kevin Francis look a snip . |
| 17 | And Forest paid Leeds £650,000 for Sheridan but , now , playing a commanding role in Sheffield Wednesday 's mid-field he 's worth £1 million . |
| 18 | Christie 's pulled off the biggest coup of the week , selling a complete , signed Vollard suite for £600,000 ( $906,000 ) to David Tunick bidding in the room , the first Vollard suite to sell at auction since 1982 ( although another set was unsold at Sotheby 's last year ) . |
| 19 | Last Thursday Petersfield Magistrates court fined Kedie £250 for possession of heroin and imposed a two year conditional discharge for possession of cannabis . |
| 20 | In chapter 5 below , David Howell , his leading backroom boy , describes the work of the Public Sector Research Unit , how it scoured North America for business methods adaptable to Whitehall 's needs and searched for think-tanks to visit . |
| 21 | Ever since he watched Grobbelaar play for Crewe at Fratton Park 13 years ago , Knight has been an admirer of the extrovert Zimbabwe international . |
| 22 | Montague bought Sherwood 's boxes for $537 million , Olsson took Sealink Ferries for $430 million and Sherwood kept the rest , including Hoverspeed , Sealink 's Isle of Wight ferry service , a refrigerated container business and 42 per cent of Orient-Express hotels . |
| 23 | Mr Wakil denounced Mr Najibullah for cowardice in trying to flee and said he had been forced to resign as head of the ruling Watan ( Homeland ) Party . |
| 24 | The ANC noted that the Gramm Amendment which prohibited US support for loans to South Africa from the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and the World Bank was still in force , and that the arms embargo and non-federal sanctions were not affected by the lifting of the CAAA . |
| 25 | More importantly , as a result of the publicity , Stuttgart Museum in West Germany offered Stan £180,000 for Lizzie . |
| 26 | She attended Bedford College for Women and entered University College London in 1871 , where she studied law and political economy , winning in 1876 first prize in Roman law and the Hume scholarship in jurisprudence . |
| 27 | Referring to Samantha Thompson , the teenager who was injured as she took Johnathan shopping for Mother 's Day gifts , he said : ‘ To injure a young innocent girl as well who went everywhere with him — that girl Samantha was like a mother to him . |
| 28 | Italian physiologist who won Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine in 1957 . |
| 29 | In America the company owns the Sterling chain and in October last year it bought Kay Jewellers for $425m . |
| 30 | If it gave Eva pause for thought it certainly did n't show in any relaxation of the pace she set herself . |