Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] for " in BNC.
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1 | For both locations the evidence is in the expected direction for OBS score at both time points ( though the difference is very small ) , and for Newham for percentage living alone and proportion having no closely involved informal carer . |
2 | Liberal MP for Hull for twenty-five years , was elevated to the peerage in 1904 as first Baron Nunburnholme . |
3 | And then it 'll come up , you know , I 'll put in w er one O two is the headlines for Ceefax for instance and then the stories will be from one O three to about one one five or something like that you see . |
4 | ‘ No , I can not concentrate until I know about Philippe for sure . |
5 | that 's what I said to Ron , I mean I 've never known I ca n't remember the last time I when I used to work for Colin for ten years trying to get a holiday out of Colin was like trying to get blood ! |
6 | Janet gave up her secretarial job , and devoted herself to caring for Lisa for the next six months . |
7 | With a two goal lead from the first leg the pressure was off Swindon for once last night as they tackled Wolves at Molineux … and when Nicky Summerbee gave them the lead they could afford to sit back and cruise to the third rounds … |
8 | With the appointment of Shearman as the Board 's resident tutor in Bedfordshire and Baker 's appointment to a similar post for Cambridgeshire for the development of rural adult education , the Board 's rural areas sub-committee had emerged as a de facto permanent committee of the Board — a position constitutionally confirmed in 1932 through its formal designation as the Board 's Rural Areas Committee with Professor Barker as its chairman . |
9 | After waiting for Shildon for half an hour Rain used the phone in the Cloister and rang the Post . |
10 | The Swiss Alps are now our destination where we head for Lucerne for a one night stop . |
11 | The question remained unanswered , for Counsel for the applicants accepted that any cause of action based on the treaty would not be justiciable in the English courts . |
12 | Within the next few months the silence in the Left media was further broken by articles criticizing councils such as Haringey for ‘ moralism ’ , suggesting that anti-heterosexist policies were undermining Labour 's traditional family-based support , and advocating psychoanalytic theory as the road to lesbian and gay liberation . |
13 | DAVID KILSBY David Kilsby joined the retail sales force in September as Merchandiser for the Southern area which covers from Cornwall to East Anglia . |
14 | The stall is booked for Saturday for the energy conservation bill campaign . |
15 | An old friend of President George Bush , Tower was a senator for Texas for 24 years and chaired the Armed Services Committee from 1981 to 1985 , but suffered humiliation in 1989 when the Senate rejected his nomination as Defence Secretary [ see pp. 36515-16 ] . |
16 | He had represented the rural seat of Mid-Londonderry for eight years when , in 1953 , he challenged the incumbent MP for Foyle for the nomination . |
17 | Good Evening : Six hundred travellers ' vehicles heading for Stonehenge for the Summer Solstice have been banned from there , so farmers here have been warned that they 're looking for an alternative location . |
18 | Hundreds of New Age vehicles are heading for Stonehenge for the weekend , but they 'll be turned away and could head north into Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire . |
19 | Bethune-Baker and his school at Cambridge disliked the anti-rational quality in the book — the ‘ scandalousness ’ of the Church and its gospel — and took several more marks off Hoskyns for begetting such a child . |
20 | Can we have a clap for Molly for |
21 | We leave at 12.30 for Jedburgh for their ball which goes on until 6.30 am . |
22 | ( Dvorak devotees can count their blessings for his stubborn spirit ; the composer 's American patron had requested an opera about Hiawatha for the great occasion . ) |
23 | Goalkeeper John Lukic left for Arsenal for £100,000 but returned for £1 million . |
24 | He says that it is a sad fact that many early RDS receivers failed to perform even basic tasks adequately , and many people have been put off RDS for life because of : ‘ experiences with receivers that performed inadequately and which failed to live up to the promises the broadcasters made for them ’ . |
25 | Named after Schwarzenegger for his terminating exploits , the big , strong tabby fell to an unseen swift car bumper blow . |
26 | But Graham refused to single out Wright for special condemnation after a stormy game featuring five bookings , saying : ‘ It would not be right for me to focus on just one player . |
27 | Erm , and sh she she was at the party when he , and she was going away , that was it , and she said , said to Wallis , will you look after David for me . |
28 | Similarly , a group of eighteenth-century French decorative prints by Janinet , Bonnet and others ( the second part of the collection partly sold last summer ) struggled to find buyers in the main , although Stanley Johnson bought the charming ‘ Les Hazards heureux de l'Escarpolette ’ ( lot 243 , est. £2,500–3,500 ) by de Launay after Fragonard for £4,200 ( $6,342 ) and David Tunick outbid Andre Candillier for ‘ The Mariage [ sic ] Presents ’ by Bonnet , part printed in gold ( lot 257 , est. £1,500–2,500 ) which made £4,000 ( $6,040 ) . |
29 | They said that Dalglish was after Batty for some time but Wilko refused to sell him . |
30 | Er I felt , I 've been after Danny for nearly twelve months to come see and not been able to get him on the night I want him the only night he was able , was available was I think it was one night when we had something else on I ca n't remember what it was . |