Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun prp] [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The agreement here was for the sale of a London house for £1.3 million , plus furniture for a further £200,000 . |
| 2 | As the conservative party prepares itself for a turbulent debate on Europe tomorrow , many of them will be turning to the work of a Cotswold publisher for guidance . |
| 3 | The court heard of royalties that vary widely between countries and of a Sony deduction for packaging in excess of the actual cost . |
| 4 | Dr Charles Fox receives a Valentine 's Day cheque from Gavin Hill and Martyn Ireson of Northampton Canoe Club at one of their pool sessions towards a Bio-Rad machine for diabetics . |
| 5 | Embarrassed , feeling too like a Peeping Tom for comfort , he scrambled to the floor . |
| 6 | Nearby was the giant oak where Buddie had tied a heavy rope , knotted at its end , as a Tarzan swing for Frankie . |
| 7 | Her organisation is preparing a complaint about a Boots advertisement for Ostermilk featuring a bra with two Ostermilk tins inside , which claims : ‘ Any closer to breast milk and we would have to change the packaging . ’ |
| 8 | The South African government is inviting tenders for two cellular telephone licences it plans to award , with a mid-June deadline for applications : the successful bidders will have to pay the government about $33m upfront for the licence and 5% of turnover in annual licence fees , the Financial Times reports ; Cable & Wireless is expected to bid for one of the licences in partnership with the local M-Net pay television station . |
| 9 | The electronics have been very neatly incorporated inside a connector hood with a BNC socket for input lead connection . |
| 10 | A FLYING lesson turned into a Biggles adventure for instructor Pat Harris and pupil Linda Hunt . |
| 11 | Cayman System Inc , Cambridge Massachusetts has updated its XGato software for turning a Apple Macintosh into a X-Window client for users of standard server release 2.0 which support colour monitors . |
| 12 | When we met Sharon she was living in a London hostel for women recently released from prison . |
| 13 | The cult leader , who recently served 14 months in a US jail for tax evasion , is the father of 13 children . |
| 14 | A balance of 22% of managers , who control billions of pounds of pension funds , questioned in a Gallup survey for brokers Smith New Court , said they intended to increase their property portfolios throughout this year , the highest since the survey began almost three years ago . |
| 15 | The best lots were a Georgian inlaid marble chimneypiece , circa 1770 , sold to a London dealer for £21,500 ( $38,915 ) , and a mahogany state bed , George IV , designed by Willliam Porden , circa 1820 sold for £17,000 ( $30,770 ) to an American buyer on behalf of the Gerald Arthur Ralph Foundation for Historic Preservation and Education . |
| 16 | The morning 's highest price was achieved for John Fernley Senior 's picture of a hunt at Belvoir Castle ( lot 90 , est. £80,000–120,000 ) which sold to a London dealer for £119,000 . |
| 17 | Plus Points : Easy to use , maps can be converted to a PCX file for use in presentations . |
| 18 | Plus Points : Easy to use , maps can be converted to a PCX file for use in presentations . |
| 19 | The one-piece oscar went to a Leiston man for £105 and the broken one was sold for an amazing £85 . |
| 20 | The Moroccan Prime Minister , Azzedine Laraki , applied to a Paris court for injunctions against Radio French Internationale and Antenne-2 , which had broadcast interviews with Perrault . |
| 21 | They 've been around along time , however , and there are those , Gavin Friday included , who would put their meandering career down to a Dublin penchant for beer , bars and general untogetherness . |
| 22 | By the 1920s Frank Hender had bought it and installed a small brass finishing workshop on the upper floor , the lower section being let to a Mr Thompson for shoe stiffening manufacture . |
| 23 | Estimated at $500–700,000 , it sold to a Citibank client for $715,000 ( £476,666 ) . |
| 24 | It 's half-past nine on a Saturday evening for Christ 's sake . |
| 25 | He 's also pleased that the centre is now the base for several local groups including the Women 's Institute , the WRVS lunch club , a mother and toddler group , and the ‘ hobby horse ’ club for eight to twelves which attracts over 20 on a Friday evening for folk songs and dance . |
| 26 | COSE will be doing an executive panel on distributed computing supposedly fleshing out OSF 's Distributed Computing Environment versus Sun Microsystems Inc 's ONC+ versus a COSE hybrid for developers and presumably tackling issues such the proposed COSE-compliant Motif and whether the application programming interface will stick . |
| 27 | A RIFLE owned by the Wild West heroine , Annie Oakley , was sold at a London auction for £84,000 yesterday — five times its expected price — to a private collector from San Francisco . |
| 28 | POLICE are hunting thugs who went on the rampage and wrecked a mobile classroom at a Cleveland school for youngsters with special needs . |
| 29 | The case was seen as a major defeat for the DEA particularly as , by acquitting the defendant rather than merely dismissing the charges , Rafeedie ensured that Alvarez could never again be tried by a US court for Camarena 's death . |
| 30 | Competitively priced estimates ensured a high level of sales : Chagall , forty-four lots out of fifty-one sold in the room ; Miró , thirty-one lots out of fifty-one sold ; Picasso , seventy-five out of ninety-two lots sold ; Hockney , thirty-one lots out of thirty-three sold ; Tapies , nineteen out of twenty-four lots sold ; Warhol , thirteen lots out of twenty-one sold , including an astutely estimated set of Marilyns ( lot 842 ) , bought by a London dealer for £115,000 ( $173,650 , est. £100,000–120,000 ) . |