Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BONG : Then foreign correspondent Brent Sadler , 41 , who quit ITN for CNN at Christmas , split with his second wife . |
| 2 | Melanie could not have supported a laughing , singing Victoria for breakfast and Uncle Philip might have struck the baby , which would have been dreadful . |
| 3 | Steve Stoutt , Grimsby 's defender , has joined Lincoln for £10,000 and plays today . |
| 4 | The strike was called off on July 15 , when the opposition met Ratsiraka for talks , but their dissatisfaction with the results prompted a resumption of strike action and the announcement that a retired general , Jean Rakotoharison , had been appointed president of the opposition provisional government , with Albert Zafy as prime minister . |
| 5 | I would class him as one of the promising youngsters ( he is only about 21 and on the verge of the Norway team ) Remember Standli is Wilko 's ‘ most exciting ’ signing since he got Hirst for Sheff Wed . |
| 6 | Frain should have joined Sunderland for £350,000 but the move collapsed when Birmingham chairman Samesh Kumar demanded a clause be inserted in the deal that would give Birmingham 25 per cent of any sell-on fee . |
| 7 | I mean Hambleton for example having just produced their draft local plan , but other districts are not quite in that position . |
| 8 | Many of the PAN 's traditional supporters appeared to abandon the party to support Salinas for fear the left might win . |
| 9 | Kennan met MacArthur for lunch on 1 March ; MacArthur stated that there had previously been only one successful military occupation in history and this had been Julius Caesar 's achievement in the subjugated barbarian provinces . |
| 10 | Michael Fereday from London has a tip for anyone wanting to customize their machine using WordPerfect for Windows macros … |
| 11 | ‘ He 's never forgiven Josh for Ebbie dying the way he did . |
| 12 | ‘ As greige weavers , we 're using Tencel for strength and other properties . |
| 13 | April 1990 : Foreign Minister De Michelis visited Moscow for talks with his then Soviet counterpart Eduard Shevardnadze . |
| 14 | July : Andreotti visited Moscow for talks with Soviet President Gorbachev , mainly on bilateral trade , economic aid and German unification . |
| 15 | March : March 5 : United Kingdom Prime Minister John Major had talks in Moscow with Gorbachev on the Gulf conflict and the situation in the Baltic states ; March 7 : the RFSFR and Czechoslovakia signed a trade co-operation agreement ; March 12 : it was announced in Moscow that the withdrawal of the 50,000 troops stationed in Poland would begin in April , although the process would not be completed before 1994 ; March 14-16 : following a tour of the Middle East , US Secretary of State James Baker visited Moscow for talks on the situation in the Gulf and the presentation of a six-point US plan for peace and stability in the Middle East ; March 18-20 : UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd visited both Kiev and Moscow for discussions on British-Soviet relations ; March 22 : Soviet-Romanian treaty of friendship and co-operation initialled in Moscow ; March 28 : Bessmertnykh held further talks in Tokyo in connection with Gorbachev 's forthcoming visit . |
| 16 | May : May 8-11 ; in a tour in support of Middle East peace talks , Bessmertnykh visited Damascus , Tel Aviv ( the first trip to Israel by a Soviet Foreign Minister since the state was founded in 1948 ) , Amman and Cairo ; May 15-19 : the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party , Jiang Zemin , visited Moscow for talks on Sino-Soviet relations ; May 15 : Lev Voronin , a former deputy Chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers , was appointed ambassador to the EC ; May 27 : the last Soviet troops on active duty in Czechoslovakia were withdrawn ; May 28-31 : Primakov was in Washington for talks with US leaders and World Bank and IMF officials to discuss Western aid . |
| 17 | Japan 's Foreign Minister Michio Watanabe visited Moscow for talks with his Russian counterpart , Andrei Kozyrev , on May 3-5 , concerning the longstanding territorial dispute between the two countries over the four most southerly islands in the Kurile chain which had been occupied by the Soviet Union in August 1945 . |
| 18 | IMF officials who visited Moscow for talks on Aug. 24-26 said , however , that Russian authorities , including Gerashchenko , were still in general agreement on the plans . |
| 19 | In turn , Goff invited Minton for weekend visits to his four-hundred-year-old cottage at Dallington in Sussex . |
| 20 | Having fallen in love with the theatre in the Free German Youth , a left-wing group dedicated to rebuilding Germany for socialism , Ruth called Bloomsbury House to say ‘ she was very interested in dramatic work and hopes one day to take it up as a career ’ . |
| 21 | There is speculation that Grand Metropolitan , challenging McDonalds for supremacy of the fast food market , could pay up to £16m for the Allied branches . |
| 22 | Sangheli visited Bucharest for talks on Aug. 18-19 with Romanian Prime Minister Theodor Stolojan . |
| 23 | Following his visit to Saudi Arabia in February [ see p. 37266 ] , Saleh received visits in March from the Jordanian and Egyptian Prime Ministers , and on April 14 the North Yemeni Prime Minister , Abdel Aziz Abdel Ghani , visited Syria for talks with President Assad . |
| 24 | Frustrated dynastically as well as sexually , Ecgfrith is likely to have blamed Wilfrid for Æthelthryth 's contumacy . |
| 25 | March 9 Baker visits Kuwait for talks with Crown Prince Shaikh Saad al Abdullah as Salim as Sabah . |
| 26 | According to the defendants ' version of events , a women had approached Khmara for help , claiming that a man had attacked her ; Khmara and his companions then tried to make a citizen 's arrest on the man , unaware that he was a KGB officer . |
| 27 | You 're straight in there with ‘ Understanding WordPerfect for Windows Macros ’ in |
| 28 | Shortly after the exercises , in early May , the Prime Minister of Singapore , Goh Chok Tong , visited Brunei for talks with the Sultan . |
| 29 | March 13-14 Baker visits Syria for talks with President Hafez al-Assad . |
| 30 | April 11-12 Baker visits Syria for talks with President Assad ; Syria maintains its opposition to a " regional conference " and presses for a full international conference with a UN presence . |