Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought of startling Fred and Daisy with a flood of Italian when he met them off the boat train at Victoria Station , but at the sight of them his plans fled for excitement . |
| 2 | J A McGrath reports on an 11th-hour jockey switch for a strongly-fancied Aintree contenderBookmakers areprepared for £55mbetting spree |
| 3 | The crash on the A423 in Oxfordshire came as drivers headed for home after the weekend break . |
| 4 | Stirling , Cooper and Seekings headed for Benina which they knew from past experience was a major repair base . |
| 5 | On 7 August 1548 , Mary Queen of Scots sailed for France . |
| 6 | ‘ Particularly since the public rose to the occasion when the Sick Kids appealed for £10 million . ’ |
| 7 | The two policewomen radioed for help when they got into trouble trying to deal with the fracas . |
| 8 | The price which the clergy paid for exemption from taxation in parliament was the encroachment of the king upon , and the dominance of his business within , their own provincial synods . |
| 9 | A set of four covered Quianlong Chinese porcelain vases went for FFr 1,310,000 ( est . |
| 10 | Peacock allowed him to complete his hat-trick from the spot in the 86th minute — after fans chanted for Kelly . |
| 11 | But only a few hundred yards away from homes targetted for eviction … other RAF quarters stand empty . |
| 12 | Damiani and his wife went to Jordan in 1950 while his brothers looked for work in Beirut . |
| 13 | Fights erupted outside supermarkets as shoppers battled for parking spaces in desperate efforts to stock up with canned goods . |
| 14 | A FRANTIC pre-match ticket scramble was sparked today in Co Derry as thousands of anxious Gaelic football fans battled for places at next weekend 's All-Ireland showdown at Croke Park . |
| 15 | Keen Oxford readers queued for hours . |
| 16 | So whether you 're tidying away some of those large toys that the kids had for Christmas , and have got fed-up with , storing a few treasures in the loft , using it as a laundry or shopping basket , or even to clear up the garden rubbish , the ‘ Monster ’ will take it . |
| 17 | On one side of him was the complex inhabited thicket of the hedge in which flocks of bullfinches competed for fodder and invisibly singing warblers were stationed at thirty-yard intervals ; on the other was a great sloping reach of field , the earth a reddish copper colour and patterned like a Japanese garden with the swirls and furrows left by machinery . |
| 18 | Holos for local businesses , net stations and archaeological attractions competed for attention , whooping and gyrating on their daises . |
| 19 | Hundreds of fans queued for hours in the cold to see the pop group EMF stage a special concert in their home town . |
| 20 | Hundreds of fans queued for hours to meet the man who became heavyweight champion of the world but in the process developed Parkinson 's Syndrome , a disorder of the nervous system . |
| 21 | Nineteen Cubans and Spaniards were allowed to disembark , plus three passengers with authentic visas ; the remaining 900 or so Jews waited for news of the negotiations which involved , variously , the Cuban President , his director of immigration , the shipping line , the local relief committee , the ship 's captain and a lawyer flown in from the New York headquarters of the Joint Distribution Committee . |
| 22 | COLUMBUS CAPER : Jim , Sara and friends keep their eyes skinned for laughs |
| 23 | The resolution had insisted on " a full and effective response " to UK and US requests for the surrender of two Libyans wanted for trial for involvement in the Lockerbie bombing . |
| 24 | It had been reported in September 1992 that a Libyan intelligence defector was under US protection after providing information on two of four Libyans wanted for trial in Scotland and the USA in connection with the Lockerbie bombing . |
| 25 | When ownership is transferred the system resets the status flag to appropriate values and members of this group need only examine those entries flagged for attention . |
| 26 | It simply recognizes the importance of retaining the experience of G M B activists in a situation like now where thousands upon thousands are being made redundant and in many cases victimized for trade union activity . |
| 27 | Japan 's Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications will send a group of telecommunications experts to Vietnam on April 10 to hold a seminar about infrastructure development in Japan : Vietnam 's Minister of Transport and Telecommunications asked for Japan 's co-operation in developing the country 's telecommunication networks when he visited Japan in February , the Ministry noted . |
| 28 | When parents applied for assistance they were asked to provide general information about the family , including occupations , earnings , rent , and size of accommodation . |
| 29 | There is no surplus from which to pay a dividend , but when directors asked for £162m of new capital through a rights issue at this time last year , shareholders were promised an unchanged final 7.64p , so they should receive it on July 1 . |
| 30 | The vice-chancellors asked for papers to inform their debate on fees at Leeds . |