Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Laura unpacked the picnic , before joining Emma and Sophie to search for shells along the shore , Ross managed to find enough driftwood to build a small fire . |
| 2 | Lewis plans to take a long break — in Britain — after first heading to Las Vegas to commentate for Sky TV on the November 13 title battle between reigning champion Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe that will decide his opponent next April . |
| 3 | This Act enabled LEAs to arrange for children under school leaving age to have work experience as part of their education in the last year of compulsory schooling . |
| 4 | Given good management , that should be sufficient to enable LEAs to provide for children with special educational needs . |
| 5 | On June 17 Nicaragua made it obligatory from July 1 , in the interests of " strict reciprocity " , for all US citizens visiting Nicaragua to apply for visas . |
| 6 | The two meet at the Showgrounds this Saturday to play for pride — and players for places — in the final game before the Irish League campaign gets underway . |
| 7 | Last night ministers continued to look at a compromise prepared by the EC commissioner Sir Leon Brittan , incorporating a Dutch-led formula where the higher level would be the norm but governments would have the option of asking Brussels to intervene for mergers breaking £1.4bn . |
| 8 | The importance of the contest was well appreciated by the Unionist Party which sent not only the Prime Minister but also a number of other cabinet ministers to Bannside to canvass for Dr Bolton Minford . |
| 9 | This Act authorised LEAs to pay for pupils to attend independent schools , and enabled LEAs to recover the costs of providing further education for students not belonging to their area ( repealed in the 1980 Education Act ) . |
| 10 | One limited the powers of LEAs to pay for places in independent schools , another ( Section 10 ) encouraged the education of handicapped children in ordinary schools ( but see the 1981 Education Act ) . |
| 11 | ‘ We do not see how the department could describe the full implications of the new system of funding community care as being either foreseeable or insignificant ’ , it says , calling on the DoH to prepare for contingency spending . |
| 12 | Richard took hostages from them and then sent them and other members of their league to England to sue for mercy at his father 's feet . |
| 13 | Decision by González to stand for re-election |
| 14 | He returned to Scotland to play for Motherwell but in 1978 set his sights on London yet again . |
| 15 | EC aid plea A EURO MP is to meet EC Commissioner Bruce Millan to press for funds after the cliff landslide which destroyed a 110-year-old hotel . |
| 16 | It was France 's inexplicable failure to do better than draw with Cyprus in Limassol that helped Scotland to qualify for Italia '90 ahead of Michel Platini 's team . |
| 17 | Fine Gael is anything but left-wing : its roots can be traced back to General Duffy and the Blueshirts who sent a division of soldiers from Ireland to fight for Franco in the Spanish Civil War . |
| 18 | Yorkshire , for so long the ugly sister ( fancy clinging to the extraordinary notion that you wanted Yorkshiremen to play for Yorkshire ) had overnight turned into Cinderella , with Tendulkar cast in the role of the Prince who found the shoe fitted perfectly . |
| 19 | He then lived in Pagewood , Paley and Pugin Streets until he moved to Old Bidston Road to work for Cammell Laird as a French polisher . |
| 20 | Frances had left Faber to work for Alan Yentob at the BBC . |
| 21 | I found it depressing that they all had ambitions to go to Manila to look for work when they were older — taking a one-way ticket from the garden of Eden to Sodom and Gomorrah . |
| 22 | ‘ I first went there in 1987 , travelling with Chris Butcher and Peter Williams to play for Transvaal B , ’ he explained . |
| 23 | Steve continued with us in One until the following March , when he crossed the Atlantic to play for Vancouver Whitecaps for a couple of seasons , but he joined the Palace for a third time in the summer 1981 as our Youth Coach and was then appointed Manager in mid-November , charged with keeping the side in Division Two , following relegation from Division One . |
| 24 | George 's merits were recognised within the game with a number of minor representative honours , and when he left us he had a spell with Millwall before returning to the Midlands to play for Kidderminster . |
| 25 | It is a ludicrous situation of expecting people in high areas of unemployment like the Falls or the Shankill to look for jobs that do n't exist , to train for jobs that are not there . |
| 26 | On Monday Arsenal played Chelsea at Stamford Bridge and yesterday hundreds of their fans travelled to Portman Road to queue for tickets for Saturday 's Cup quarter-final . |
| 27 | We can see that this is her intention as she says , after telling Bassanio to leave for Belmont to help Antonio , ( Act 3 , Scene 2 , lines 304–305 ) |
| 28 | You visit Saddam Hussein to plead for hostages . |
| 29 | If he disappeared for more than a few hours she became frantic and ran to the Zborowskis ' apartment in the Rue Joseph Bara to ask for news , and almost lived there until he was eventually found . |
| 30 | Forster , without consulting his officers , sent to Carpenter to ask for terms , though the Scots threatened to kill him and fight on . |