Example sentences of "[noun prp] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1992–93 will be remembered as a good year for the University of Stirling for many reasons . |
| 2 | Bamberger orbited over Filfla for some time . |
| 3 | Now they 're coming back to Stoke Mandeville for more treatment and new wheelchairs . |
| 4 | He 'll be at Stoke Mandeville for some time and will receive schooling with lessons in English . |
| 5 | Beefy will report fit for today 's fourth Texaco Trophy clash with Pakistan , but skipper Graham Gooch said : ‘ It 's a problem which has troubled Ian for some time . |
| 6 | He had his own exchequer at Marlborough for this purpose , and accounted at the Westminster Exchequer for transactions there . |
| 7 | Of the three Mölln victims two had lived in Germany for many years and the youngest had been born in Mölln . |
| 8 | The 23-year-old is returning home to Bruhl in Germany for several days rest . |
| 9 | Cusick himself remained the unsung creator of the Daleks for many years , picking up little recognition for his work . |
| 10 | Leyhill prison on the Gloucestershire Avon border is as far from the popular conception of a jail as you can get.Modern buildings cluster around borders boasting blooms that many public parks would be hard pressed to match.Leyhill is an open prison … the last port of call for inmates nearing the end of their sentences.A hundred prisoners work on the nearly forty acres of lawns , borders and market gardens.Their skills won them a silver medal at Chelsea for this display of garden design.And at Leyhill , they 've created a spectacular show … with drifts of brightly coloured pelargoniums competing for attention with giant cannas … and a fine show of roses.New borders are being created all the time … giving the prisoners an opportunity to express themselves and learn techniques that could help them go straight when they 're released : |
| 11 | He then went into the Army and did not see Minton for some time . |
| 12 | Charles followed his advance band rapidly , and laid siege to Pavia for several months . |
| 13 | However all these composers are overshadowed in historical importance by a Flemish master of all-round achievement , Adrian Willaert ( c. 1490–1562 ) , pupil of Mouton in Paris , who served the court of Ferrara for several years from 1522 but went to Venice as magister cappellae at St. Mark 's in 1527 and spent the rest of his life there . |
| 14 | MCC REBELS , furious at the non-selection of David Gower for this winter 's tour of India , last night forced the famous club into a humiliating and expensive special general meeting to pass a vote of no confidence in the England Test selectors . |
| 15 | However , the vandalism to the signalling system in the Birmingham area terminated all trains from the Cambrian and Chester/Shrewsbury areas at Wolverhampton for some weeks from Christmas . |
| 16 | We found tragic proof of this on the most bitter 1 March for many years . |
| 17 | All railcards can be issued so that South Shropshire people no longer need go to Shrewsbury or Hereford for this purpose . |
| 18 | But it also signals the end of an ancient rite rejoicing in human warmth and in the sun 's return.Susanna Rance has lived and worked in Bolivia for several years . |
| 19 | Susanna Rance has lived and worked in Bolivia for several years . |
| 20 | ( I am indebted to Jill de Villiers for this example . ) |
| 21 | But the hope of it had been worth steeling herself to ask Edwin for that loan . |
| 22 | Salford chairman John Wilkinson added : ‘ Our scouts have watched Gary for some time . |
| 23 | He was worried about Kylie 's future welfare and insisted that Waterman and Co explained the problems he , and Jason for that matter , would face when it all ended . |
| 24 | She said nothing about Miguel to Victoria for several days , and Victoria did n't broach the subject of finding both of them in Miguel 's bedroom . |
| 25 | Yesterday 's rally by veterans angered at the way the once mighty army has fallen from its position of esteem was the biggest seen in Moscow for several months . |
| 26 | Glentoran have been eyeing Dundonald-based Ferguson for some time . |
| 27 | THINKING , talking and working along European lines has been second nature to Mike Ward for many years now . |
| 28 | Having already written for the NME for several months as the transvestite sex-poet Susan Williams I was nervous , a straw sucker acting brash in a den of sophisticates . |
| 29 | WACC has had contacts with CEPACS for many years . |
| 30 | WACC has had contacts with CEPACS for many years . |