Example sentences of "[vb past] in [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearby towns drew in labour for service or apprenticeship . |
| 2 | In a frank interview with the Mail on Sunday , Becky Blandford said that the Duke had called her a ’ filthy little scrubber ’ after she posed in lingerie for Tatler magazine … and complained that she and Jamie had not once been invited to dinner at the Palace even though they live on the estate . |
| 3 | It may seem at first sight that the plot of land , the fief , as it was called , was a reward for service , something granted in exchange for service , which would fall in when the vassal died and be regranted to a new vassal . |
| 4 | Ships impounded in hunt for woman 's killer . |
| 5 | On May 29 she arrived in Karachi for emergency talks with the Sind Chief Minister , Aftab Shahban Mirani , the Governor of Sind , Fakhruddin Ibrahim , and the Army Chief of Staff , Gen. Mirza Aslam Beg . |
| 6 | The releases occurred shortly before two AI representatives arrived in Swaziland for talks with the government . |
| 7 | Until the Van Sant collection arrived in London for display in the ICA on Pall Mall , and we were able to see his creations fly by the Round Pond in Kensington Palace Gardens and at the Festival Hall on the River Thames , most of our kite-thinking came in straight lines . |
| 8 | A further indication of the growing strength of Hispano-Axis relations came on 20 October , when the German police chief , Heinrich Himmler , arrived in Madrid for talks on police collaboration between Spain and Germany . |
| 9 | The Chinese Premier Li Peng arrived in Delhi for talks with Indian leaders on Dec. 11-16 . |
| 10 | THE 16 Europeans playing in this week 's Standard Register Ping tournament at Moon Valley , mostly gave their executive director , Andrea Doyle , a wide berth when she arrived in Phoenix for discussions on next year 's Solheim Cup . |
| 11 | Also on July 24 , an SNM delegation arrived in Mogadishu for talks with the USC . |
| 12 | In February 1259 John Fitzjohn fined in £300 for seisin of his father 's lands while still under age . |
| 13 | She returned in time for breakfast . |
| 14 | The crossbow , most useful in defence when the crossbowman , who needed protection for the time required to wind up his weapon , could hide himself behind a wall , was an elitist weapon , most effective in the hands of Gascons , who fought in Wales for Edward I , and of Genoese , a large contingent of whom fought on the French side at Crécy . |
| 15 | In 1888 he settled in Melbourne for health reasons but continued to travel widely , preaching repeatedly in Britain as well as in Singapore ( 1891 ) , India ( 1892–3 ) , the United States ( 1893–4 , 1895 , 1897–9 , 1901–2 ) , Canada ( 1897 , 1898 ) , Norway ( 1903 ) , and Germany ( 1903 ) . |
| 16 | The statement that ‘ the parties that contended in turn for domination regarded the possession of this huge state edifice as the principal spoils of the victor ’ is nowhere more true than in the immediate pre- and post-colonial competition among indigenous interests for the administrative positions hitherto reserved for the imperialists . |
| 17 | Others died in destitution for fear of the shame attached to a pauper funeral . |
| 18 | Thank you to all those who sent in goods for sale especially for those donated to NCT . |
| 19 | Thank you to all those who sent in goods for sale especially for those donated to NCT . |
| 20 | When the European Parliament 's regional policy committee last carried out a study in Northern Ireland it produced the Martin report , which resulted in £63m for housing , he added . |
| 21 | Pressure on exchange rates in late 1989 resulted in calls for currency stabilization on the part of the leading industrialized countries . |
| 22 | The races on both days resulted in wins for Scotland . |
| 23 | The legislative elections in Serbia resulted in gains for Milosevic 's Socialist Party of Serbia ( SPS ) which finished with 101 seats and the extremist Serbian Radical Party ( SRS ) led by Vojislav Seselj ( 73 seats ) . |
| 24 | Brawl The pot boiled over against Wales at Cardiff Arms Park that same year in a brawl of a game that resulted in bans for Gareth Chilcott , Graham Dawe , Wade Dooley and Hill , who was blamed for failing to exercise his captaincy correctly . |
| 25 | The German sights in particular — torchlit orgies of Nazi triumph , Hitler ranting in Stuttgart , storm-troopers stamping out the last flickers of academic freedom in Freiburg — showed him what lay in store for Europe and are vividly recounted here . |
| 26 | Further privileges lay in store for W. C. T. as a member of the Weavers ' Company — though nearly every entry in his name subsequently is confused by his double Christian names : even the document granting him his Freedom of the City had to insert ‘ William ’ in front of ‘ Charles ’ with a caret mark , and as far as the Weavers were concerned , he was really ‘ Charles William ’ . |
| 27 | Wherever they went a box of Kleenex tissues lay in wait for Diana , and for Charles , a mysterious red briefcase . |
| 28 | She lay in wait for pain , expecting no rewards from people , and this made her a hopelessly disconcerting friend . |
| 29 | She lay in silence for half-an-hour . |
| 30 | In the first years of the twenties Boulestin had been dabbling , in a small way , in picture dealing , starting off promisingly with a Modigliani bought in Paris for £12 and sold in London for £90 . |