Example sentences of "to [noun prp] [verb] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She taught briefly in schools in Liverpool , Oban , and Eastbourne , and for a longer period in Tunbridge Wells , but eventually returned to Inverness to keep house for her invalid father , whom she outlived by only two years . |
| 2 | Erm as far as certification of er th the of a system is concerned er we are still comm committed to getting office certificated and as many of you may be aware the Swindon office has actually overtaken us on the B E S side erm and they are er , but hopefully we will achieve certification for the whole of our group erm prior to Swindon achieving certification for their whole group . |
| 3 | There was a damp start for fund-raisers yesterday , when walkers set out on the annual march from Cultra to Bangor to raise funds for the Northern Ireland Hospice in Belfast 's Somerton Road . |
| 4 | In March 1485 he was sent to Portugal to pursue negotiations for a bride for the recently widowed king , and he was thus out of England when Richard III was killed at Bosworth . |
| 5 | The Portuguese came to Brazil to win souls for Christ and to win gold for the king . |
| 6 | Resolving the gravitational force due to the star tangential to OA gives zero for A , while for B the force has a component towards A. Therefore there is a relative acceleration between A and B given by which is independent of the masses of A and B. Such an acceleration is called a differential or tidal acceleration ; it is unaffected by the choice of reference frame . |
| 7 | In May 1945 he was arrested by the American forces and taken to a Disciplinary Training Centre near Pisa , before being flown back to Washington to stand trial for treason . |
| 8 | As Clinton was taking up the reins of power , a disconsolate President Bush flew back to Washington to make arrangements for the handover . |
| 9 | By 1630 he had come to the notice of William Cavendish , Earl ( later Duke ) of Newcastle [ q.v. ] , who presented him to the living of Tormarton , Gloucestershire , and made him his chaplain at Welbeck , Nottinghamshire , where , in collaboration with Newcastle 's brother , the mathematician Sir Charles Cavendish [ q.v. ] , he maintained a correspondence , especially on optics , with mathematicians such as Walter Warner and John Pell [ qq.v. ] , and with Thomas Hobbes [ q.v. ] , whose references to Payne indicate respect for his character and abilities . |
| 10 | Severini , who had signed the manifestos but was not exhibiting , had come to Milan to ask Marinetti for financial assistance , and he advised that the Italian painters should visit Paris before exhibiting there as they intended . |
| 11 | ‘ Nevertheless , conditions in certain markets of importance to Volex give grounds for optimism and I expect the Group to make further progress in the current year . ’ |
| 12 | The Conservative Conference : Clarke urges Treasury Secretary to back NHS bid : Direct appeal to Lamont brings battle for additional health service funding into the public arena |
| 13 | The Bell award is available to UK domiciled students for advanced business studies at institutions such as INSEAD , Harvard , ( USA ) or a suitable UK College or University . |
| 14 | In desperation , some of the men tried to dig their way through to Stourbridge to get coal for heating . |
| 15 | The judicial squabbling provoked by the succession to Bigorre offered opportunities for intervention to the French crown . |
| 16 | The issue of German military involvement abroad became slightly blurred in late April when a total of 750 Bundeswehr troops were sent to Iran to build camps for Kurdish refugees [ see pp. 38127-28 ] . |
| 17 | Photography can help and all the profits from this book will be sent back to Calcutta to buy medicine for Jack and his workers . |
| 18 | He was able to manage the May term at Cuddesdon , though he needed still to go three times a week to London to see Browne for treatment . |
| 19 | And the eldest child , a girl of seventeen , was brought to London to keep house for her uncle , my father 's competitor . |
| 20 | The new man was soon in contact with Hardwick , who travelled to Stockport to discuss fittings for the School and who presented on 26th July what he probably thought was to be his final report , |
| 21 | Maria shivered and , moving closer to Luke to make room for the couple , she touched his wrist lightly with her fingers , unsure if the impulse to do so sprang from an urge to seek reassurance , or to give it . |
| 22 | But when he suddenly took ill and returned to Hollywood to undergo surgery for lung cancer , his son Christopher helped polish up some of the last few scenes . |
| 23 | Williams had gone to Bordeaux to do research for his doctoral thesis , ‘ The Economic Aspect of the Abolition of the West Indian Slave Trade and Slavery ’ . |
| 24 | Erm , I go to Silverstone to see races for two reasons . |
| 25 | After months of legal moves , the bid to have him extradited to Jersey to face trial for murdering his parents has been stalled . |