Example sentences of "to [noun prp] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may also appeal to Whitehall for more money . |
| 2 | Aubrey says Lady Debrace is taking her down to Brighton for some sea air , but I do n't suppose they 'll go for long . |
| 3 | Charles followed his advance band rapidly , and laid siege to Pavia for several months . |
| 4 | Subjectively , Baldwin felt committed to MacDonald for several reasons . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Instead of just , going to Tescos for some groceries or |
| 7 | He would have had to apply to Penny for that information , Maria realised . |
| 8 | When The Marriage of Figaro begins , the count has been married to Rosina for several years , and is beginning to tire of her . |
| 9 | Where notification is given at the first stage , but not in accordance with the procedures laid down for the first stage , you shall not be disentitled to SSP for that day for that reason only . |
| 10 | The Cheltenham company must now decide whether to send Mark Driscoll back to Spain for more strawberries and risk a second confrontation with French growers . |
| 11 | The threat of economic collapse , a government ( Papandreou 's ) which ended in a welter of corruption of the most Balkan variety and a very recent history of dictatorship certainly make Brussels preferable to Athens for many Greeks . |
| 12 | She preferred the hazards of local naval hospitals to leaving her husband and returning to England for each birth , but the strain of pregnancy in hot climates and the diversion of her own children made her willing to billet the older two on their aunt whenever it was convenient . |
| 13 | The Scottish castles of Berwick-on-Tweed and Roxburgh , hitherto only occupied by the English , were now ceded to England for all time coming . |
| 14 | The heiress travels to Florida for some yachting but her sloop is run down and sunk by one of her own commercial schooners ; she is saved but she has lost her memory ; she ends up working on the cutting-tables in her own factory and falls in love with a manager whose previous requests for better conditions she had been happy to ignore . |
| 15 | The Greenlys moved to Clevedon for some time , in which district he made valuable contributions to Pre-Cambrian , Palaeozoic , and Quaternary geology . |
| 16 | Pogo 's family have invited us to go up to Scotland for some salmon fishing in February . |
| 17 | They were now part of the 3rd Division ( composed of the 8th , 9th and 185th infantry Brigades ) , returned to Scotland for more training in amphibious landings , and then moved to Petworth in April 1944 . |
| 18 | and to HCIMA for each area of study completed : copies of c ) and d ) above |
| 19 | ‘ Just imagine him standing by the side of you , with his hands crossed before him in a Miss Mollyish style , his intended bow half a courtsey , his fat arms and legs assisting , as in duty bound ; his side glances at you every ten seconds , while he softly , sweetly and insinuatingly informs you — that he has made the arts his peculiar study for the last eight years , and that he flatters himself , by his unremitting study he has greatly contributed to their improvement ; that he came to Ambleside for that purpose ( 't is a great big lie — he came solely to get a living for himself and family , but he is too proud to acknowledge this ) and hopes that the time has been employed with equal advantage to the arts and to himself . ’ |
| 20 | Jackson will , instead , concentrate upon the international art fairs as his preferred market vehicle and is one of the British dealers travelling to Chicago for this month 's Art Chicago International . |
| 21 | Pop having to return to Burma for another year with the Governor , and finally my going to meet him in Liverpool when he was sent home at the end of that year very sick , never to return to Burma . |
| 22 | Marguerite looked shocked , her eyes turning to Alain for some sort of confirmation , but Jenna was not waiting at all . |
| 23 | I had wanted to return to Scapa for some time , to refresh my memories of that extraordinary and beautiful place and of the strange life I had lived there for nearly three years . |
| 24 | It had been apparent to Hank for some time that , in spite of repeating Grade 12 at school , he was likely to fail his exams again . |
| 25 | Did n't I bind myself to Jordan for that reason ? he thought . |
| 26 | When he was seventeen he returned to China for several months . |
| 27 | As I said earlier , I 'm pleased that you 've come to Girton for this symposium , come away from your normal surroundings in the perhaps stuffy office in some district council to the beauty of the wide open spaces here out in the countryside . |
| 28 | Rose decides to cop out of the trip to Antibes for another week here with Dieter . ’ |
| 29 | The ‘ Fury and the Spitfire has been to an airshow the previous day at Yeovilton , they had then flown to Humberside for another airshow and were on their way home . |
| 30 | The widow 's ivory face , framed in its veil of luxurious black curls , seemed more exquisite than ever and Athelstan said a prayer of thanks to God for such beauty . |