Example sentences of "to [noun prp] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He became an interpreter in French and German and in 1899 was posted to Moscow for further language studies and in 1900 to Shanghai , where he served in the Boxer campaign and was mentioned in dispatches . |
| 2 | The debate on the moratorium had to be suspended on June 27 in order to allow Landsbergis and Prunskiene to fly to Moscow for urgent clarification of the Soviet position on Lithuania 's status should the moratorium be declared . |
| 3 | To Madeleine for some |
| 4 | She flew up to Nashville for two weeks ' work and called Dennis from her hotel room exactly eight days after their wedding . |
| 5 | In its first loan to Venezuela for 25 years , the World Bank on June 15 agreed a sum of $755,000,000 , 25 per cent of which would be set aside for debt reduction , the rest for structural programmes and in support of economic reforms . |
| 6 | They may also appeal to Whitehall for more money . |
| 7 | Ned went out by a parallel track , the Caples , so as to get back to Queenstown for New Year festivities . |
| 8 | Main Street looked to Manhattan for clever and not-so-clever ways to finance leveraged buy-outs , or hedge their revenues and balance sheets . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Charles followed his advance band rapidly , and laid siege to Pavia for several months . |
| 11 | And then I went to Hereford for six months and I did er six months of medicine , and that was a long way from home in Essex and er we all sort of er mucked in and er made our own entertainment and cooked for each other and that erm was quite a good time . |
| 12 | Q : So you stayed happily married to Bernard for fifteen years ? |
| 13 | Anna Harland talked to Sarah for ten minutes . |
| 14 | It is of a rock type not common to the immediate area , the nearest appears to be found at Cayton and Cornelian Bays , ten miles distant , and is believed to have been brought to Rudston for religious reasons , since it was there long before the church . |
| 15 | Soon afterwards , Brian , in the middle of his national Service , was sent to Germany for six months . |
| 16 | He returned to Germany for good in 1857 , moving for a time to Berlin to be near Prince and Princess Frederick William of Prussia ( ‘ Fritz ’ and ‘ Vicky ’ ) . |
| 17 | Cos Pam 's son 's going to Germany for four years tomorrow . |
| 18 | Allied troops were put ashore at Salerno and Hitler ordered the disarming of Italian troops and their deportation to Germany for forced labour . |
| 19 | Traditionally we go to Germany for sevens tournaments . |
| 20 | This is as close as I have felt to Cambridgeshire for some considerable time . ’ |
| 21 | KALAMAZOO GOES TO NETHERLANDS FOR FIRST ACQUISITION ON THE CONTINENT |
| 22 | Libby and Eric are going out to Romania for three weeks in July . |
| 23 | Subjectively , Baldwin felt committed to MacDonald for several reasons . |
| 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 | Instead of just , going to Tescos for some groceries or |
| 26 | He it was who inaugurated Continental excursions , for in 1925 he took a dozen boys to Bruges for eight days on an educational visit . |
| 27 | Aid donors , including Japan , France , the USA and ( for the first time ) South Korea , pledged a total of US$4,940 million to Indonesia for fiscal 1992 ( compared with US$4,750 million in 1991 ) , despite human rights concerns raised by the Dili massacre . |
| 28 | This allowed the government to allocate sums of money to LEAs for particular educational purposes , thus reducing the local authorities ' control over how the block grant was spent . |
| 29 | In the first half of 1853 he initiated or sanctioned three responses : " He appealed to Great Britain for support , and took out of the lumber room the forgotten agreement of 1844 " ; he sent an emissary to Constantinople for bilateral talks ; and he began to make plans for fighting . |
| 30 | Jed turned to Creed for solid ground . |