Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SCARBOROUGH manager Ray McHale completed two key close season signings before jetting off for a week 's break in Greece yesterday . |
| 2 | All the way through school , my mum used to go away for a fortnight 's rest during the summer and I would go and stay in one of the various holiday homes for disabled children . |
| 3 | Having selected your water and turned up for a day 's fishing you then have to decide where the fish will be on the day in question . |
| 4 | Her son and daughter who cared for her were going abroad for a fortnight 's holiday . |
| 5 | If I was a man and I thought the only way to get my jollies was by coughing up for a woman 's veal in a sorrel coulis , I would be suicidal . |
| 6 | Looking at the paraphernalia attached to the subject wired up for a night 's recording , one might legitimately ask whether anybody could reasonably be expected to feel natural , and get to sleep in their usual way . |
| 7 | He did move away for a while er and had er workrooms away from the , from the house and I just ran the , the shop . |
| 8 | Can I just stop there for a minute er er is this the best |
| 9 | Well we 're gon na try get him to go out for a drink er one evening with that tape recorder so we 're gon na record the conversation on the side of that . |
| 10 | I looked hungrily around , drinking in the sights of London : the beaver hats , lined with green velvet , of the wealthy merchants , the shabby caps of the artisans and , above all , the ornate head-dresses covered in clouds of gauze of the court ladies stepping out for a morning 's shopping . |
| 11 | I 've got Lyn who 's due to go back for a month erm end of May for most of er June , upstairs |
| 12 | PUPILS at a Middlesbrough school welcomed the Bishop of Whitby into their classrooms when he called in for a day 's visit . |
| 13 | Southend 's players flew off for a week 's break in Spain after a 2-1 win at Halifax which put them five points clear at the top of the Fourth Division . |
| 14 | shur shur shur shur shur shur shur , and this went on for a week an little teacher , Miss , she called out stop doing that ! |
| 15 | Not as she thought right for a person 's end , |
| 16 | Two thousand people representing 86 teams from all over the world gathered together for a week 's fun , friendship and fraternity . |
| 17 | Corporal Ryan , the Irish Corporal , went off for a week 's leave in Marseilles and , for an unknown reason , killed himself with a hunting rifle in a hotel in the Old port . |
| 18 | ‘ The Bamford Hunt always gathers in the Market Square on Boxing Day and after downing a glass or two of something sustaining , moves off for a day 's sport , watched by the local populace . |
| 19 | If ever a house cried out for a woman 's hand , thought the lady dramatically , this was it ! |
| 20 | Outside Israel , passengers can check in for a rival 's flight later and without so much hassle . |
| 21 | The Inspirals settle down for a night 's kip on the 800 mile drive up to the moonlit coast to Seattle for tomorrow 's gig . |
| 22 | Coventry City .. 3 Grimsby Town ... 0 ( Coventry win 4-3 on agg ) GRIMSBY played for 87 minutes of this Littlewoods Cup tie with 10 men , and their prospects of defending the two-goal lead they brought to Highfield Road disappeared with Tony Rees , who was sent off for a coward 's foul on Greg Downs . |
| 23 | On the Saturday before our departure our group was sent off for a day 's grape picking at Puyloubier , the rest home for injured and retired former legionnaires , in the foothills of Provence , about two hours ' drive from Aubagne . |
| 24 | Oh he might be away for thre , cos I know he had golf at the Belfry this week , and then when he comes back he 's being picked up by a car to take him to the Belfry again , cos we 're entertaining there for a weekend 's golf . |