Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] for a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I went to the restaurant and put the money down for a large brandy . |
| 2 | Van Cleef was cast opposite Eastwood in For A Few Dollars More ( 1965 ) and The Good , The Bad and The Ugly ( 1966 ) and immediately became a major star and a poster pin-up . |
| 3 | This is in a twelve hour so for a daily flow we 've This was a surveying period about twenty percent for to these for a full day . |
| 4 | Because we knew that the headmaster of the Scuola Medie Inferiori , where I was now in my last year , was not in a position to punish us if we did not appear for lessons on demonstration days , many of us took part only for a short time and then went home . |
| 5 | My wife and I saved over a number of years to get enough money together for a decent Land Rover . |
| 6 | He was n't going to come charging back , forcing her to remember things she had worked long and hard to forget , turning her entire world upside down for a second time . |
| 7 | The atmosphere was tense and all realised it was heads down for a full house . |
| 8 | Two-dimensional stop-motion animation of flat pictures — such as the cels used in cartoons — is a topic complex enough for a separate book . |
| 9 | All about Keswick he had noticed gangs of men building the giant reaches of drystone walls enclosing even the highest fell-land , the better to take advantage of grain prices in the war ; gangs of men working the woods , as charcoal-burners , swill-makers , coppice-workers , plain woodmen ; and , as here , men in the high mines — men spread all over the landscape , bondmen of industry , all living out near their workplace , turf huts and teepees scattered abroad , excluded from society throughout the week of their work and let into its comforts and pleasure only for a brief Saturday night escape . |
| 10 | Central Office tried to keep the local parties alive , for the party truce was only renewed for a few months at a time and parliament was prolonged beyond its five-year term only for a few months at a time too . |
| 11 | Eyes down for a full house and a long run . |
| 12 | Eyes down for a full house . |
| 13 | They then worked on the script together for a few months before joining Peckinpah in England , where he was busy with pre-production . |
| 14 | The other residents are mainly visiting academics , often very senior members of their own universities , from many countries , any academic discipline , and are staying in the college usually for a short time . |
| 15 | The world 's No. 1 batsman , according to the ratings , was two days into his 40th year , and had once again set his side up for a further victory to help blot out the misery of 1987–89 . |
| 16 | Sir James pushes the boat out for a double celebration |
| 17 | One of them three months ago for a violent attack . |
| 18 | The duo came to Darlington about 18 months ago for a one-night show , but have not played panto in the North-East before . |
| 19 | There would be opportunities here for a cross-European sharing of expertise built up around bilingual skills . |
| 20 | The booklet would be too big to be given away , but could be available in tourist offices etc for a reasonable price . |
| 21 | Mr Jackson drives me in his car sometimes for a special treat . |
| 22 | The Iraqi air force attempted little in the way of a co-ordinated response to the allied air assault , and it appeared that Saddam Hussein was intent on preserving his aircraft either for a later stage of the campaign or for the duration of the entire war . |
| 23 | She presented three rows of two letters in either the left or right field and asked subjects either for a full report of all six letters or simply to recall a particular pair of letters ( partial report condition ) corresponding to a single column of the display . |
| 24 | By the ninth century the Magyars had settled around the river Dnepr , north of the Crimean Peninsula , having been expelled outwards by that movement of Asian tribes which rolled peoples westwards for a thousand years . |
| 25 | Thanks again for a better magazine . |
| 26 | If Brian [ husband ] was working … maybe I could have put the money away for a rainy day , but in our place … you more or less need it . |
| 27 | As I see it , you get your bills in for a certain amount and you 've got to pay it . |
| 28 | If Baldwin met Parliament , Lloyd George might keep the Conservatives in for a few weeks to humiliate them . |
| 29 | He hired a car and took the boy down for a long weekend at the St. Mellion Golf and Country Club . |
| 30 | BURSCOUGH will put behind them their best victory of the season as they travel to Blackpool Rovers tonight for a Bass North West Counties League clash . |