Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [noun pl] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dustin has been meeting with original director Mike Nichols hatching plans for a table-turning sequel which will feature the ageing Hoffman having an affair with his son 's 16-year-old girlfriend . |
| 2 | It had reservations about a proposal from Crewe and Alsager , and in the case of the Berkshire College recognized that the proposed DipHE linked with a BEd proposal undergoing revisions for a 1974 start , and with a BA that had not yet been submitted . |
| 3 | ‘ These will be used for brake-van rides at Llanuwchllyn and will be free for passengers holding tickets for a full journey . |
| 4 | It was my 85th birthday recently and out of the blue , a letter arrived from my daughter containing tickets for a four-day trip to Paris , passes for Euro Disney , and tickets for a cruise down the Seine . |
| 5 | Since Legnani first danced the famous thirty-two fouettës in Swan Lake , it sometimes seems that choreographers lacking ideas for a spectacular finish to a solo , send the dancer spinning faster and faster round the stage , or set them centre stage and make them turn with increasingly difficult poses . |
| 6 | At first the spy thought he had stumbled on something worth investigating : Wordsworth carried a telescope , and Coleridge was surveying the river ( he was in fact making notes for a projected long poem , The Brook ) ; furthermore , Coleridge 's oft-repeated references to ‘ Spy Nosy ’ were assumed by the Home Office spy to be aimed at him personally — he had presumably never heard of Spinoza , the philosopher of the moment . |