Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [noun sg] and for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | With only a slight quickening of their pace , Roderick Random , the eponymous hero of Smollett 's 1739 novel , and his companion caught up with the carrier wagon and for a shilling were taken to the next inn on their journey from Newcastle to London . |
| 2 | She snatched up the fern from the window sill and for a second Blanche expected it to soar through the air and sow its parched soil across the carpet . |
| 3 | She looked across the dance floor and for a moment lost her balance . |
| 4 | Enormous growth in this business occurred through the substitution phase and for a period of some years the business was extremely profitable . |
| 5 | These perceived injustices led the trade union and labour movement to campaign vigorously for an end to the insurance system and for a single universal , Exchequer-funded scheme to cover all forms of primary care . |
| 6 | I heard the shotgun pellets hit the bonnet and the windscreen like hailstones on a tin roof and for a second I wondered if I should punch a hole in the glass like they do in the movies . |
| 7 | Pleas that the character of the North Yorkshire market town of Pickering should not be spoiled by takeaway food shops have been made by town councillors who rejected schemes to convert a dry cleaners into a kebab house and for a pizza takeaway at a music shop . |
| 8 | Writer Brian Clark gave me the persona of a middle-class , middle-aged professional with a wife problem and for a time it became my trademark . |
| 9 | There was a catch in his voice ; he was on a knife edge and for a moment Melissa feared he would break down . |
| 10 | A newly retired further education teacher who had worked for both the Home Office as a prison instructor and for a local authority as a teacher of technical subjects , applied for two part-time jobs . |