Example sentences of "[adv] for a [adj] [noun sg] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was just big enough for Angalo and Masklin , and big enough for a terrified Gurder with the two of them pulling on his arms . |
| 2 | His thoughts sway constantly between the desire to go on and the desire to settle down for a relaxed evening with a book in the secure knowledge that he wo n't have to go on . |
| 3 | Raimondo , the designer , was frantic ; an oil-rich sheikh was coming in for a private showing with his wives . |
| 4 | If the property has been lived in for a long time with old carpets that have never been shampooed they can exude quite pungent odours . |
| 5 | LIGHT opera buffs in Londonderry are in for a musical feast with the return this year of the Derry Festival of Light Opera . |
| 6 | Helen , with the baby only two weeks away , was very large indeed , but not too large for me to get my arms around her , and we stood there in the middle of the flagged floor clasped together for a long time with neither of us saying much . |
| 7 | Maxwell , 33 , who has debts of £406.5 million , arrived promptly for a 20-minute interview with a job counsellor at Didcot , Oxon . |
| 8 | TAKE OFF FOR A LONG WEEKEND WITH THE COMPLIMENTS OF CITROËN |
| 9 | ‘ Are you heading off for a dirty weekend with the managing director ? ’ |
| 10 | After some years in theatrical revue and improvisational comedy in the Second City troupe in Chicago , he gained wide fame when he teamed up for a double act with Elaine May from 1957 to 1961 , before becoming a successful Broadway director . |
| 11 | FORMER Northern Ireland international star Ian Stewart is being lined up for a dramatic comeback with Glentoran . |
| 12 | Mr Archer had left her four years ago for a married man with a beard who lived , people said , in Shepherds Bush . |
| 13 | There was scope here for a young lad with ability . |
| 14 | Owen campaigned long and hard for a new building with more space and supervised the move to the present Natural History Museum in the 1880s ( chapter 8 ) . |
| 15 | It 's been kept on there for a second week with good houses and rave reviews from Time Out , What 's On and Spare Rib . |
| 16 | The two researchers do not recommend introducing pigs into existing woodland , but favour planting new areas specifically for a sylvopastoral system with pigs or planting trees on an outdoor range that is already in use . |