Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] for a [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clerk stopped for a moment and whispered to Mr Albert , who , realizing that instead of selling a pair of jeans he really had a customer with money to spend , hurried towards Hank . |
| 2 | Blazer offered his workforce a piece of waste ground behind the mattress shed for a pitch and it soon became affectionately known as the ‘ Football Ground ’ . |
| 3 | I believe we should not only be looking at simple traffic calming , I believe we should be looking at er greater use of subsidised school transport and in fact transport called for a report and I gather going on right out . |
| 4 | A new rule published on 31 March in the Federal Register exempts the crops from the long process required for a permit and allows biotechnology companies to carry out experiments with corn , cotton , tomatoes , soybeans , tobacco and potatoes after notifying USDA in a letter and waiting 30 days . |
| 5 | ( The directories are created by the system administrators , who run a UNIX shell script that takes the login name of each student registered for a course and prepares a directory accordingly . ) |
| 6 | From Dent , the street opposite the Sedgwick memorial is taken ; this soon becomes a country lane followed for a mile and a half to Deepdale Methodist Chapel , ignoring a signposted branch to Ingleton after a mile . |
| 7 | The sergeant deliberated for a moment and then spoke in the soft but unmistakable burr of deepest Mummersett . |
| 8 | The GDBA provides all the practical and theoretical training required for a City and Guilds kennel staff examination which is taken after 12 months experience . |
| 9 | The silence held for a while and then she heard a low laugh that seemed to trace itself right down her spine too . |