Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [art] [noun] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But also , and more importantly , the normal upward movement that was for long the solvent for discontent has been arrested . |
| 2 | He was mad with anger and jealousy , so he locked her in the tower , with only a spinning-wheel for company . |
| 3 | This meant having to walk through the room on your own with only a torch for comfort . |
| 4 | With only an usher for company , he showed no outward signs of distress as he said : ‘ I had been in bed for five minutes waiting for my mummy . |
| 5 | He had warned her that she would be on her own , with only the butler for company , until Saturday when he returned . |
| 6 | Above , an awkward shuffle up a short steep wall deposited us on a flat-topped summit of the lesser Drug , with only the choughs for company . |
| 7 | Less than a year later he was embarked on a career which would take him from the industrial grime of Taibach into films and on to the West End with hardly a pause for breath . |
| 8 | But she knew at once why I had asked and went on with hardly a break for punctuation , ‘ Well , love , what 's with you ? |
| 9 | There are some problems ( smoking , nail-biting and so on ) which can be dealt with without the need for regression . |
| 10 | We even got the better of the 6th at last , with almost a tap-in for birdie . |
| 11 | The disruption of world markets in the aftermath of the war , the waves of protectionism and concurrent fall in export sales inevitably affected the Champagne trade as it razed other industries ; 1932 proved disastrous with virtually no buyers for Champagne . |
| 12 | With absolutely no respect for Charity 's privacy , Mandy waltzed over to her wardrobe and began rummaging around in it . |
| 13 | But for now the search for Planet X is futile . |
| 14 | There 's a regular traffic of straw from here to the west country which is mostly pasture-land and needs to order it in from outside the area for animal feed . |
| 15 | But it can place a large burden on operators and travel agents and any increases in the size of the bond are seen as likely to further the pressures for rationalization in the industry . |
| 16 | Since then the demand for cotton has grown and after a trial range , they now produce more cotton than wool and have even added fancy cottons to their range . |
| 17 | Discourse is reciprocal when there is at least a potential for interaction , when the sender can monitor reception and adjust to it — or , to put it another way , where the receiver can influence the development of what is being said . |
| 18 | At least the battle for supremacy was somewhat channelled symbolically into the race for the moon . |
| 19 | We have already identified this as a problem but at least the opportunity for manipulation was constrained by the time it would take to receive the invoice . |
| 20 | It is change , or at least the potential for change , which underpins any consideration of dramatic structure . |