Example sentences of "[noun prp] for a [adj] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have been at ITN for a long time and come from a traditional news background . |
| 2 | I remember I was once experimenting with a gauze — it had been in La Scala for a hundred years and was full of dust . |
| 3 | You never know who might mistake Armstrong for a real taxi and offer me a few quid as a friendly gesture for giving them a lift . |
| 4 | The first man , Maui , begged Mafulke for a little fire and she reluctantly gave him one of her fingers . |
| 5 | : Ma for a few years and recently we 've reassessed the doses and also we 've reassessed the risks so those two things together have caused us to express our concern and to advise the government what to do about it . |
| 6 | I 've known Becky for a long time and I never thought she 'd go public with what is a private afffair … it may in part be naivity … but I think some of it was vengence . |
| 7 | A couple of years ago I was staying in Malham for a few days and decided to set out one morning for Attermire by the old pack lane from Settle to Malham . |
| 8 | The Kiwis struggled after losing half their batsmen for only 44 , including opener John Wright for a second-ball duck and skipper Martin Crowe for 18 . |
| 9 | On 16 March , Coleman was summoned to Washington for a final briefing and to complete his Thomas Leavy documentation . |
| 10 | and any way went down and answer it and I could hear him talking , erm , you remember he bought this aeroplane back from Americ erm from Australia , this one of and it was Australian Air Force one that he had on Australian 's , erm came back and stayed in England for a little while and then he went back to Australia , just killed himself . |
| 11 | One such company took a finance director of a subsidiary out of the business for a whole year , sent him to Harvard for an abbreviated MBA and to work for a merchant bank in the City . |
| 12 | However , I understand that , the other day , an English acrobat 's son came up to Scotland for a few hours and said that the whole thing was non-negotiable . |
| 13 | The Newcastle boss also revealed why he sold goal machine Mick Quinn to Coventry for a cut-price £250,000 and that he had received mail questioning his decision to sell . |
| 14 | Great Britain , for example , has two chambers — the House of Commons and the House of Lords , but the power of the House of Lords is restricted to the possibility of delaying legislation passed by the Commons for a short period and trying to make amendments to bills , if the government is prepared to accept them . |
| 15 | It thus appears most unlikely that Fahreddin Acemi could have held the kadilik of Edirne for a significant period and much more likely that he never held it at all ; and in this respect , in his not holding a kadilik simultaneously with the Muftilik , Fahreddin Acemi seems not only to differ from his predecessors but also to resemble all his successors in the office of Mufti . |
| 16 | In drawing comparisons between the state of credit marketing in the US and her , I am mindful that I have been in the UK for a long time and of that famous Bacon quote , ‘ Time is the greatest innovator ’ . |
| 17 | Still you could always come back to Malia for a little peace and quiet in the local monastery ! |
| 18 | It adopted the Charter of Paris for a New Europe and a Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe ( CFE ) . |
| 19 | Murdock worked at Soho for a short time and then in about 1779 he was sent to Cornwall as the firm 's chief mechanic and agent in all technical matters . |
| 20 | In 548 they stayed in the Balkans for a whole year and destroyed many towns and fortresses , including the Byzantine centre of Lychnidus ( Ohrid ) . |
| 21 | Quality systems have naturally been around within Ciba Geigy for a long time and all aspects of manufacturing on the site have been registered to ISO 9001 since 1987 . |
| 22 | Nancy Ball had only been with Hugo for a few months and it was much longer than that since Harriet had visited him at the office . |
| 23 | She did not see Joe for a few days and then one Friday as she walked past she saw him in the teashop and went in to join him . |
| 24 | I had been in Styal for a few months and I kept putting in for an open prison , but they kept saying no . |
| 25 | William Pennington , a London labourer , allegedly said in December 1689 " God damne King William and Queene Mary for a Dutch Dogg and a Dutch Bitch " , whilst in the summer of that year George Smith , after drinking a pot of ale in an alehouse in Coleman Street , had said " God Damn all the Dutch Men … |
| 26 | Thank God for a fixed set and no stagehands , and the electricians are n't in yet . |
| 27 | DOCTORS treated road victim Bill Healey for a broken nose and then sent him home — failing to notice that he also had a fractured jaw , cheekbone , leg and foot . |
| 28 | He went out with Naomi for a few minutes and then it was my turn for a little chat . |
| 29 | Beautiful white , pastel pink and blue houses nestle in the cliffs and we took the funicular railway down the cliff side to the pretty harbour at Skala for a closer view and a donkey ride back up through the twisting mountain road . |
| 30 | Lee Doherty set up Johnston for a right-wing cross and Gorman ghosted between two Bangor defenders to keep up his record of scoring in every round . |