Example sentences of "[noun prp] for a [adj] [noun] [conj] " 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 | Just as I had n't minded when asked if I would like to take care of Jeffrey Bernard for a few days while he was in Sydney to promote the play about himself , Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell , which is currently playing here . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The first man , Maui , begged Mafulke for a little fire and she reluctantly gave him one of her fingers . |
| 6 | THE draw for the quarter-finals of the AEWHA Cup has brought together Ipswich ladies and their arch rivals Chelmsford for a local derby that should provide all the excitement and drama the two sets of supporters could wish for . |
| 7 | On 2 recent occasions this group could not agree and Tim said he would approach Michael Taylor for a final decision if the meeting was unresolved . |
| 8 | : 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 . |
| 9 | This , obviously , is the place from which to inspect the western Pyrenees for a first time or , given the summary quality of the prospect , from which to take leave of them before driving north . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It 's flying 500 value-added resellers to Seattle for a three-day course provided they promise to train 50 more . |
| 14 | On 16 March , Coleman was summoned to Washington for a final briefing and to complete his Thomas Leavy documentation . |
| 15 | Before the 1965 Immigration Act , Mirpuri and Bengali families would send their sons to England for a few months or a few years at a time . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ I have known Graham for a long time but there will be no sentiment when he picks the England team . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | My parents once told me that they lived on the Canary Islands for a little while but I do n't think I was born just yet . |
| 21 | Cynics might doubt his commitment to social security , as he introduced himself as the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry ( his previous job ) , but in his usual good-humoured style , Frank Field simply thanked him and said they would recommend him to Downing Street for a new job because of his social security knowledge . |
| 22 | The first was Helen 's return to 6 Patten Road for a ten-day holiday before she began work in London as governess to Horst , the young son of M. and Mme Roman who lived at the Hotel Metropole . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | Still you could always come back to Malia for a little peace and quiet in the local monastery ! |
| 27 | It adopted the Charter of Paris for a New Europe and a Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe ( CFE ) . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In 548 they stayed in the Balkans for a whole year and destroyed many towns and fortresses , including the Byzantine centre of Lychnidus ( Ohrid ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |