Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] for a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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1 | Union officer DEBORAH LEON , 32 , of Guisborough , Cleveland , perished heading for a month 's trekking holiday . |
2 | He began working for a master 's degree , studying the language of medieval petitions in the Public Record Office . |
3 | To her annoyance Oliver and Cobalt appeared settled for an afternoon 's drinking . |
4 | When the pass came and I had arranged for a fortnight 's holiday I travelled to the Pacific coast in a day coach : overnight to Calgary , and on for another 24 hours through the glorious panorama of the Rockies to Burrard Inlet , English Bay and Stanley Park , Vancouver . |
5 | Yorkshireman Martin Sterne , from Ripon , had come for a week 's golfing holiday with three friends , bringing their own golf professional with them from England . |
6 | Instead , he had to settle for a chemist 's shop , and though he still tried to behave like a doctor , it did n't work . |
7 | John Mumford had been a curate in the Church of England with a significant ministry and had gone for a year 's sabbatical to California . |