Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] for a [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having selected your water and turned up for a day 's fishing you then have to decide where the fish will be on the day in question . |
| 2 | Looking at the paraphernalia attached to the subject wired up for a night 's recording , one might legitimately ask whether anybody could reasonably be expected to feel natural , and get to sleep in their usual way . |
| 3 | PUPILS at a Middlesbrough school welcomed the Bishop of Whitby into their classrooms when he called in for a day 's visit . |
| 4 | Southend 's players flew off for a week 's break in Spain after a 2-1 win at Halifax which put them five points clear at the top of the Fourth Division . |
| 5 | Corporal Ryan , the Irish Corporal , went off for a week 's leave in Marseilles and , for an unknown reason , killed himself with a hunting rifle in a hotel in the Old port . |
| 6 | If ever a house cried out for a woman 's hand , thought the lady dramatically , this was it ! |