Example sentences of "[num] for [art] [noun sg] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 To begin with I made a rough drawing and then began to place the colours using the nearest equivalent values from a set of 36 Polychromos Pastels : blue violet , No. 137 , lemon , No. 107 and night green , No. 155 , for the mass colouring of the plant ; an African violet , rose carmine , No. 124 , light blue , No. 147 , and blue violet , No. 137 again for the silk scarf ; orange yellow , No. 109 and orange light , No. 113 for the vase and so on , until I had an abstract pattern of colour distilled from the still life subject .
2 The vote on Hinchliffe 's Bill two weeks ago produced a vote of 188 for the Bill and only one against .
3 … bloody man is in the fast-lane ; comes off at junction 7 for a year or so here , and then he 'll be off and away at junction 8 , on to his chief 's job somewhere else … and look at him !
4 So do the four role plays then all come back here at twenty past six for a debrief and then we 'll call it a day .
5 The watch chimed three for the hour and then three for three-quarters .
6 As a rough guideline , if you are not running sub 2:40 for the marathon or below 1:30 for the half , you do n't need them .
7 Yeah , two for a month and then two for a
8 No , two for the money as well !
9 A follow-up study showed that very few of them ever had any higher ambition for using the money than buying a house or two for the family and perhaps a shop or pub .
10 But perfectionist Noureddine Morceli felt his two all-comers ' marks — 3:50.70 for the mile as well as 3:34.73 for the 1,500m en route — were no consolation for just missing out on Eamonn Coghlan 's world mile record .
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