Example sentences of "save for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One try resulted in a pregnancy which ended in a miscarriage , but the couple are saving for a second try . |
| 2 | I 've been saving for a long time with Alma |
| 3 | SAVING for a rainy day and paying off debts is now a top priority for families . |
| 4 | This was achieved firstly by avoiding unusual ( e.g. low-frequency ) words , and secondly by adhering to commonly used contexts or patterns of usage ( e.g. ’ … saving for a rainy day … ’ and ’ … free to open , easy to run … ’ ) . |
| 5 | Howard had , after a quick tour of the TARDIS , retired to his office with a brandy bottle he had been saving for a special occasion . |
| 6 | The maximum tax saving for a basic-rate taxpayer is therefore £1,000 a year ( £4,000 * 25% ) . |
| 7 | SMITH 'S GALLERIES Start saving for the Contemporary Art Society Market , the Cash and Carry Art — the Sainsbury's-sponsored event — which returns at the end of the month to Covent Garden . |
| 8 | The thieves took £80 that 73-year-old Peggy Metcalfe had been saving for the past three months . |
| 9 | Her friend , Rosie Fortinbras , always getting lost between the Pinacoteca and the Duomo in Siena , boasted of having kissed her way round all the waiters in the restaurant in the Piazza del Campo , saving for the last , like a favourite soft creamy centre , little Vittorio with the face of a page-boy in the corner of an Adoration of the Magi . |
| 10 | No matter how volatile the economy you seem to have divine protection , whether this is because you have saved for a rainy day or you are just downright lucky . |
| 11 | But there were Schonfeld supporters who came perilously close to arguing that , if Jewish children could not be saved for a particular sector of the faith , they were not worth saving at all . |
| 12 | Now she was smiling , accompanied by a very young Italian who might have been one of the waiters her old school-friend saved for the last . |
| 13 | A good example of this well into the twentieth century is the evidence of the Women 's Co-operative Guild investigation into Maternity during the First World War , which found that pregnant working-class women often saved for the coming confinement by stinting on food , and there is plentiful evidence of similar attitudes earlier . |
| 14 | My interpretation of what is going on at the present day is being saved for the next chapter , but some of the most startling results come from the latest ( and most accurately dated ) deposits . |
| 15 | JOB loss fears are forcing millions of consumers to save for a rainy day rather than borrow , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 16 | JOB loss fears are forcing millions of consumers to save for a rainy day rather than borrow , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 17 | ‘ This is none of my business , but did I just hear you say you were thinking of doing some private nursing to save for an overseas trip ? ’ |
| 18 | It was the point at which her mother usually said , ‘ You are only fourteen , ’ — an undeniable truth which Molly decided to save for the endless discussions on the subject which would be bound to occur in the weeks to come . |
| 19 | Hickman 's early education , apprenticeship , and hospital attendance are unknown save for a surviving fair-copy notebook dated 1816–18 , containing extracts from textbooks and a record of attendance for two weeks at Brookes 's School of Anatomy , London . |
| 20 | She stepped out of it , naked save for a tiny pair of white lace panties so small that they exposed white patches of skin , luminous against her golden tan . |
| 21 | The lounge of the Grand Hotel was almost deserted , save for a tiny man perched on a bar stool , who seemed to spend much of his time muttering into his hand . |
| 22 | He was a tall , thin man of indeterminate age with hairless grey skin and dressed in a long black robe without ornament save for a small silver fork with twisted tines which hung on a piece of string round his neck , and rested on the black breast of the robe . |
| 23 | He shouts ‘ Beats International ! ’ with the kind of enthusiasm most sane people save for a winning goal or a multiple birth , and then he breaks into rhyme . |
| 24 | There was no one else there save for a hidden organist who presently began to thunder an untuneful hymn . |
| 25 | He was shouting at the top of his voice into the microphone but save for a few at the front of the crowd , nobody could hear a word because someone had cut the amplifier cable . |
| 26 | Old photographs , such as those in the Sprott Collection , show wide , uncluttered streets , no traffic save for a few carts and other horse-drawn vehicles and plenty of space for people to stand . |
| 27 | A British walker survived for seven days without food , save for a few prunes she managed to scavenge out of a dustbin , while lost in New Zealand 's rugged Taparua mountain range . |
| 28 | Save for a few naval battles , the war had never reached the Old World . |
| 29 | Yet nobody , save for a few free-market purists , seems to be worrying — least of all the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission , whose office is located next to the finance ministry . |
| 30 | Very little of interest on the technical front , save for a few more bent shaft models . |