Example sentences of "save for a [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 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | JOB loss fears are forcing millions of consumers to save for a rainy day rather than borrow , it was revealed yesterday . |
10 | JOB loss fears are forcing millions of consumers to save for a rainy day rather than borrow , it was revealed yesterday . |
11 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | There was no one else there save for a hidden organist who presently began to thunder an untuneful hymn . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | Save for a few naval battles , the war had never reached the Old World . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | Very little of interest on the technical front , save for a few more bent shaft models . |
24 | So now , save for a few interesting mounds in the field , there is no visible evidence of its existence . |
25 | The counters and display cabinets were empty , save for a few of the distinctive green and gold Confiserie Vassoir tins . |
26 | ‘ Spoken like a true woman , ’ said Dr Neil , staring at the board , empty save for a few pieces clustered round a pair of kings in one corner . |
27 | A whole kingdom , a whole community and all Christian people , save for a few exceptions , might be put under such a sentence . |
28 | There was only one thing for it , and that was to sever a connection that — save for a seven-year stint with Somerset in the 70s — goes back to 1949 . |
29 | There are no easy chairs , save for a single wooden rocking chair ; no cushions , save for three ornamental ones in a corner . |
30 | The barn was stark and without adornment , save for a single crucifix in the tiny chapel . |