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 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | There was no one else there save for a hidden organist who presently began to thunder an untuneful hymn . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Save for a few naval battles , the war had never reached the Old World . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Very little of interest on the technical front , save for a few more bent shaft models . |
| 23 | So now , save for a few interesting mounds in the field , there is no visible evidence of its existence . |
| 24 | The counters and display cabinets were empty , save for a few of the distinctive green and gold Confiserie Vassoir tins . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | A whole kingdom , a whole community and all Christian people , save for a few exceptions , might be put under such a sentence . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | There are no easy chairs , save for a single wooden rocking chair ; no cushions , save for three ornamental ones in a corner . |
| 29 | The barn was stark and without adornment , save for a single crucifix in the tiny chapel . |
| 30 | Distinctive guitar riffs and Ian Telfer 's racy fiddle runs distinguish the powerful , literate songs — all their own , save for a punk-folk thrashing of Pete Seeger 's politically correct tour of Welsh mining communities , pit closures giving a metaphorical edge to the accusing refrain ‘ who killed the miners ? ’ . |