Example sentences of "for the [adj] ride " in BNC.
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| 1 | We paid £16 return per adult ( half-price for children ten and under ) for the three-hour ride and were greeted by the Foreign Legion parachuting out of the sky as we approached their home base of Calvi . |
| 2 | They arranged to come that way again next Sunday and then turned their horses eastwards for the long ride home . |
| 3 | Emerging from the tall , rickety gates separating the yard from the main road , Mungo walked the bicycle across , beside Mr Zamoyski 's shop , before mounting at the crossroads for the long ride . |
| 4 | One of his greatest knocks was the 143 at Port-of-Spain in 1968 — this after he had reached breaking-point in 1966 , only to come back with century after century in the 1967 Tests — but he still found touring the Caribbean a fairly distasteful affair , as revealed in his letter to his wife : ‘ We 're being taken for the biggest ride … the umpiring , the crowd and Charlie … it is downright cheating … |
| 5 | From the bottom , the drivers return to Monte by taxi , and the toboggans by truck , ready for the next ride . |