Example sentences of "bread and [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bread and cheese for chub at Pick Holl and Holme . |
| 2 | When young Thomas Carter returned from his duties about 10.00 , he was given bread and cheese for his lunch , and was Packed off to school with his brother . |
| 3 | I got up as usual at seven o'clock to make Dad his cup of tea and his bread and cheese for dinner . |
| 4 | ‘ The whole of the inmates were rather disorderly on Monday , in consequence of this being Christmas Day and having nothing but bread and cheese for dinner . |
| 5 | William Warden was appointed porter to the infirmary ; the regulations stated that he was to have bread and cheese for breakfast . |
| 6 | You must be hungry , so I have ordered a lunch of bread and cheese for you all . ’ |
| 7 | I found a bottle with some rum left in it , and found some water and some bread and cheese for myself . |
| 8 | At six o'clock there was always bread and milk for supper , and at eight o'clock it was bedtime , but no warm arms cuddled her . |
| 9 | James , Alice and Alfred hurried in guiltily a few minutes later , glaring at each other for being thrust into proximity , the former carrying bread and milk for dinner , and the latter clutching a treasure trove of samphire as a peace offering . |
| 10 | She was told unruly children were placed in solitary confinement and given only bread and water for a week . |
| 11 | Imagine you had been living on bread and water for three years and then someone put a large bowl of cherries on the table in front of you . |
| 12 | But there was no bread and water for her , of course . |
| 13 | William Kirby was ordered to be ‘ confined on bread and water for a week for abusing the Master and Mistress and uttering horrid oaths and imprecations at the directors ’ . |
| 14 | Someone who used bad language , for example , or refused to work , pretended sickness , or climbed over a fence instead of using the official entrance ( or , what is more likely , exit ) was deemed DISORDERLY ; he could be put on bread and water for forty-eight hours and other privileges were stopped . |
| 15 | More serious offences such as being drunk and disorderly or damaging property , labelled him as REFRACTORY , and he could then be locked up in a separate room with bread and water for twenty-four hours . |
| 16 | After that we 're only supposed to have bread and water for three days , while the information moves upwards to our heads . |
| 17 | Richard had already been remarked as the kind of small boy enchanted by small girls and deaf to the ridicule of his peers on the matter ; on this occasion he watched Victoria twist her curls around her fingers in motionless fascination for ten minutes , then followed her for the rest of the afternoon , fetching drinks and finding seats , carrying her favourite blue rabbit when she dropped it and picking out the choicest pieces of bread and butter for her at tea . |
| 18 | And er the bread and butter for their tea had to be cut wafer thin . |
| 19 | These might include the preparation of the bread and wine for Communion or the time of Communion itself . |
| 20 | The second rule is that outlay , both private and public , should be directed by social priorities , putting first things first , the prevention of Want , Disease , Squalor and Ignorance before unessentials — bread and health for all before cake and circuses for anyone . |
| 21 | Shellshock was cocoa , which was served with bread and margarine for breakfast and tea . |