Example sentences of "a [noun sg] and [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes you are waiting for a phonecall and sometimes for a touch . |
| 2 | She left elementary school at fourteen to take a job filling seed packets for five shillings a week ; later she worked for a draper and subsequently for the Co-op , where she joined the union movement of which she was to be a lifelong member . |
| 3 | He certainly liked Alix , and after the demo he took her off for lunch in a pub and then for a walk to his room in King 's , where he showed her his pots and his paintings . |
| 4 | And you 'll find for half the pack it 's one a day and then for the second half of the pack it 's two a day . |
| 5 | The reason why I 'm asking the question is that if for example , Richard 's responsible for a form and perhaps for the master of it , that does n't mean to say that you 've actually got the folders in your office . |
| 6 | When they returned to London , Clare worked first for a bank and then for the Yugoslav tourist office before joining the BBC monitoring service at Caversham . |
| 7 | In addition to the time lag while the act was being understood , it can take up to four years for an insolvency practitioner to lodge a report and then for a disqualification order to be made . |
| 8 | A man came into her house asking after a neighbour and then for a glass of water . |
| 9 | As an example of the conditions applied to one new scheme within the Dartmoor area , there were strict guidelines on using approved natural slate for the roofing , for the position of the gable on an outbuilding and even for the lining materials to be used for proposed trout-breeding pools . |