Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [vb past] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was quite different , however , when through parental death or disaster a grandchild went for a time to be brought up by grandparents . |
| 2 | Travel — Holidays On The Move : How a tenderfoot fell for a cowboy On a blazing saddle , Angela Humphery treks 100 miles through the Sierra Nevada |
| 3 | ‘ Subliminal ’ advertising , which was most publicly ‘ exposed ’ in Vance Packard 's The Hidden Persuaders , is advertising that is supposed to work below the threshold of consciousness : a message flashed for a fraction of a second on a cinema screen was , it was alleged , able to increase sales of popcorn very significantly , even though no one in the audience could have taken it in — or , indeed , remembered it . |
| 4 | Horrified holiday-makers saw the five-foot reptile clamp its jaws round her leg after she and a pal went for a dip in a national park pool . |
| 5 | And , as she walked innocently along a street to collect holiday snaps before returning to Lancashire , she was cut down by a bullet meant for a soldier . |