Example sentences of "a [noun sg] and [vb base] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHEN JUGGLING YOUR FINANCES AT HOME AND WORK , WHY TOSS A COIN AND HOPE FOR THE BEST ? |
| 2 | The sun , having messed around with all the colours that Keats and Shelly were so big on , decided at last to give the rosy-fingered routine a bit of a miss and go for the full Colditz searchlight . |
| 3 | Sectoral differences suggest that there is a strong positive correlation between the intensity of R&D in a sector and support for the scoreboard . |
| 4 | She 's going to get a job and look for a place of her own . ’ |
| 5 | He would just have to play along for a while and wait for an opportunity . |
| 6 | ‘ If you stay here she 'll probably call for a dozen more rehearsals of that damn kiss — so why do n't we cut out of here for a while and go for a coffee ? |
| 7 | By the middle of the following week , however , she was really missing her trips to the pool and she decided that on Wednesday afternoon , which was one of the afternoons when David was n't at the factory , she would take a chance and go for a swim . |
| 8 | To prevent starvation on more plebeian trains , passengers had to take all their food with them or leap from the train the moment it drew into a station and rush for the buffet . |
| 9 | If you are not sure you can cope , take an oven timer , turn it round to half a minute and wait for the bell to ring . |
| 10 | The fact that Sir William Keith and a handful of others had surreptitiously managed to enter the town could by no means be claimed to be a relief and succour for the besieged . |
| 11 | So , for example , if you go to a supplier and ask for a machine to run Windows quickly , and you end up with an elderly 8086 PC , you 'll be entirely within your rights to ask for your money back . |
| 12 | In Scotland , a survey and plan for the Lothians ( 1966 ) was followed by a similar study for Grangemouth-Falkirk ( 1968 ) ; expansion plans for the Central Borders ( 1968 ) and Tayside ( 1970 ) were followed by a strategy for South-west Scotland ( also 1970 ) and a West-central Scotland Plan ( 1974 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ Then his son-in-law must act as a son and care for the land that 'll one day be his . ’ |