Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mary took the five pound salmon from her bag , wrapped in newspaper , ‘ in which case , ’ she continued , ‘ Yanto said you could have this one for a pound , and it 's worth a least two pounds ten , as you know . |
| 2 | I devised this one for a sewing box with a 50mm deep lid . |
| 3 | When Derek Davy and I were trying to solve this one for a book which eventually appeared as Advanced Conversational English , it proved to be an expensive and time-consuming , but eminently worthwhile task . |
| 4 | We have n't done this one for a long time have we ? |
| 5 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
| 6 | I 'm not actually sure what model it is — I think it 's a 335 Dot — but I 've just been out and bought another one for a spare , and luckily enough it feels exactly the same . |
| 7 | She 's another one for a quiet life . |
| 8 | For one reason , space is almost a vacuum , so that molecules erm are few and far between , and one thing about chemistry it is really the science of not particularly molecules but molecules that react with one another , but here once one has got a molecule in space it does n't actually meet another one for a very long time , so even a molecule that is reactive and which may only last for maybe a microsecond in the laboratory , interstellar space it may last for a thousand years . |
| 9 | it was a popular one for a talented and local boy . |
| 10 | ‘ Nice to have a fresh one for a change . ’ |
| 11 | Everybody has a deadline , whether it 's a , a three month one for a quarterly magazine , a daily one for a newspaper , a , a monthly one . |
| 12 | Despite the increasing sophistication of photography , war artists , painters and , occasionally sculptors , have a unique contribution to make and such an appointment is an enviable one for an artist who feels that the contemporary peacetime art scene limits his or her breadth of vision . |
| 13 | Despite the increasing sophistication of photography , war artists , painters and , occasionally sculptors , have a unique contribution to make and such an appointment is an enviable one for an artist who feels that the contemporary peacetime art scene limits his or her breadth of vision . |
| 14 | Once the information is captured in one format it is almost inevitable that it will be the wrong one for a typesetter or publishing company and a whole industry exists to convert both disk and software formats . |
| 15 | The new machine or system must not be very different from the old one for a variety of reasons . |
| 16 | There is no reason why these should not be made in the home provided the design is kept to a simple one for a first attempt . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , between the contract date and its settlement , movements in the relative values of currencies involved might transform a profitable transaction into a loss-making one for a trader . |
| 18 | It is our view that this structure is an appropriate one for a project of this kind , following as it does the dictum that , " if you want something to happen you have to institutionalise it " . |
| 19 | The decision whether or not to come on to the Tour is not an easy one for a young black pro to take . |
| 20 | Small tee shirt in white one for a small child is n't it ? |
| 21 | His brother Gavin frets him , and he has a longing for Gavin 's wife , together with a more urgent one for a teacher at the school , Alison Houston , who could be felt to lead him on a bit but does n't want to have a ‘ relationship ’ with him . |
| 22 | Said he wanted to be the pretty one for a change . |
| 23 | He reached out and touched the feet , holding each one for a moment in his hand . |
| 24 | He stood by the door and called each worker by name , shaking hands with some , inquiring about relatives of others , but thanking each one for a job well done . |
| 25 | I 'd thought about that one for a long time , wondering who Beya and Gabricus were , and had paid little attention to the note in brackets which had been added afterwards : ( Frater mysticus meus . ) |
| 26 | She thought about that one for a second , then decided to give me the benefit of the doubt . |
| 27 | I think you should like , forget that one for a while , because that |
| 28 | Part-ex and all the rest of it , did the deal , negotiated , and said right what we want to do , is Saturday morning , she thinks she 's going to come down and look at a decent second-hand one , and I want you to take the part , take the brand new car off and all the rest of it , and then say take that one for a test drive , which is mine , all taxed up and gassed up and all the rest of it , and we 'll disappear in the moonlight . |
| 29 | Not today ; two pathways , both of soft going , lead to the Falls — the right-hand one for a good , distant view , the left-hand , less comfortable and over risky stones , for a close-up . |
| 30 | The whole day had been a strange one for a young lady like herself who had never been allowed to go out on her own , had been carefully looked after and protected at all times from the impact of the world in which most people lived . |