Example sentences of "[adj] an [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many slimmers make this an excuse for not sticking to the diet , but I find it much easier being away from the kitchen and the kettle ! |
| 2 | Crooking an index finger , she summoned a waiter and proceeded to inform him that she had been waiting fully half an hour for her pancakes and that it would not do . |
| 3 | And why was she getting only half an hour for dinner when he next door could have three quarters of an hour ? |
| 4 | You can follow this treatment with a face-pack , or wait half an hour for your skin to settle down and apply your usual moisturiser . |
| 5 | It took half an hour for Rock Hudson and a doctor to pull him from the wreck . |
| 6 | Write briefly how you , as a receptionist , would deal with the situation where guests complain that their room has not been cleaned and they have had to wait over a half an hour for room service . |
| 7 | The drinking-up time is half an hour for people taking meals if the liquor was supplied ancillary to meals . |
| 8 | I got up at six , spent all day cleaning other people 's houses , from 8.30 a.m. until 4.30 , with half an hour for dinner , for £25 . |
| 9 | We used to have an hour and a quarter fro lunch , half an hour for tea , and we used to er have to get the principal 's tea ready and in the midmorning they always had tea made of milk . |
| 10 | this is an initial interview for up to half an hour for which the maximum charge will be £5 . |
| 11 | And course you , other than the half an hour for a meal in the middle of the night er that was it you got no time off at all . |
| 12 | The specimen should be left for at least half an hour for the acetone to evaporate . |
| 13 | It was as if , owing to the punishment I had received , all the close and companionable cells of my brain had been spaced round the frozen world , so that it took half an hour for intelligence to march from one department to the next . |
| 14 | It could take half an hour for a bomb disposal team to get to Royalbion House . |
| 15 | It took about half an hour for the wave riders to travel from Minsterworth to Gloucester . |
| 16 | With only half an ear for Grigoriev 's response , Rostov stared across the room . |
| 17 | She always had half an eye for him ; sometimes I thought she watched him as a tamer does a tiger . |
| 18 | She was too generous an agent for that . |
| 19 | As a consequence of rule 12 an order for costs can not now lead to a taxation other than on a standard basis or indemnity basis . |
| 20 | 233 an applicant for judicial review sought to adduce Parliamentary materials to prove a fact . |
| 21 | And they paid me sixteen and six an hour for the tractor and a mower and myself . |
| 22 | It is quite clear , sir , that on the existing allocations , thirteen years to go , that the figure of nine thousand seven hundred dwellings , if you want to stick by that figure , my view it should be lower because it has too much an assumption for migration in a constrained area , if you want to stick by that figure , the nine thousand seven hundred will be reached without a new settlement , of that I have no doubt whatsoever . |
| 23 | And then in addition there are the thirty one composite motions that regions have agreed since the pre-congress delegates ' meetings and finally an index to the general motions so that 's very much an explanation for the benefit of first-time delegates to congress . |
| 24 | the second anniversary of the preceding general election being reached without an election being called under any of paragraphs ( a ) through ( f ) , provided that : ( i ) in exceptional circumstances , the Federal Executive may postpone such an election for no more than one year by a two-thirds majority of those present and voting ; and ( ii ) this paragraph ( g ) shall not apply if the Leader is a member of the Government . |
| 25 | When this is the case , a trap is to mistake such an event for the completion of the entire change effort ; instead , it represents only the beginning of the change-management process . |
| 26 | Mr Pilkington was delighted and became such an enthusiast for air travel that he went on to make many more business trips by air , some of them as far afield as Australia . |
| 27 | It is doubtful whether it was ever such an issue for Wilkins . |
| 28 | She was beginning to attract attention in dramatic roles but had never been given such an opportunity for anguished emotion , and she rose to it whole-heartedly . |
| 29 | Had we relied on public sector finance , it would have been another century before we had such an opportunity for British industry , with all the infrastructure back-up that will flow from it . |
| 30 | One could identify the political and social attitudes or perspectives , and the social structures or historical events which would have to precede such an incident for it to occur at all . |