Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lancs look to ace Neil for a knockout boost |
| 2 | But Liverpool , desperate to reorganise themselves back into a title-chasing outfit , wanted the smooth-passing Clough for a vital role in midfield . |
| 3 | So this being his last free Wednesday for a while , he had decided to give himself a treat . |
| 4 | The disgust she felt almost paralysed Comfort for a moment , before she started to fumble in her bag for a handkerchief . |
| 5 | When you peel off your fleecy top from your fuchsia thermal underwear , the static electricity is sufficient to heat and light Linlithgow for a week . |
| 6 | Thanks to Outer Surrey for an excellent tea . |
| 7 | An hour on the workbench could make them play quite reasonably , but do n't imagine you 're getting anything like a real Rickenbacker for a bargain price ; they 've got the looks , but that 's about all . |
| 8 | The reply was that he could be seen the following Wednesday for a fee of £45 . |
| 9 | No no , this fat old bird was round the back of Bunrannoch House , when I took wee Alex for a walk . |
| 10 | UNDRO and the UNHCR appealed in early April for a further US$137,630,000 and $42,456,000 respectively , to aid refugees fleeing Iraq . |
| 11 | The Law Society requires newly qualified solicitors to undertake approved CPD for a period of three years on pain of withdrawal of their practising certificate . |
| 12 | John Barker prepares a lightweight Ted for a ride on the messenger . |
| 13 | ‘ An Independent Ulster should look to brave little Israel for a good example of a security policy . ’ |
| 14 | Eila had left her native Finland for a holiday before starting a nursing course . |
| 15 | So far he and his foreign minister , Mr Hans-Dietrich Genscher , have stuck nobly to the view that Germany should remain a member of NATO , with some ( no doubt far fewer ) NATO troops staying on in what is now West Germany and with enough Soviet troops staying on in eastern Germany for a while to make the Russians feel better about it . |
| 16 | I was to work for smelly Perkins for a whole week . |
| 17 | On April 6th the EC 's governments banned imports of livestock and dairy goods from Eastern Europe for a month . |
| 18 | Some 750 Brazilian street children ( believed to number up to 12,000,000 throughout the country ) went to Brasília in late September for a conference , at which they said 624 of their number had been murdered in the past 19 months , many of them by death squads . |
| 19 | The judge , Lord Mayfield , jailed Smyth for a year and told him he was a persistent offender with a bad record . |
| 20 | The party had officially received less than 3 per cent of the votes in the April general election ( see p. 36603 ) , and before the poll Mestiri had turned down a proposal by the ruling RCD for a national coalition . |
| 21 | Andrew partnered 31-year-old Gillian for a game of golf two days after scandal-hit Fergie left Balmoral as a royal outcast.The prince and his pal hit it off right away — emerging as the winning pair against Gillian 's husband Bob and Mandy Cruickshank , daughter of a royal housekeeper . |
| 22 | Sixty five patients with rheumatoid arthritis ( n= 57 ) or osteoarthritis ( n=7 ) and taking NSAIDs for a period of greater than three months ( mean 4.5 ( SD 3.1 ) years ) were recruted from a rheumatology clinic to undergo a screening upper gastrointestinal endoscopy before entry into a therapeutic trial that had been approved by the hospital ethics committee . |
| 23 | Thanks to teachers from Inner Surrey for an excellent tea . |
| 24 | Pereira , considered a close confidant of the President , was dismissed soon after leading a delegation to southern Senegal for a bipartite meeting on border security [ see also below ] . |
| 25 | Gen. Suchinda and other senior military leaders accompanied Chatichai to southern Thailand for a meeting with King Bhumibol Adulyadej . |
| 26 | As part of their preparations for the semi-final against Dublin the Derry squad spent the week-end prior to the game at the Slieve Russell Hotel , Ballyconnell and travelled into neighbouring Fermanagh for a practice match . |
| 27 | Shortly after Mrs King bought her 305 to replace a much-loved Renault 4 , her husband swapped his petrol-engined Mercedes-Benz for a Peugeot 405 turbo-diesel . |
| 28 | 223 Squadron played a full part in this campaign although Hampton left the unit in mid April for a brief rest having flown 70 operational sorties . |
| 29 | Earlier this year , Thorn EMI paid £187m to US-based SBK for a large catalogue of songs , and subsequently also bought a half share in Chrysalis Records in the UK . |
| 30 | If time is of the essence then taking the car to northern France for a couple of nights is an attractive option . |