Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then they must find £20,000 or so for a cab . |
| 2 | There is a move by many environmental agencies both in Mexico and elsewhere for a return to traditional forms of agriculture , as they are considered to be better for the environment . |
| 3 | Rigid solids are much harder to get hold of in tension and so for a long time such testing as was done was confined to compression and bending . |
| 4 | Now here takes over , under pressure he is from Chris back inside his own half , taking over is Nicky , blasts that one forward towards Graham he 's trying to hook it out to on this right hand side and that one goes well beyond David and out for a throw-in . |
| 5 | Several people complimented her on the beauty of the surroundings , because it was her picnic and so for a while Wales was her dining-room . |
| 6 | The high forward paddling style is appropriate for a touring boat but not for a WW playboat . |
| 7 | I happened to meet a former girlfriend while out for a constitutional among these perfumed hills and blow me if ; much to her chagrin , I could n't remember ever having slid between the sheets with her . |
| 8 | NEXT time you have a craving for yet another chocolate bar or long for a stream of passionate sexual encounters , be careful you 're not nursing a potential addiction . |
| 9 | He was soon posted to England and then for a short period to Brussels before leaving the Bank in 1975 . |
| 10 | However , fearing that the UN force would legitimize the loss of its territory to Serbia , Croatia also continued to insist that the force should be deployed only on the 560-km front lines and only for a period of six months . |
| 11 | He certainly liked Alix , and after the demo he took her off for lunch in a pub and then for a walk to his room in King 's , where he showed her his pots and his paintings . |
| 12 | We knew it was not true to life but it was a good way to escape our humdrum lives if only for a few hours . |
| 13 | She wished she 'd brought something to do that would take her mind off her anxiety if only for a moment . |
| 14 | Corbett should apply for the purpose not only of marriage but also for a charge under s. 30 of the Sexual Offences Act 1956 . |
| 15 | It might be okay for Nutty and even for a weed like Hoomey with his crass infatuation for the hulking ex-chaser , but for a cool customer like himself it was out of character . |
| 16 | Sometimes you are waiting for a phonecall and sometimes for a touch . |
| 17 | But we only went for half a day at that period and then for a month or so then the troops went away again , we got back into our own school . |
| 18 | She felt his arms tighten around her in a comforting hug and just for a few seconds she allowed herself the luxury of sinking against him , feeling the strength and the warmth of his body next to her skin . |
| 19 | George watched the people rushing about their business and just for a second he wondered what he was doing here . |
| 20 | Wexford had come to talk business and yet for a moment he could not . |
| 21 | But they do , they get paid a lot of money but only for a short period of time . |
| 22 | Erm , well , I assume you mean out of recent Leeds United players ( you ca n't seriously be comparing him with the real greats of football can you ? ) . he could certainly hit it , and sometimes goal-bound ( and quite often into the wall or behind for a goal kick ) . |
| 23 | There are , finding fifty hectares or thereabouts for a development of this kind and characteristic out of the districts ' allocations on the one hand in their geography , you know that has to be broadly speaking within the existing settlement pattern on the other , not possible . |
| 24 | Interest is paid gross to all customers investing £50,000 or more for a fixed term of at least seven days . |
| 25 | Subject to planning permission , it could sensibly have been used for development and perhaps for a number of other purposes … |
| 26 | The ministers , from seven Arab countries , met in Tunis on Thursday night and yesterday for a fresh attempt to resolve the stalemate . |
| 27 | He ruled that damages were due for the effects of surfactants but not for a small presence of phosphates . |
| 28 | Readers Digest A to Z of Sewing Guide , lots of other things as well for a fiver , it cost thirty five quid . |
| 29 | For a circular rod of radius a the form factor F is the same as the moment of area and so for a free-free torsional resonant vibration and for a clamped-free resonance . |
| 30 | but when we 've read those we 've got to look up what else Jesus said , remember a few months ago the passage we read from Luke thirteen and they will come from the East and the West and from the North and the South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , they will come he says from all directions , we work and hold and these two scriptures intention , we 've got ta compare one with the other , then we 'll read also John in that tremendous vision in the book of revelation he would he says what he saw there , in chapter seven verse nine after these things I looked and behold a great multitude which no one could count from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues standing before the throne and before the lamb , clothe in white robes and palm branches were in their hands and they cried out with a loud voice saying salvation to our God who sits on the throne and to the lamb , a handful of people , tiny minority , John says it was a great number , a multitude which no one could count from every nation , from every ethnic group , from every tribe and , and , and , and race on the face of the earth there in God 's heaven how grateful you and I should be , if we are among that number , it 's God 's grace , it 's not that we 've deserved it , it 's not that we have been privileged by some genetic er process to have been born in a so called a nominally Christian country , it is all of God 's grace , it 's not what we have done or what we are , but we have been saved by his grace and just for a few moments this morning , I 'd like us to from this question that was put to Jesus to follow on and if you like get five propositions from it , it sounds complicated but it 's not . |