Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [pron] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I devised this one for a sewing box with a 50mm deep lid . |
| 2 | I think you should like , forget that one for a while , because that |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We have n't done this one for a long time have we ? |
| 5 | There , James Miller took charge of the rostrum and managed to sell ninety-eight lots for a total of £913,280 ( $1.4 million ) , with another eighty-six lots failing to attract sufficient bids . |
| 6 | Yes , we 'll encourage people to stand on their own two feet , but we 'll also seek to aid those who for a variety of reasons need a bit of extra help . |
| 7 | He reached out and touched the feet , holding each one for a moment in his hand . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |