Example sentences of "[adv] for a [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only Mr Kenneth Baker , secretary of state for education , said promptly , ’ more money and put in successfully for a rise in the science-research budget . |
| 2 | He congratulates himself , however , on auditioning successfully for a part in this Parisian cinema . |
| 3 | Shadow community care minister David Hinchliffe is campaigning vigorously for a change in the law . |
| 4 | It was already beginning to fill up with French businessmen , and Jean-Paul made purposefully for a table in the window . |
| 5 | It is bad enough for a believer in any faith to have the content of his belief infiltrated by alien ideas . |
| 6 | Then I work out much I want to sell each work for : my first painting sold for £25 , a small fortune then for an art student , and enough for a holiday in Italy . |
| 7 | At a time when only the Northumbrians , and then only for a time in the reign of Eadberht ( 737–58 ) , minted coins of pure silver , southern England experienced a decline in the quality of its sceattas . |
| 8 | Among the more satisfied will be Aston Villa whose one one draw with currently Spain 's hottest club er certainly sets them up nicely for a place in the third round of the UEFA Cup . |
| 9 | Instead of a plot of intertwined complication , which would do nicely for a book in which its unravelling was the whole of the matter , you might well find that a plot which consisted of only one major twist or deception would suit you best . |
| 10 | The two legends came together for a race in aid of the charity , Comic Relief . |
| 11 | And we always try to get together for a while in the same room before we play a concert , just to make sure we have a talk and a laugh . |
| 12 | The young couple were now secluded together for a week in a specially decorated apartment . |
| 13 | For anyone who still needs convincing that Craig is first and foremost a guitarist he quotes an incident that happened when the Y-Fronts got back together for a gig in Melbourne , during the time he was with Neighbours . |
| 14 | Stuck together for a lifetime in that bed , drinking cups of coffee , looking at people who were not like themselves in that cautious keep-off way . |
| 15 | The trio were together for a Christmas in Vienna concert in the city hall . |
| 16 | They stood together for a moment in the doorway , linking arms proudly . |
| 17 | In the 1970s the police were often concerned with the need to keep apart two rival groups , each of which had gathered together for a demonstration in the same place and at the same time . |
| 18 | But you expected something better nowadays , especially for a woman in her forties ! |
| 19 | But he will slip away for a holiday in a luxury Spanish villa after the final ceremony . |
| 20 | He was delighted that Hoare planned to get away for a holiday in Switzerland . |
| 21 | Thus for a body in free fall E is a constant of motion , and in the absence of gravitational forces E reduces to , which is the usual SR energy . |
| 22 | Loads of fresh water ; go ashore for a shower in the communal wash house ! |
| 23 | Hendry resumes his bid for another title when he faces Ulsterman Joe Swail tonight for a place in Saturday 's semi-finals . |
| 24 | The horse still searched desperately for a footing in the soft , moving earth of the cliff-side and Maggie felt that every bone in her body was jarred as the flying hoofs found what they sought . |
| 25 | THE GIRL whom doctors feared would never play golf again battled fiercely to-day for a place in the last eight of golf 's Lancome ( Irish ) Ladies ' championship . |
| 26 | I often feel like I could pack up and go home for a holiday in Ireland . |
| 27 | Miss Lee is at Nwanza , in Tanzania , with the Church Mission Society and will come home for a holiday in Britain next year . |
| 28 | She has a miserable time , leaving home for a job in a club , escaping from reform school to hang out with drunken hoodlums and joining up with some soldiers for a bout of petty thieving that culminates in murder , and the film never allows one into the girl 's experience . |
| 29 | Also , portraits of individual children are far more common in the eighteenth century than in the seventeenth , again arguing both for a change in fashionable attitudes , and also , may be , for a greater emotional investment in children by parents . |
| 30 | Staffing standards therefore exceed the 4/73 baseline by a fifth and that should be welcomed so far as it is an attempt to provide favourably for a group in need . |