Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Andy Dannatt lost the ball in the tackle and from the scrum Edwards sent 18-year-old winger Jason Robinson sidestepping through from 30 yards out for a sparkling try . |
2 | Trying to earn this man 's good opinion was as easy as … as climbing a descending escalator — six steps back for every one forward . |
3 | In one instance , a stock of thousands of BBC props had been sold off this year for £75,000 yet the BBC later spent £1,100 renting just three items back for a few weeks . |
4 | Chief Supt Pauline Clare , 44 , is one of five candidates up for the Merseyside job . |
5 | Manager Christopher Warner , 29 , took one day off for every one he worked . |
6 | A derelict ship turns over on her keel and lies gracefully at rest , but there is only one way up for a Thames barge if she is to maintain her dignity . |
7 | One way out for the Scots was to contemplate a different marriage for their queen . |
8 | Make sure that the ladder you are working on is secure and put up at the correct angle ( 1 metre out for every 4 metres up the wall ) . |
9 | Erm well erm I I normally work four days a week but I 'm not working today because we 're having about twenty people around for a buffet supper tonight so I 'm very busy cooking . |
10 | but still have to four phone in for the same purpose , are you with me ? |
11 | That , that is , that is the way that they were chosen , and two years ago , I think , we put one point two million pounds in for the first seven schemes . |
12 | They held their automatic rifles across their midriffs , four friends out for a day 's sport . |
13 | They had begun to walk through the woods towards the sea ; two lovers out for a stroll , telling each other everything . |