Example sentences of "[indef pn] for a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ God , Nurse , ’ Ted exclaimed virtuously , ‘ There 's nothing for a hot-blooded sinner like me to do when he sees you coming , except close his eyes and pray for continence . ’ |
| 2 | Riven blinked , and realised he had been staring at nothing for a long minute . |
| 3 | We do n't say nothing for a long time . |
| 4 | She said nothing for a long time , then shook her head . |
| 5 | Nothing for a long time like the five hundred . |
| 6 | Never get bored with the fact that you 've been with someone for a long time , it 's a good thing , not a bad thing . |
| 7 | If you would like to nominate someone for a future issue , send the details to at . |
| 8 | This necessity for innate leadership qualities may affect these managers judgement when choosing someone for a supervisory job . |
| 9 | They feel nothing about seriously mutilating someone for a trivial reason . |
| 10 | And they say that 's plenty for a healthy business . |
| 11 | The British have fallen in love with this Mediterranean island because it has everything for a perfect holiday : sunny skies , glorious beaches , bustling resorts , friendly people , fascinating sights and beautiful countryside . |
| 12 | It may prove too hard , something for a future generation ’ . |
| 13 | He was a guy who could be something for a brief period of time and then he vanished like the spirit he was impersonating . |
| 14 | We train to do something for a particular purpose , to develop the performance of specific tasks or skills . |
| 15 | Zoe pointed at the second name ‘ … was just a request for something for an allergic rash . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , single mothers will sit and watch the TV and watch the advertisements which all show either happy couples or one single person doing something for an unseen other : ironing his shirts , organising their mortgage , driving his Audi to visit her . |
| 17 | Small tee shirt in white one for a small child is n't it ? |
| 18 | The Musée Bonn at is an art gallery and an exceedingly good one for a provincial town . |
| 19 | One important caveat to the E. F. Loftus and Burns study is that the test of memory could be considered to be one for a peripheral detail . |
| 20 | The whole day had been a strange one for a young lady like herself who had never been allowed to go out on her own , had been carefully looked after and protected at all times from the impact of the world in which most people lived . |
| 21 | Once he began to recognise the key herbs to use , Chris started to experience success with all kinds of ailments and has developed several recipes , such as the one for a general tonic listed here . |
| 22 | In the Ethiopian revolution no one for a long time knew the fate of Haile Fida , leader of the left-wing Meison group : I only had his death confirmed when the Ethiopian lift-operator in a DC hotel told me he had been in the same cell when Haile was taken out to be shot . |
| 23 | There has n't been one for a long time and that 's all I can say . |
| 24 | I 'd thought about that one for a long time , wondering who Beya and Gabricus were , and had paid little attention to the note in brackets which had been added afterwards : ( Frater mysticus meus . ) |
| 25 | We have n't done this one for a long time have we ? |
| 26 | One for life and one for a selected period . |
| 27 | In the session 1972–73 the expected workload of the Committee as judged in October 1972 consisted of fifteen proposals for full-time or part-time BEd courses , as well as one for a full-time Diploma in Educational Technology and a Further Education certificate . |
| 28 | But one for a serious collector , not a decorator ’ , was one London dealer 's verdict . |
| 29 | This takes you to a very similar dialog box to the one for a new presentation except that it lacks the button for selecting a presentation style . |
| 30 | It had provided the money , and had earmarked it : the local Assembly could not have changed the plans to one for a new school or slaughterhouse . |