Example sentences of "one for [art] " in BNC.

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1 His brother Gavin frets him , and he has a longing for Gavin 's wife , together with a more urgent one for a teacher at the school , Alison Houston , who could be felt to lead him on a bit but does n't want to have a ‘ relationship ’ with him .
2 If your goal is a college scholarship , the odds are very high that attending one for a few years will lead to a number of scholarship offers from top-notch college tennis programmes in the United States .
3 ‘ This will mean a miserable winter for house owners but a disastrous one for a quarter of a million working people .
4 ‘ The thought of being in one for a week and unconscious for half a day would n't have appealed to me very much .
5 Up until eleven o'clock everything went pretty well , When just as you start thinking to yourself that 's the last one for a while , lo and behold another wagon turns up .
6 Before the gun battle started the Vietnamese youths issued extravagant demands , including one for a flight to Thailand so they could fight communists .
7 And the priest shall offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering ; and the priest shall make atonement for her before the Lord for her unclean discharge .
8 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 .
9 I am particularly taken with one for a charity based in Rusper , Sussex , called ‘ Care for the Wild ’ .
10 People have been counted as spending all of the last year of their lives in residential homes if they had lived in one for a year or more .
11 Taking all types of respondents together their ratings were similar for people who had not been in a residential home at all and those who had been in one for a year or more , while those who had only spent part of the last year of their lives in a residential home were generally felt to have had a worse quality of life : for 39 per cent of them it was rated as poor compared with 27 per cent of the other two groups .
12 A trip to the local agent found they had not got one in stock , but I managed to get one for a P6 car .
13 He reached out and touched the feet , holding each one for a moment in his hand .
14 Unfortunately , between the contract date and its settlement , movements in the relative values of currencies involved might transform a profitable transaction into a loss-making one for a trader .
15 So we had tunics with just two pockets , one for a book and one for a whistle .
16 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 .
17 ‘ Swap one for a cheese and pickle ? ’
18 Ferrets must become used to wearing a muzzle long before they are fitted with one for a day 's ferreting .
19 Now when your audience tells you a day you add one for a Thursday , two for a Friday , and three for a Saturday .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 Bert was full of praise for the quality of craftsmanship on the example which he had when they first came out ( he was one of the six guitarists on the committee involved in the design of Höfner 's ‘ Committee ’ guitar ) , and told us that he had used one for a couple of his hits — Big Beat Boogie and Sorry Robbie …
24 Herman had two copies of her book for her to sign — one for himself and one for a friend .
25 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 .
26 One bounced cheque could ruin your reputation with the shop and will lead to bank charges — probably including one for a letter from the manager .
27 You may need to specify the number of tap holes it has : two for pillar taps , one for a ‘ monobloc ’ .
28 I 'm not one for a lot of late nights because I have to be on form and looking good for work .
29 Perhaps they would feel differently if , instead of an average order of ten or twenty coffins , one of the superstores came up with one for a thousand .
30 These have countersunk screw holes , pointing in different directions — usually two for screws going into the back of the mirror frame , and one for a screw going into the wall .
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