Example sentences of "with [adv] a [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He was mad with anger and jealousy , so he locked her in the tower , with only a spinning-wheel for company .
2 This meant having to walk through the room on your own with only a torch for comfort .
3 Less than a year later he was embarked on a career which would take him from the industrial grime of Taibach into films and on to the West End with hardly a pause for breath .
4 But she knew at once why I had asked and went on with hardly a break for punctuation , ‘ Well , love , what 's with you ?
5 We even got the better of the 6th at last , with almost a tap-in for birdie .
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