Example sentences of "[adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She competed successfully for a post-doctoral research fellowship at one of the less fashionable women 's colleges . |
| 2 | He congratulates himself , however , on auditioning successfully for a part in this Parisian cinema . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When the Cambodian peace talks in Paris broke down in 1988 , it was Mr Solarz , along with the Australian foreign minister , Gareth Evans , who pushed successfully for an expanded UN role in the transitional peace settlement . |
| 5 | We have pushed successfully for an EC ban on large-scale drift nets that threatened dolphins , and we support the UN resolution calling for a moratorium on their use . |
| 6 | Imagine now that a customer of an individual bank applies successfully for an overdraft . |
| 7 | Local hire is possible for those on shore holidays who can go ‘ there and back ’ , and just wish to potter locally for an hour or two . |
| 8 | Therefore if during this first shopping trip of your preparation phase you want to pop in somewhere for a drink and a snack ( assuming that this is fairly usual for you ) , go ahead and do it . |
| 9 | Let's begin by assuming that your plot actually has somewhere for a garage to stand . |
| 10 | If not , she could try to find somewhere for a cup of tea . |
| 11 | Why do n't you take the car and drive off somewhere for a few days ? |
| 12 | Go away somewhere for a while . |
| 13 | Indeed , after our second stop in Bombay a few passengers gratefully chose the option of being one-armed , one-legged , one-eyed , two-headed beggars rather than having to return to their seatettes and fly somewhere for a few months with their hands on their heads . |
| 14 | Cos the we er did get people contacting the office to say I 've got a lump sum , I 'd like to put it somewhere for a couple of years , and er we always wondered why they 're thinking of a couple of years . |
| 15 | Josie glanced at the old folding travel alarm that she kept open on the makeup table , and said , ‘ I have to go somewhere for a minute . |
| 16 | You never know , might be to make enough money to take you out somewhere for a decent Christmas do . |
| 17 | A significant contemporary manifestation of that belief , and a vivid instance of how ‘ modern ’ sexuality became a surrogate religion , somewhere for an essentially religious notion of integrity to survive in a mutated and displaced form , was at the prosecution for obscenity of D. H. Lawrence 's Lady Chatterley 's Lover ( 1960 ) . |
| 18 | " We in Christian Aid are proud to have been in at the start of this magazine which campaigns relentlessly for a better , fairer , environmentally purer and politically more aware world . |
| 19 | INCREDIBLY for a railway system that has served the nation for more than 150 years there is still a considerable amount of history either still serving or extant . |
| 20 | Following on from this there should be no difficulty in categorising transactions where gift tokens or coupons are exchanged wholly for a product as transactions under the SGSA 1982 ( compare Davies v Customs and Excise Commissioners [ 1975 ] 1 WLR 204 ) . |
| 21 | Great-Uncle Fergus 's love-child , adopted , presumably for a consideration , by the gardener ? |
| 22 | However , I understand it has since been resold to yet another private company , who appear to have resold the lease to the Estates who in turn sold the farmland to local landowners but rented the house to the company , presumably for a much reduced sum . |
| 23 | They may also trade commercially for a period not exceeding 13 weeks , during the course of their ACE employment . |
| 24 | Perhaps it is seeking to increase the audience , or perhaps it was lead astray for a while by the fact that , during the Conservative leadership contest , the exciting politics at Westminster were not in the Chamber . |
| 25 | My lack of means is extreme , granted , and I look bad , skin white , mouth chapped , body apparently even shorter than usual , eye roaming and I daresay a bit fretful , trousers in bad shape , attention astray for a book lying around to pinch or even an old magazine , since I sold a few volumes I should now like to have kept , in exchange for a slug of what turned out to be the world 's nastiest though cheapest whiskey . |
| 26 | Julie eyed him suspiciously for a moment . |
| 27 | I HAVE N'T done too badly for a short-***** , bandy-legged Welshman . |
| 28 | Still — she stood back to view her handiwork with a pleased nod — she had n't done too badly for a total amateur , even if she did say so herself . |
| 29 | Placing her thumb in her mouth , she sucked on it furiously for a few seconds before settling down once more into a deep sleep . |
| 30 | She struggled furiously for a few seconds but her former strength was lost to her . |