Example sentences of "[adv] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He congratulates himself , however , on auditioning successfully for a part in this Parisian cinema . |
| 3 | Go away somewhere for a while . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If not , she could try to find somewhere for a cup of tea . |
| 8 | Let's begin by assuming that your plot actually has somewhere for a garage to stand . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | Great-Uncle Fergus 's love-child , adopted , presumably for a consideration , by the gardener ? |
| 12 | They may also trade commercially for a period not exceeding 13 weeks , during the course of their ACE employment . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Julie eyed him suspiciously for a moment . |
| 16 | I rummage furiously for a freebie hotel mini-shampoo bottle with a screw-on lid the size of a marble . |
| 17 | I would have been killing myself laughing if the team were n't battling away so furiously for a winner and the whole place going mad . |
| 18 | With the redundancy I have time to go and search properly for a job . ’ |
| 19 | In this he argued powerfully for a revival of social citizenship and the ‘ developmental state ’ . |
| 20 | The only real kiss is the platonic one between Dustin and McQueen on the cliff top , before McQueen dives into the sea and escapes , swimming surprisingly powerfully for a man of his age and condition . |
| 21 | The headmaster continued gawping dumbly for a second , then without a word he turned on his heel and led the way across the hall . |
| 22 | When d'Argenlieu dispatched himself hastily to Paris a few days after the French elections and before the Haiphong incident , it was to lobby intensively for a policy of firmness ; and his tactic , says Devillers , was simple : to create fear . |
| 23 | It extended a few of its probes , which swung around slowly for a while and then pointed towards the going-up jet . |
| 24 | From the very first , he painted professionally for a living and achieved fame primarily for his paintings of Nelsonian and Roman events . |
| 25 | There are , finding fifty hectares or thereabouts for a development of this kind and characteristic out of the districts ' allocations on the one hand in their geography , you know that has to be broadly speaking within the existing settlement pattern on the other , not possible . |
| 26 | You should continue to walk aerobically for a minimum of 30 minutes each day , four times a week ; and you should continue to use the low fat Walking Diet recipes and adapt them to your own diet . |
| 27 | It 's all right for a man ; men are used to smutty books and vulgar jokes — women do n't go for things like that . ’ |
| 28 | A dwelling unit , nothing more , something that was right for a girl that was alone , right for a girl who lived without a man . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm all right for a couple of minutes . ’ |
| 30 | The wheels would be all right for a couple of days ; then they 'd become ten times worse and they 'd have to come to the smithy . |