Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if you leave a light bulb on for a year , it 'll cost you more than leaving the fan heater on for an hour . |
| 2 | ‘ That was the FRG from Soltau — they 've cleared most of the tasks from last night , less a Chieftain power pack change that 's in hand and one badly bogged tank — they 're having to find a route in for a second armoured recovery vehicle , and , of course , the last Challenger pack change — how are the lads doing on those packs that came in this morning ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I went to the restaurant and put the money down for a large brandy . |
| 4 | Russell said , " Before you leave , put money down for a mescal . " |
| 5 | Van Cleef was cast opposite Eastwood in For A Few Dollars More ( 1965 ) and The Good , The Bad and The Ugly ( 1966 ) and immediately became a major star and a poster pin-up . |
| 6 | It 's not no y you using a you put a boiler in for a purpose , is to heat your water up in n it ? |
| 7 | This is in a twelve hour so for a daily flow we 've This was a surveying period about twenty percent for to these for a full day . |
| 8 | Because we knew that the headmaster of the Scuola Medie Inferiori , where I was now in my last year , was not in a position to punish us if we did not appear for lessons on demonstration days , many of us took part only for a short time and then went home . |
| 9 | My wife and I saved over a number of years to get enough money together for a decent Land Rover . |
| 10 | You put your guitar down for a second , and just as you turn away there 's a horrible discordant ker-draanngg ! , accompanied , if you 're unlucky , by the even more expensive noise of your headstock suddenly leaving the band to embark on a solo career . |
| 11 | Just take an odd sock , put your hand inside and pull the toe in for a mouth , stick paper shapes on for eyes and nose . |
| 12 | Indeed , there is little point in paying out good money from hard-earned income merely for a name . |
| 13 | For sure , Disneyhood wo n't be challenging Swans in the heavyweight ring just yet , but they frequently flourish a muscular grip on proceedings , ultimately putting their collective foot down for a finale of ‘ Sight Return ’ , intimidating in its volume and velocity . |
| 14 | ‘ As soon as you get round the corner , put your foot down for a couple of blocks . |
| 15 | She stopped and put her case down for a moment to try and collect herself ; her hands were trembling uncontrollably from the weight . |
| 16 | Yeah Can I just flick the light on for a second ? |
| 17 | turned our day upside down for a lark . |
| 18 | He was n't going to come charging back , forcing her to remember things she had worked long and hard to forget , turning her entire world upside down for a second time . |
| 19 | Once seed heads/leaves change colour remove and hang upside down for a while ensuring the tips preserve too . |
| 20 | Two-dimensional stop-motion animation of flat pictures — such as the cels used in cartoons — is a topic complex enough for a separate book . |
| 21 | All about Keswick he had noticed gangs of men building the giant reaches of drystone walls enclosing even the highest fell-land , the better to take advantage of grain prices in the war ; gangs of men working the woods , as charcoal-burners , swill-makers , coppice-workers , plain woodmen ; and , as here , men in the high mines — men spread all over the landscape , bondmen of industry , all living out near their workplace , turf huts and teepees scattered abroad , excluded from society throughout the week of their work and let into its comforts and pleasure only for a brief Saturday night escape . |
| 22 | Cook breast side down for a quarter of the cooking time . |
| 23 | Well it 's the wrong pattern , up side down for a start , with the other piece of |
| 24 | She had hoped , as women do , that living together for a time would break down his coldness . |
| 25 | Central Office tried to keep the local parties alive , for the party truce was only renewed for a few months at a time and parliament was prolonged beyond its five-year term only for a few months at a time too . |
| 26 | ‘ Did you hear about the Irishman who took his car in for a service ? |
| 27 | They then worked on the script together for a few months before joining Peckinpah in England , where he was busy with pre-production . |
| 28 | you know , and erm , our Kim , er , she , she goes to bloody extreme then , she 's picked a wardrobe , one wardrobe and a set of drawers , should of been a thousand pound and that bloke at Aston where she got her bed from , which she paid twelve hundred pound just for a bedhead |
| 29 | And er , I know they want over a hundred pound just for a caravan for a week do n't they ? |
| 30 | There was a certain reserve in Josie 's eyes that said Yeah , okay , let's leave the dead-walking issue to one side just for a moment . |