Example sentences of "a [noun] for [pron] money " in BNC.
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| 1 | In your road test of the Peugeot 605 SRdt ( 20 February ) you comment that the only car to give it a run for its money is the Citroen XM . |
| 2 | Frothy , frivolous stuff with enough sweetness to give Christmas pud a run for its money . |
| 3 | Given time , Rollerskate Skinny may well mature into the kind of discipline outfit who could give the American noise set a run for its money . |
| 4 | Remember back a few issues ( UX No 363 ) when Gain Technology , the multimedia start-up that used to call itself Cayenne Systems , was talking about giving the IBM/Apple joint venture a run for its money and persuading IBM to adopt its technology ? |
| 5 | If Claris finishes off the program properly , then it 'll certainly give WindowWorks a run for its money . |
| 6 | The mark of a good network is excellent data throughput , and a fast cached local bus IDE card should knock everything else into a cocked hat , even giving that speed demon , SCSI , a run for its money . |
| 7 | From then on , many changed banks , with the sole purpose of giving their previous firm a run for its money . |
| 8 | It 's a subject whose passion for diagrams and abbreviations and formulae can give nuclear physics a run for its money . |
| 9 | If anyone was going to give Mother Teresa a run for her money , they thought , it had better be the president . |
| 10 | ‘ Stroll ’ ( over page ) : giving Madonna a run for her money |
| 11 | Popham Down was a 66–1 outsider for the 1967 Grand National — a decent price for a horse who three years previously had won the Scottish equivalent at Bogside — but his backers did not enjoy much of a run for their money . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't pretend that this will ever be a Labour seat , but at least we can force the opposition to work harder , give them a run for their money , ’ he said . |
| 13 | ‘ I have accepted a challenge laid down by Mr Plumpton of Greycoats School that this school will field a tetrathlon team against his own team , good enough to really give them a run for their money , if not to beat them . |
| 14 | I 'd like to see you give our boys a run for their money . |
| 15 | Even though his first impressions have not been positive he is prepared to give the new laws a run for their money . |
| 16 | But Derek , 33 , was quietly confident when they met and vowed : ‘ I 'm determined to give them a run for their money . ’ |
| 17 | He upstaged Eddie Murphy in Trading Places and gave Sean Connery and Harrison Ford a run for their money in Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade . |
| 18 | SPEEDY great gran Iris Blackwell gave two burglars a run for their money — at the age of 75 . |
| 19 | I can still give them a run for their money . |
| 20 | It was an immediate success and already rivals , BBC Radio 3 are being given a run for their money . |
| 21 | At £145 ( + VAT , of course ) it is not badly priced for its power , and gives other packages a run for their money , including its big brother ! |
| 22 | Southend are one off the bottom … but they 've given some of the top teams a run for their money this season … |
| 23 | Some sportsmen connect you viscerally with them when they perform , often those who , like Christie , are not infallible , are not always perfectly behaved , but who give you both a run for your money and a sense that what they 're doing is dramatic and important . |
| 24 | For the Nineties , it 's safe to predict that the nostalgia boom has a few years left to run , that Neneh Cherry , Roland Gift and Terence Trent D'Arby will become as big as they want to be , and that Bobby Brown 's crafty commercialisation of rap , soul and a vast ego will give Wacko a run for his money quite soon . |
| 25 | He would be unlikely to give the Archangel Gabriel a run for his money and he should not be allowed to run to the House of Lords . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ We like to think that the programme is n't in competition with Barry Norman , but we do want to give him a run for his money . ’ |
| 27 | MACAULEY Culkin 's Kevin may be a dab hand with a booby trap but when it comes down to straightforward , grimy-faced scallywaggery , there are a couple of Irish lads in Into The West who could give him a run for his money . |
| 28 | Those who develop ‘ improved ’ transgenic lines want a return for their money . |
| 29 | But even in the Sixties , during her hard-up days as a young Broadway dancer , before she found fame in Rowan and Martin 's Laugh-In , she promised herself she would never , ever rely on a man for her money . |
| 30 | ‘ So you would n't consider marrying a man for his money , then ? |