Sentence examples for as a pub for from inspiring English sources
The inn, which also served as a pub for locals and estate workers, was built to cater for visitors who were well enough off to arrive by stage coach or post chaise and pay 6d for a guidebook without which they had no hope of making sense of the garden, but were not grand enough to be invited to stay in the house.
The Eagle Open Kitchen has anchored the corner of 21st Street and 11th Avenue since 1931, first as a pub for longshoremen seeking cheap drinks and instant company, and since the 1960's as a leather bar for gay men seeking much the same.
"It might not have been used as a pub for 20 years, but it is in good nick, as proved by the fact that it is been occupied and in use" – as the bohemian headquarters of design agency Designersblock, who have leased the space on a peppercorn rent from the museum for the last 10 years.
Eating was also problematic as we couldn't nip into a pub for lunch, instead we had to rely on what we had brought with us (mostly peanut butter and banana bread) and food from shops that don't stock the best selection unless you want to live on crisps.
As the name suggests, this is a pub for scholars (read: crazy study-abroad kids).
He's even built a pub for parties so as not to disturb their future children.
"In north London if I am selling a pub as a development opportunity I might be able to ask £700,000-£1m for something that as a pub I would only be able to get £350,000-£450,000 for," he said.
During her late teens and early twenties, Mulligan worked as a pub barmaid and an errand-runner for Ealing Studios in between acting jobs.
A new government composed of the same old monsters promising to extend the horrors introduced five years ago; tabloid hysteria about "anarchy and violence of the streets of Britain"; a pub squatted for use as some sort of lair for revolutionaries.
As excuses for a pub crawl go, it was a cracker.
The draft version of the primary history curriculum, including teaching eight-year-olds about the heptarchy (the seven kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxons), was mocked by the teachers' unions as training for a pub quiz.
