bed and board
Example Sentences
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"I'm so well looked after by folks that I meet along the way," she said, with some offering bed and board to assist in her journey, she told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme.
From BBC • Oct. 25, 2025
In August 2023, Alex Chalk, then Conservative Justice Secretary, scrapped the policy of taking bed and board deductions from all future payouts.
From BBC • Aug. 8, 2025
"A few of the luckier poor people got bed and board in the hospital for life. Selection criteria would have been a mix of material want, local politics, and spiritual merit."
From Science Daily • Dec. 1, 2023
In 1991, after dropping out of high school, Cantu was offered free bed and board by Bill and Jan Miller, a Portland couple who offered help to teenagers in need of support.
From The Guardian • Apr. 6, 2018
The Don is a poodle with his hair cut in the most fantastic Frenchified fashion, and her Ladyship is a cat of the tabby persuasion, who condescends to accept bed and board at Castle Beautiful.
From Born to Wander A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures by Stables, Gordon
