Example sentences of "[coord] for [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Vivian Salmon has shown , awkwardness in pronunciation , ‘ where the — st suffix of the Thou- form stood in close proximity to consonants whose assimilation was difficult , or would have resulted in syntactic ambiguity ’ , led to a preference for the You form or for one retaining Thou but adding an unstressed do , as in ‘ What didst thou lose ? ’ or ‘ It was ourself thou didst abuse ’ . |
| 2 | The association of the beakers with the gods and the spirit world could support a further idea that their purchasers might drink to their chosen deity either in thanks for a favour granted or for one to come . |
| 3 | Or for something whose name Thérèse did not know . |
| 4 | Not for you or for no-one . |
| 5 | An agreement may be for one song , or for everything a musician writes over a number of years . |
| 6 | Right , so , when you set a standard , is that to one person or for everybody ? |
| 7 | We all succumb to these tempting offers sometimes : if we think we 're getting something cheaper , or for nothing , we 'll buy almost anything ! |
| 8 | She 's much too young for Hamilton — or for anybody else , probably , except her brothers and her dad and her uncles and so on , or so Hamilton speculates ( I can tell ) , when he skirts the camp at dusk . |
| 9 | We 've been very careful not to be seen to be interfering or for anybody to think that we were going to tell groups how they would run their groups , because the groups are fairly autonomous and they pre-existed parish councils er , but a you know this is almost a direct invitation and we could actually respond to this in terms of an invitation and ask other groups if they would be interested in our respon in our going to , to visit them , rather than a surgery where maybe we 'd sit here and nobody would turn up . |
| 10 | I do have venom for bullies , or for anyone who shows contempt for others . ’ |
| 11 | The Saddlery Courses are designed for people wishing to earn a full time living from making and repairing saddlery or for anyone who just wants to supplement their existing income , as they state ‘ whatever you want from this course , either to earn money or to save money , it is designed for you . ’ |
| 12 | Or for anyone with any sense , really . |
| 13 | I lie and ask him to comfort M and D and Minny , and Caroline who must feel so guilty and everyone else , even the ones it would do good to suffer for me ( or for anyone else ) . |
| 14 | It would be unwise for the hon. and learned Gentleman or for anyone else to draw conclusions about what might have been the cause of this accident . |
| 15 | Indeed , it is because it ca n't be a literary point for Joyce or for anyone from Ireland who 's business is words , because language forever figures urgent and personal issues of belonging , of debt , of loss , of freedom and of dependence , because it is and does all this . |
| 16 | There is a huge audience for television programmes like that ; people know that something needs to be done , either for themselves or for someone else . |
| 17 | Do n't be late — anywhere or for anything . |
| 18 | If one is partly responsible already for the general policy of a Church or for anything else , it is better to be more responsible . |
| 19 | The Commission had taken much of its case from the evidence of the BBFC , differing only in proposing that the private exhibition of films on domestic occasions should not be subject to criminal sanction provided that no person under 16 was present and no charge was made for the exhibition or for anything provided in connection with it . |
| 20 | THIS is one of the most important months of the year for your career or for anything that contributes to your well-being . |
| 21 | ‘ I am not going to get this country into a war with anybody for the League of Nations or anybody else or for anything else , ’ Baldwin is recorded as saying . |
| 22 | ‘ He hardly knows what he feels , ’ she said , ‘ for me or for anything . |
| 23 | We are not awarded extra Brownie points in heaven for living a life full of suffering , nor for one which is dull and dreary . |
| 24 | Only by finding evidence to ‘ prove ’ that these particular ‘ spokesmen ’ are in fact ‘ unrepresentative ’ and speak neither for you , nor for anyone but themselves . |
| 25 | For pensioners , the Citizen 's Income will be well above the present pension , and for everyone else it will be about £12.80 a week ( at present prices ) . |
| 26 | He had borrowed the ledger one night and read how a member of the Longford militia came galloping up on a foam-flecked horse to the doors of Carewscourt , yelling that the French and Irish had scattered Lake 's army to the four winds and that they were coming south and for everyone to flee , flee , flee if they valued their lives … . |
| 27 | This is a condition brought about by the combined effect of evolution and civilisation and for everyone it is quite unavoidable . |
| 28 | Hospitals close , trains stop , radar goes on the blink , satellites spin wordlessly in space , and for everyone dialling long distance or local calls , the pips announce that time is finally up . |
| 29 | The twins ’ daddy has paid for you and me , Mr Breakspear , and for everyone else on board this boat , but even with all that money and all this boat , we still might not succeed with them . ’ |
| 30 | If the passengers were encouraged to deal with the hijackers themselves , it would be better for their own self respect and for everyone else . |