Example sentences of "[vb past] for something " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | ‘ In the first innings , I waited for something to happen , and it did I was back in the pavilion for a duck ! |
| 32 | Lorca stood for something else — for life and the day-today dynamic of men and women . |
| 33 | Once again Greece stood for something . |
| 34 | Now that Shankly and Stein and many like them have gone , it raises the question of whether McIlvanney 's world of sport , embracing values and heroes who genuinely stood for something , faces inevitable decay in these vainglorious and calculating times . |
| 35 | Now , Freud was n't saying that every time you dream about an umbrella you 're , you 're dreaming some kind of sexual wish , erm , but what he 's saying is that umbrellas and other things that can erm become erect or open out often do represent but you could conceivably have an umbrella dream in which the umbrella , through your private associations , stood for something completely different , it 's quite , it 's quite possible . |