Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There seemed no hope now , nothing to go for except a curiously marked pocket which fitted two finger tips . |
| 2 | because there 's nothing to go for . |
| 3 | The drawback is the cost of insisting that everyone goes for the same type of equipment . |
| 4 | Why is it everyone goes for the most difficult car parking spot ? |
| 5 | You presumptuous monkey , she told him , there 's nothing to wait for , I 'm not going to marry you . |
| 6 | Life , as John recalls it , was happy if hard , with not much time left over for fun after the daily toil was complete and certainly nothing to spare for luxuries . |
| 7 | Imagine my amazement when , on my first day in the new set-up , I found that everyone fought for attention by dramatizing every event . |
| 8 | Their recent blockbusting Belfast 1991 production at the Group Theatre left everyone clamouring for more . |
| 9 | For crossing the border into Iran , he had a code ( ’ I am coming for Mustafa ’ ) , but no-one asked for it ; and so they landed in Tehran . |
| 10 | " My little boy has nothing to wear for the cold weather . " |
| 11 | ‘ But now Miss Kyte must leave you , or she will have nothing to wear for the occasion . ’ |
| 12 | Everyone stands for the general salute — they may be civilian guests , but they have studied the programme avidly and have learnt what to do . |
| 13 | But I 'd just like everyone to know for Daddy 's sake that he had nothing to do with it . |
| 14 | Nothing signifies for him , yet he seizes on details with a toneless precision , almost pedantry : when Raskolnikov calls him a gambler he says he is actually a card-sharper . |
| 15 | What I 'm trying to say is , everyone joins for their own different reasons , you ca n't generalise that . |
| 16 | ‘ Now everyone looks for ways to solve problems . |
| 17 | Everyone looks for different types of friends at different ages . |
| 18 | That 's what everyone applying for that job will pitch . |
| 19 | As Brown observes : ‘ 'What does he do ? ’ remains the most illuminating question to ask about someone met for the first time . ’ |
| 20 | She did have a job with the BBC and someone cared for the child in the day . |
| 21 | ‘ Has someone arranged for a wheelchair ? ’ |
| 22 | The darker humour associated with ED 209 , which does indeed look quite large and threatening at first ( and not at all like a model only one foot ( 30cm ) high , which it is ) is typified when it , in error , riddles a young executive with machine-gun bullets on its first official presentation and the stunned silence is broken by a cry of ‘ Someone send for a paramedic ! ’ |
| 23 | You suppose that if someone lives for ever , he is young , healthy , and strong for ever too . |
| 24 | Here too is an attractive swimming pool , and as a bonus it is possible , on arrival , to make direct arrangements with the caretaker to have someone cook for you each day ( subject to availability ) . |
| 25 | When Cardinal Spellman was presiding , he had such difficulty making himself understood that he had to have someone speak for him . |
| 26 | She was irritated to find that one essential item at least was missing , and made a mental note to have someone telephone for it immediately . |
| 27 | I explained that I 'd found someone to substitute for me — one of the Carter boys was looking for holiday work — but he kept making objections about unqualified staff , mentioning a notorious case a few years earlier when one malcontent teacher wreaked his revenge by teaching a group of teenage Italians that the English greet each other in the street with the phrase ‘ Piss off , wanker . ’ |
| 28 | At this point , someone searching for a simple definition of pragmatics is likely to be exhausted . |
| 29 | Mrs Bennett of West Yorkshire made a similar complaint about Lovejoy : the character ‘ warned an acquaintance that someone looking for him ‘ wants his balls on a fork' . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ If we do n't return them , ’ I say , ‘ Mama 's gon na notice her boys ai n't back , and she 's gon na send someone looking for them . ’ |