Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could n't tell unless I went back to look for spent arrows , which I was n't going to do . |
| 2 | I do not know for certain why I went up there to watch them doing it . |
| 3 | At the heart of the mother 's fury was the fact that the teacher was a self-confessed lesbian — and apparently added insult to injury by assuring the mother : ‘ I do n't go for young girls . |
| 4 | I assure you , I do n't go for scarlet chairs , black carpets and purple and pink curtains , any more than you do . ’ |
| 5 | I do n't care for Big Walks . |
| 6 | I mean I do n't write for therapeutic purposes in the sense that you might imagine , you know , someone in a mental hospital would paint or do pottery or conceivably write in order to relieve the inner tensions . |
| 7 | And I heard the girl saying well I do n't look for smart shoes now . |
| 8 | ‘ I should n't think so for one minute but I do n't know for certain . ’ |
| 9 | I do n't know for sure that Ernest is going to emigrate . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't know for sure . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't know for sure , girlie , but we 'll sort it all out in the end , just see if we do n't . |
| 12 | WHETHER HEROIN is at the root of this unreliability I do n't know for sure , nor am I about to proscribe the freedom — or is that stupidity — of anyone to take whatever substance they choose to take , be it alcohol , tobacco , heroin or carpet cleaner . |
| 13 | Yes , probably , but I do n't know for sure . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't know for sure where she goes , ’ he admitted to Wayne . |
| 15 | ‘ Of course I do n't know for sure . |
| 16 | But I do n't know for sure . ’ |
| 17 | He 's — he 's — well , I do n't know for sure just what he is , but ‘ just a man ’ he sure is n't ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't know for sure . |
| 19 | I do n't know for sure really . |
| 20 | I do n't know for sure , now . |
| 21 | ‘ It was done from my section and I am afraid I did not ask for sufficient permission . |
| 22 | He was just checking that I had n't left for good , was glad that I had n't , and was that real coffee he could smell ? |
| 23 | I mean I normally in the past I 've always gone for experienced keepers because you know I mean they they do n't come to their prime until , I do n't think goalkeepers over twenty six twenty seven onwards . |
| 24 | What Ah do n't know for certain is what happened immediately before that . |
| 25 | The fact that you did n't ask for personal recommendations , it 's not my fault . |
| 26 | Grey you could say they were dark , if you did n't know for definite you could say they were dark trousers . |
| 27 | ‘ You do n't know for sure that this is why the agency was raided . |
| 28 | If you do n't know for sure which type of drive you have check the ribbon cable running into it . |
| 29 | She thought that her father probably now earned more than £100,000 a year , but she did not know for sure because it was nine years since she had last visited him , four years since she had last received a Christmas card from him . |
| 30 | Some women might find him attractive , but she did n't go for loose-limbed , olive-skinned men whose black hair flopped across their foreheads . |