Example sentences of "[pron] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing for Irish eyes to about |
| 2 | In a psychoanalytic study of the Amazons Bernice Schultz Engle points out that according to tradition they ‘ cared nothing for womanly arts , spent ten months of the year farming , pasturing cattle , and especially in training horses . |
| 3 | Nature cares nothing for human definitions , after all , as Sprague de Camp points out . |
| 4 | Some people feel that the herd instinct does nothing for American tourists , and I feel the same about American athletes . |
| 5 | They will give me next to nothing for valuable objects . |
| 6 | Other jobs and dignities , including the leadership of the House , the chairmanship of the party , the conduct of Central African affairs , the oversight of European negotiations , the first Secretaryship of State , and even the Deputy Premiership , were to be added unto me for varying periods in the years that followed ; and each time Macmillan went abroad-notably during his Eastern tour in 1958 and his African trip in 1960-I was automatically invited to act as head of the government . |
| 7 | I 've been wanting you to kiss me for absolute ages . ’ |
| 8 | If she 's not polishing the auld bits and pieces , she 's naggin' me for new curtains ! ’ |
| 9 | No , I had decided that whatever I washoping to do , I was going to do on my own so if anyone was going to be proud of me they were going to be proud of me for legitimate reasons . |
| 10 | ‘ So if you do n't want anyone thinking you might be with me for personal reasons , why bother ? ’ |
| 11 | Anyway , I 'd been very busy the day before and Doreen had irritated me for other reasons . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought you left me for other women . ’ |
| 13 | I felt he was vying with me for proprietary rights over Jean-Claude . |
| 14 | He had the impertinence to berate me for knee-jerk reactions on behalf of the Government when he opposes absolutely everything that the Government do , however sensible it obviously is . |
| 15 | Indeed , the EEC , in anticipation of its enlargement , had also begun to consider how it might accommodate the remaining EFTA states , all of whom for varying reasons could not consider joining the EEC , or were precluded from doing so . |
| 16 | And both have been designed to enable you to hold them for long periods of time . |
| 17 | But who can tell the damage we do to our writing voices when we roughly silence them for long stretches ? |
| 18 | In the afternoons , my servant , Tabby , took them for long walks on the moors behind the house . |
| 19 | Though infrequent , there are certainly enough of them for geological purposes . |
| 20 | Operational planners viewed L Detachment as a parachute force pure and simple , which should be available to them for short-term aims . |
| 21 | ‘ I joined them for selfish reasons , ’ he admits . |
| 22 | For instance in general , it is not possible for most goods to trade present amounts of them for future amounts nor is it possible to make such contracts conditional on some outside events like the weather . |
| 23 | The interpretative work of field staff , particularly the procedures by which they graft meaning onto the behaviour of polluters for the purpose of categorizing them for future decisions about enforcement , is , then , a central theme . |
| 24 | However , parameters for them for individual writers could be extracted from an initial training phase for a script recognition system . |
| 25 | I could n't even manage the children — friends took them for odd days . |
| 26 | But Mum knew them for crafty rogues and she had n't forgotten the coal . |
| 27 | Rather than modify anything to do with the external events that trigger your guilt you might decide to go for option 2 and identify the thoughts or beliefs that herald your guilt feelings and examine them for possible replacements . |
| 28 | Rather than modify anything to do with the external events that trigger your inadequacy , you might decide to go for option 2 and identify the thoughts or beliefs that herald your feelings of inadequacy and examine them for possible replacements . |
| 29 | Rather than modify anything to do with the external events that trigger your inhibition you might decide to go for option 2 and identify the thoughts or beliefs that herald your inhibition and examine them for possible replacements . |
| 30 | Rather than modify anything to do with the external events that trigger your jealousy you might decide to go for option 2 and identify the thoughts or beliefs that herald your jealousy and examine them for possible replacements . |