Example sentences of "[adj] for something [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Garvin was there , Commandant of the Cairo Police and Owen 's nominal superior ; McPhee , Deputy Commandant , earnest , concerned and straightforward — too straightforward by half to be a Cairo policeman and far too straightforward for something like this ; Paul , an aide-de-camp of the Consul-General 's ; and Owen . |
| 2 | Neighbours are desparate for something to be done about the hotters who terrorise their streets |
| 3 | I was talking to Terry Williams ( drums , ex-Man and Rockpile ) about it in Cardiff the other day , because Terry would be great for something like that . |
| 4 | Yet the phenomenon is familiar to us all , particularly when we discover we are responsible for something for which we had blamed others . |
| 5 | For example , a Phantom may only be able to stay airborne for something like an hour and three-quarters , two hours using it 's own fuel but with a tanker there we can keep them topped virtually well , obviously until we run out of fuel and for much , much longer . |
| 6 | Pushing the joystick in the direction of travel results in a low , grubhunting kick , slap it in the opposite direction to give a high lob , and leave it in neutral for something between the two . |
| 7 | The DCSL ( who , interestingly enough , was an active member of the library committee throughout the period of the project ) reports its beginnings in : what was very much a very small group in the school … a certain group of people who were keen for something like this to happen … |
| 8 | The Hancock Half Hours seemed to be finally at an end and both Ken and his public were ready for something in which ‘ Stop messing about ’ would mean something more than an admonition to an actor to concentrate on his script . |