Example sentences of "[indef pn] [to-vb] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | Clockwise from top left : Masha hopes modelling will bring her money ; queues form quickly after rumours of new supplies ; a farmer selling her produce ; Larissa ( left ) , spends her spare time in food queues ; career success for Natalya means she can pay someone to queue for her ; Svetlana is a fashion designer with no materials . |
| 3 | Oh gee , tomorrow right , mum has gone to me the other day oh , there 's this woman at bridge she wants someone to baby-sit for her on Wednesday nights . |
| 4 | He knows you were with me and may have set someone to watch for you . ’ |
| 5 | If you have children under 18 you may be able to appoint someone to care for them after your death ( known as a guardian ) . |
| 6 | A day 's journey with small children , or alternatively getting someone to care for them for the day , is not easy . |
| 7 | In the case of orphan children the position is relatively clear : a child without parents needs someone to care for it . |
| 8 | She instructed me to get someone to act for her . |
| 9 | So lavish there , she 'd none to spare for me ? |
| 10 | It took a kind of genius , Godolphin had once remarked when talking about Bloxham ( he liked to report on the absurdities of the Society , particularly when he was in his cups ) to look so dissipated and have nothing to regret for it . |
| 11 | I 'll persuade everyone to vote for you just get a job with . |
| 12 | now we are down that far , so I did everything so I 've nothing to do for them this morning , just sit there |
| 13 | ‘ The idea I have in view whilst I make the demonstration ’ may be of a particular right-angled triangle with sides of a certain length , but I may , nevertheless , be sure that it holds of all right-angled triangles if , by not mentioning the ways in which it differs from them , I use this one to stand for them all . |
| 14 | Can you give me something to do for it Doctor ? |
| 15 | Something to account for her needing to get into the Workshops , but something that did not give away the Beastline people 's plans to attack Tara ? |
| 16 | ‘ He 's used to us going off for weeks and never getting in touch but he always has something to show for it at the end . |
| 17 | When we took the step we did last May , we did n't desert the Tory Party , we rebelled against it and I for one said that I would go back in the fullness of time , I just hoped I could go back with something to show for it . |
| 18 | As the real FFL costs money , I think the Telegraph one which is basically the same game , but with slightly different rules to set your team up , is the one to follow for us . |
| 19 | Family size is shrinking as mothers no longer need large numbers of children to work either down the mines or in the factories ( the machine would take anybody to work for it at first ) or to ensure that a few would survive ; high infant mortality rates are now becoming a thing of the past . |
| 20 | But if she was marryin' one of her own kind she would n't get anybody to care for her any better than me . |
| 21 | When Chris Lewis replaced Malcolm , ball dominated bat for the first time in the match , with nothing to show for it . |
| 22 | ‘ I persuaded him [ the Millwall manager ] that he had had eight years out of me , and I had nothing to show for it . |
| 23 | THE cracking of Salman Rushdie is the saddest outcome of his two years in hiding : an apparently forced recantation , and nothing to show for it . |
| 24 | And in the forest there was nothing to show for it . |
| 25 | Now when interest charges fall , the person who is buying the house benefits from the reduction in interest charges , but the person who is renting a house in local authority and then in this case nobody , nobody else in Harlow to rent it from , is faced with , not with a decreased monthly rental , but with an ever increasing one because as more and more Council houses are sold the cost of maintaining that there , the superstructure of the town , the cost of maintaining Council houses goes on increasing and so the burden is laid on the tenants and the tenant can find , will find himself that pound for pound increasing his rent while the house owner is decreasing his mortgage charges and at the end of the day the tenant is paying increased rent , increased rate and with nothing to show for it , erm , I 've always been in favour of a sale , of , of property er owner occupiers , but not at the expense of the people who can not afford to be owner occupiers , ah , to my mind , the present housing system is designed to maintain the existing class structure because even with the large discounts that one gets and nobody 's ever yet convinced me that why you should get a discount because you buy a Council house , but if you buy one privately owned you ca n't get a discount and it , there 's , this , this is so utter nonsense , but it is throwing a much heavier burden every time a house is sold on the remaining houses which are for rent , and so you that , although the idea is to make it a classless this society with more and more people owning their own properties the mo the mere fact that the majority of people in the town can not afford to buy even the reduced priced Council house , is an example that the , the system , the class system a division by income still exists . |
| 26 | And often there 's nothing to show for it at the end . |
| 27 | It always feels like an admission of failure to come back from the Continent and have nothing to show for it . |
| 28 | This Project Eden of yours : five years and nothing to show for it . |
| 29 | But after two months and $4000 and still nothing to show for it , he was getting a little hacked off at Condor Television . |
| 30 | Nothing to show for it ! |