Example sentences of "[subord] [indef pn] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a massive field in Stanley Park where everyone parks for Everton and Liverpool games . |
| 2 | A bookshop should be a familiar place , somewhere where one goes for the sheer love of books , for the smell and feel of them , for the companionship of others who share the joy of touching , holding , reading and learning . |
| 3 | ‘ Everything 's always so much more complicated and awkward than one bargains for , ’ she said . |
| 4 | This figure , of course , is much higher than one expects for two unrelated spoken languages . |
| 5 | I was wondering how on earth I should endure these hunting days , especially when they all came back and crowed over me about the jolly time they 'd had , and then I thought , by jove , there 's Alexandra Abbott and she does n't hunt and she made me laugh more than anyone has for years . |
| 6 | Elena knew instinctively that by building up a separate cult of herself — in many ways more spurious and grotesque than anything created for her husband — she was laying the foundations for her own take-over in the event of Nicolae 's death . |
| 7 | ‘ To me these three pieces are possibly better than anything written for my instrument . ’ |
| 8 | That is far better than anything achieved for pensioners during the past 11 years . |
| 9 | The best thing to get richer is like , going round car boot sales , like my mum , she 's so funny , dad said she 's a different woman , she 's just like , cos when Phil and I erm , were engaged , we were trying to save up money , so we , oh and like we 'd sell off all our old stuff , so just give me of money , and then , we got these and my mum was pricing everything up , and she 's going , if someone asks for a discount , do n't , just do n't give it to them , she said , everyone 's going round pricing everything up and erm , when they come to you , they just , they just want things for nothing . |
| 10 | You suppose that if someone lives for ever , he is young , healthy , and strong for ever too . |
| 11 | Or again , considering ( 4 ) , there is no fixed length for turns in conversation , and sometimes one participant holds the floor for some time ; yet although we might call a turn of four minutes part of a conversation , we would consider conversation to have ceased if someone talked for an hour and a half . |
| 12 | So you ca n't sound surprised at the line , you know , if somebody calls for Fred Bloggs and you have n't got a clue who he is , do n't sound surprised , because it 's probably this divert train . |
| 13 | That is true , but if somebody applied for planning permission tomorrow or a or a renewal of planning permission , it would be difficult if not impossible to refuse permission for those to be committed . |
| 14 | I 'd laugh if somebody asked for some , what are them lemon bonbons . |
| 15 | Er just make it available , if somebody asks for it , they 'll go and drag somebody up to have a look at you , and they will keep er er they 've made it so they keep an independent arm , but it 's not the major part of their business . |
| 16 | for next year cos if somebody asks for a specific training |
| 17 | There was even a cardboard birthday cake about ten feet across which a couple of girls could leap out of if somebody paid for their time and the hire of a van . |
| 18 | It was among the first buildings in France to be listed as in need of help , even if none came for some fifteen years . |
| 19 | It might seem surprising , then , that Chancellor Kohl should seem to have accepted the French position , until one reflects for a moment on the implications . |
| 20 | If one allows for a surrounding portico , 10 ft wide , the overall dimensions would have been 71 by 69½ ft , giving an area of 4934.5 sq.ft , making it the second largest temple in Britain . |
| 21 | But it was , in real terms , very much less if one allows for rising prices . |
| 22 | It is likely , particularly if one allows for the gaps in the 1474–75 returns , that the period when London secured its massive commercial lead over the rest of the country was the last quarter of the fifteenth and the first quarter of the sixteenth century . |
| 23 | Because the result of what we 're trying to achieve , particularly if one goes for the new settle settlement option , is to squeeze , as we said this morning , a gallon into a pint pot , and it it would be interesting to hear from the County why the Greater York boundary is what it is . |
| 24 | However , if one forgets for a moment the organizational structures of the two parties and considers their policies , one sees a relatively united unionist movement . |
| 25 | If one stops for a piss the rest might catch up and if they do they will either fall straight over him so that you finish with a ball of dogs that will take forever to unwind , or they will take lumps out of him . |
| 26 | But if one looks for Britain 's centre of gravity , it is found to be nearer the first in each pair of choices above . |
| 27 | One finds reassurance in foreign examples if one looks for it : but ought we not to be looking more for stimulus ? |
| 28 | If one looks for the perfect image of a great country seat in the Victorian novel , it is hard to better this one , seen by middle-class eyes which have no place in the picture they present to the reader : |
| 29 | If one pays for a pint of beer , one should get a pint of beer . |
| 30 | Notorious was his initial estimate of reparations to be extracted from Germany — £20 billion — ‘ and if anybody went for forty billions , I should not disbelieve him ’ . |