Example sentences of "this for " in BNC.
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| 1 | For much of its course , the later novel takes all this for granted . |
| 2 | I have been preparing myself for this for the whole of my life , he wrote . |
| 3 | I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges . |
| 4 | Had been dreaming about this for a long time , he wrote . |
| 5 | My concern over this for almost as long as I can remember . |
| 6 | Why I did n't try to do more than this for so many months is an important question which I need to make some attempt to answer . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm going to be doing this for the rest of my life if I 'm not careful , ’ she told me one day . |
| 8 | If you have an architect , surveyor or agent working for you they will do this for you . |
| 9 | When you receive the Grant Approval Notice from the District Borough or City Council , you can contact your builder to arrange a starting date or your advisor , architect , surveyor will do this for you . |
| 10 | You do this for two reasons . |
| 11 | It must be like this for a minister paying his visits . |
| 12 | They might have been like this for three centuries , and could be for three centuries more . |
| 13 | But what was striking about the three-year-old 's behaviour here was that they did this for twenty trials . |
| 14 | They had been fucking like this for a few months , slyly , without letting on to the outside world . |
| 15 | ‘ But the question here is ‘ Is this for real ? ’ |
| 16 | The SDLP 's deputy leader , Seamus Mallon , said : ‘ The question is — is this for the optics or is it for real ? ’ |
| 17 | Social background may not matter much now ( but until they publish the list we can not judge this for ourselves ) , but the 100 per cent increase in party professionals getting on the list and getting elected to Parliament between 1979 and 1987 can not , surely , be just coincidence ? |
| 18 | Read in this way , community policing in Northern Ireland seems designed exclusively to improve relations between the police and Catholics , but it is much wider than this for it is also employed in Protestant t areas like Easton , where the existence of ‘ ordinary crime ’ ensures that the police are keen to improve crime prevention by better relations with the public generally . |
| 19 | Many prefer this for hill safety . |
| 20 | Even so , there can be no facile equation of racist and sexual discrimination , and this for three main reasons which , even as they preclude that equation , emphasize the significance of those points at which race and sexuality interconnect , and the particular importance of Fanon 's work in this respect . |
| 21 | I was interested in all this for the simple reason that as something that takes your fancy passes you , you only get a glimpse . |
| 22 | Or even , Rachel wondered , ‘ You 've got to say this for the old girl , she does keep on trying . ’ |
| 23 | They go now with a much greater knowledge of their customers to manufacturers and say : ‘ We want our products to be made like this for us and we want them to be our products . ’ |
| 24 | By contrast , Marx shows that other systems , working on different assumptions , can exist , and this for him implies that future change to a radically different social system is therefore also possible . |
| 25 | Leila helps translate this for me as she , but not he , understands the colloquialism . |
| 26 | We soon found that some of them were using this for various extra-curricular activities . |
| 27 | What were the implications of this for the process of commercialization ? |
| 28 | I 'm not in this for my health . ’ |
| 29 | I could walk like this for ever . |
| 30 | Do this for each hour of the day and do it separately for activity , lighting , meals , and drinks . |