Example sentences of "[pron] for [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Natasha sighed audibly and said nothing for so long Charlotte thought she had walked away from the telephone . |
| 2 | I said yeah then I get into trouble with them for not passing estimates to Terry and then there 's an argument . |
| 3 | No he 's keeping them for just fun cars for himself , he 's just got the money to burn over there |
| 4 | Jane Austen has her abbeys too , but she values them for rather different reasons . |
| 5 | With undisguised relish a leading liberal historian embellishes the account left by one populist of what the peasants did with the revolutionary pamphlets distributed : ‘ They tore them up to roll cigarettes — paper was so scarce , they explained ’ — and one may assume they used them for less delicate purposes as well . ’ |
| 6 | When the new system is introduced the caretaking staff will not be amongst those identified as operators and it is intended that these revised hours will assist caretaking staff by freeing them for more appropriate duties . |
| 7 | When pressure was put on them for more radical appointments , invitations were mostly too late to make any significant impact . |
| 8 | ‘ As a matter of fact , I have , but I 'd rather keep them for more important things . |
| 9 | These are moderate to severe pain relievers , but numerous instances were cited in the interviews where GPs had prescribed them for relatively minor ailments , some of which were fictitious , such as headaches , backache and arthritis . |
| 10 | Although the Chinese transformed rhinoceros horn into forms of customary refinement , it seems unlikely that they went to the trouble of removing agglutinated masses of hair from rhinoceros snouts and lavishing such skill on them for purely aesthetic reasons . |
| 11 | He thought that the inhabitants of Chios , who according to tradition had introduced slavery into Greece , deserved the punishment of being themselves enslaved , which Mithridates had inflicted on them for quite different reasons ( fr. 38 Jacoby ) . |
| 12 | It was argued that this was needed to allow the husband to do the field work as quickly as possible and so release him for more off-farm employment . |
| 13 | It need not cost , cost the County Council anything at all , right , the combination and so on , we can do it for relatively low cost , and may get financial support , it 's a , it 's something worth doing to exploit the links that we have with our Embassies and Chambers of Commerce abroad . |
| 14 | We send in negative data on our peers — those who are competing with us for more powerful positions . |
| 15 | Please contact us for further detailed information . |