Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [verb] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , there are a number of issues , there are three separate issues there 's the C A B issue , which I remember for years trying to get additional staff funded in the North Wiltshire C A B from from this council and we could n't afford it then and we ca n't afford it now . |
| 2 | My data here come from two conversations : one between two men , recorded for the Survey of English Usage , a large corpus-based project on the structure of educated British English , and one between two women — feminists — which I recorded for purposes of comparison . |
| 3 | We might at least be fair about the ways in which we account for pupils ' behaviour . |
| 4 | Nineteenth-century linguistics was mainly interested in the ways in which languages change across the ages ; modern ‘ structural ’ linguistics prefers , in contrast , to concentrate on the ways in which they function for purposes of communication . |
| 5 | Indeed , some of his most effective imagery in The Four Quartets was based on the underground , which he patronized for reasons of speed , economy , and no doubt of experiencing the frisson of imagining himself consigned to perdition . |
| 6 | He used the complete gamut of his voice , from a growl like a dog warning its master that it has a sore foot to a high , exalted monotone which he kept for perorations ; and when he was using the words of an Old Testament lament , Isaiah or Zephaniah , to make a piteous effect , he had been known to put his head back and yowl like a tom-cat . |
| 7 | His favourite places to be were the chestnut leaf table and the top of the mahogany tallboy under the landing window on which he lay for hours , staring at the peaks and plateaux of the moor . |
| 8 | Which he uses for parties rather than as a restaurant . |
| 9 | Judging them by the standard which he used for men , in a society where their roles were totally different , he naturally did not think much of them . |
| 10 | But there is already much evidence that the market is prepared to pay for services in a way quite different from that in which it pays for products . |
| 11 | I tell you what I do for jeans , I get them from car boot sales now ! |
| 12 | He considered her good but unremarkable clothes , and wondered what she did for laughs . |
| 13 | ‘ I knew she went to a certain museum but I did n't know where else she went , nor any of her sources , nor what she paid for things . |
| 14 | Do for yourself what you do for others . |
| 15 | Is is that what you want for children ? |
| 16 | Apart , I mean whatever you get for boys it 's the same , which is in different colours , bow ties and shirts that fit in n it ? |
| 17 | ‘ The companies can charge what they like for drugs , then be as inefficient as they like , and stay under the profit ceiling . |
| 18 | What the world is saying Former Bonn ambassador writes What it means for arms control All to hail , and all to play for WSLeader Comment , page 22 |