Example sentences of "for [indef pn] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joanna Wood , 48A Pimlico Road , SW1 , is one of those shops that sells charming fripperies , the sort of place where you can be sure of finding the very thing for someone who would prefer to buy their own toaster but who would love to be given a Limoges breakfast set or monogrammed shoe-bag . |
| 2 | He looked around for someone who would fill him in on the gossip . |
| 3 | Lay off , and save your preachings for someone who 'll appreciate them . ’ |
| 4 | But a major difficulty remains : SSDs will be reluctant to commit themselves to picking up the bill for several months ' residential rehabilitation for someone who may have arrived in the area the previous week . |
| 5 | So long as I was looking for someone who might want to murder Michael Banks , I was getting nowhere . |
| 6 | The process described is common : women who often suffer from low self-esteem , frustrated creativity or an inability to assert themselves can — subconsciously at least — look for someone who will express confidence , arrogance , purposefulness , ambition and success . |
| 7 | ‘ Employers look for someone who will slot into the office culture , ’ says Shirley Coates , managing director of Bridford Career Management . |
| 8 | We 've been looking for someone who can cope with the 24-hours-a-day rock ‘ n ’ roll lifestyle . |
| 9 | ‘ You 're putting on quite a good display for someone who can hold her drink , ’ she heard him say sarcastically from the doorway . |
| 10 | For someone who can give an object as plain and manageable as a book all the symmetry and neatness of a loosely wrapped food blender , the prospect of getting cumbersome gardening tools into a parcel terrifies me . |
| 11 | My relationship with the director is therefore rather different from most producers ; I am looking not for someone to watch and admire but for someone who can deliver the result . |
| 12 | I just have a lot of respect for someone who can pick up a piece of wood or metal and make music out of it . ’ |
| 13 | Instead , he told him he must live his life his own way , and advised John , when he spoke of having fallen in love with a ‘ straight ’ boy at school , to try to save his love for someone who could return it . |
| 14 | We were always looking for someone who could give us help . |
| 15 | I always regret that as a youth it never occurred to me to ask why they chose Easingwold and how they knew of a vacancy for someone who could combine the saddlery trade with being the landlord of the Jolly Farmers pub . |
| 16 | I mean , all I use I mean , if I was making them for somebody I would use about four or five layers and then I would put a piece of lace of braid or something at the top |
| 17 | And he said , ‘ Do you know , all my life I 've been looking for somebody who could do everything for three pounds a week . ’ |
| 18 | We 're always looking out for somebody who could cause er problems in Wolverhampton and problems generally . |
| 19 | Er er and that they sit two hours doing e and exam you know for somebody who can watch at all . |
| 20 | ONE WOULD not normally think a national awareness day for something which could affect as many as one in three of the population would be necessary . |
| 21 | Even then we would play it a bit too close and find that some unforeseen emergency would send us scrambling around looking for something we could sell to avoid starvation . |
| 22 | ‘ She must have been hoping they 'd ask for something she could give . |
| 23 | How do you know you 're not paying now for something you 'll get later ? ) |
| 24 | Or he may try to trade in that idea for something he might think would be almost as valuable , the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Germany . |
| 25 | He was thumbing through USA Today for the umpteenth time , looking for something he might have missed , when he heard her giggling . |
| 26 | The man who had severed his traditional local ties to live in the impersonal and anonymous city searched for something he could identify with , for new loyalties and attachments . |
| 27 | Not many women reach her years and have as much — for everything he can imagine her wanting he hastens to provide ; and it is bestowed as if she were a young and lovely creature at her first ball , and when he helps her down the stairs or into a taxi — for she is getting frail — he turns her into Gloriana . |
| 28 | On the surface Dana was hard and self-assured , out for everything she could get , but Claudia knew that exterior was n't completely genuine . |
| 29 | and if there 's plant out in the sun for one we can put one in a pot and keep it in the kitchen |
| 30 | My old gran did n't bother with recipes and if anybody asked her for one she 'd say ‘ Oh , I do n't bother wi' them things . |