Example sentences of "something [adj] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SMCC ( not Sun Labs ) is in fact revamping NFS and will be enhancing cache filing and adding multi-threading but it is a generic revision not something specific for its anticipated giant multi-processor Sun Dragon . |
| 2 | She would create something special , something outstanding for her . |
| 3 | Everything will be all right , I am going to cook something light for your meal — an omelette perhaps ? |
| 4 | Examine all the humour you come across — in shops , at work , with children , on the TV — and try to ascertain what it is that makes something funny for you . |
| 5 | But we , cos I 'll have to do it for you so , something interesting for me to do . |
| 6 | ‘ It will be something different for them . ’ |
| 7 | That 's something different for you ai n't it ? |
| 8 | For the first time ever film has become something real for me , and that 's why I go to see it , I want to get right inside it , so that I can really be alive . ’ |
| 9 | Miss Bond had gone out to buy something simple for their lunch . |
| 10 | I 've got something urgent for him . |
| 11 | It would be tragic if , just when we were beginning to see something better for our children and for our nation , the door were to be slammed in our face . |
| 12 | She will have bought Dad another tie , Mum will get something smelly for her bath , Gran will get a scarf and I will get another bookmark . |
| 13 | For example , correctionalists prepared to enter appreciatively into the meaning world of deviants may well come up with something useful for their purposes ( although that , of course , is not at all what Matza had in mind ) . |
| 14 | I like the idea of sentenced persons doing something useful for their fellow citizens rather than mouldering inside a prison . |
| 15 | ‘ He was drunk and on pills and he wanted to do something good for himself . |
| 16 | ‘ I hope there 's something good for my tea . ’ |
| 17 | It 's more like art photography , something good for my soul . |
| 18 | They might have something more for me by now … ’ |
| 19 | They have solved something important for themselves in the turn and turn about of a twosome . |
| 20 | If they can become less blamed , they will then have resolved something important for themselves . |
| 21 | I just wondered whether it was important for you to get it out ; apart from any artistic creation , it did something important for yourself ? |
| 22 | Br. , 1991 , 27 , 821 ) , and believed that there was something important for us there . |
| 23 | ‘ And I must away to my Green Line bus — Lydia will be keeping something hot for me . ’ |
| 24 | I 've got something cool for them to slip into ! ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It must be something difficult for your mother to stay in Abu Dhabi , ’ I said . |
| 26 | ‘ The lure of Kevin Keegan and Newcastle United was too much — and it had to be something big for me to leave London . ’ |
| 27 | So , it 's no good er me looking up in some book Theresa 's dreams if I could decipher it like some kind of code in which every single thing in the laten in the manifest content represented something latent for what we 're trying to then kind of decode as in a code book because er that 's not valid , at least it 's not valid in general terms . |
| 28 | If she wants to work for the organization I 'm sure we 'll find something suitable for her . " |
| 29 | This was something new for me . |
| 30 | There were some weekends when he would phone me up and ask if he could come round because he 'd thought of something new for me to do , and he 'd jump into his car and come all the way just to give me a new inflection on a word ! ’ |