Example sentences of "for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Not for nothing has the shift remained a timeless classic . |
| 32 | Not for nothing did Sue Ellen 's hair flop when she became an alcoholic . |
| 33 | Does it count for nothing that Romania , according to her own claims , has repaid her entire hard currency debt and made future borrowing from the West illegal ? |
| 34 | While the gloss of shareholder perks can be dazzling , remember , you get nothing for nothing . |
| 35 | I have n't been selling snide Rolexes for nothing , you know . ’ |
| 36 | And he added : ‘ It is important to me that the boys know I offered to do it for nothing . ’ |
| 37 | The 22-year-old , who is based in West Germany , is upset that many of his overseas results count for nothing . |
| 38 | These are tiny freedoms , and if a woman enjoys being part of a couple , they should count for nothing . |
| 39 | The workers will have to be part of the success of the sell-offs , which is why advisers like Mr Brennan are proposing that they be given sizeable stakes in companies for nothing — up to 5 per cent or more — with the possibility of them buying more shares at big discounts . |
| 40 | Not for nothing , however , are they called wise . |
| 41 | No one can be quite I happy in an ill-planned house any more than in ill-fitting clothes , and although the ‘ cut' ’ and ‘ ‘ style , ’ are much , they count for nothing in a garment which pinches and annoys the wearer in a hundred ways … |
| 42 | The landlord said that we could have the hall on Sunday evenings to run the club , and we could have it for nothing as he would make his money on increased bar sales . |
| 43 | Young Whizzquid and his City friends can not be expected to toil on Aunt Agatha 's behalf for nothing , and the spread between offer prices and bid — between what she puts in and what she could take out five minutes later — is around 6% . |
| 44 | At these times Jane was assailed by self-doubt ; by fears as to whether their relationship would decline — for nothing human remains static . |
| 45 | He had offered to tell her fortune for nothing if she went there with him . |
| 46 | And as for him going up Back Clough Dale and mithering the folk up there , and all for nothing — well , I reckon you 've lost your brains , my lad , to think of such a thing . |
| 47 | Then you can see if you 've made a fuss for nothing . ’ |
| 48 | ‘ There 's no call to go stirring folk for nothing . |
| 49 | But the show was all for nothing : there were no punters out there , except for a scattering of people , hunched into anoraks , hurrying home to get out of the persistent drizzle . |
| 50 | ‘ Woe to us ! ’ they say , ‘ For nothing like this has happened before . |
| 51 | For nothing done by Hitler in the external sphere during Eden 's time at the Foreign Office aroused any public reaction remotely comparable to that which engulfed Hoare over Abyssinia . |
| 52 | I 'll do it for nothing — just my food and a bed in the attic looking out over the chimney-pots . |
| 53 | With a multitude of clips to his credit , including Michael Jackson 's ‘ Billie Jean ’ and the Human League 's ‘ Do n't You Want Me ’ , the former teaboy and camera assistant gave up his film-making pretensions — and went back to videos , directing Aha 's ‘ Take On Me ’ and Dire Straits ' ‘ Money For Nothing ’ . |
| 54 | When baking a cake , manufacturers of cake-mixes were told , women were acting out symbolically the birth of a child ( not for nothing was the vulgar phrase for pregnancy a ‘ bun in the oven ’ ) . |
| 55 | Not for nothing was she dubbed BB — pronounced Bébé . |
| 56 | It is not called burning bush for nothing : I am tempted by the reputation its seed pods have for giving off a halo of oil vapour on still summer 's evenings . |
| 57 | Why linger here in the sordid dark for nothing ? |
| 58 | Trying to get something for nothing . |
| 59 | If she wanted to give it away for nothing then she would . |
| 60 | ‘ Doos n't thou ever give it away for nothing o'butty , ’ she had said , urgently , in that soft Forest tongue . |