Example sentences of "[pron] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I " fackins I commend thee for that ! |
| 2 | Oh Lord who to see that all the world , we thank thee for those who fought and those who laid down their lives in the cause of righteousness and freedom . |
| 3 | That is a great credit to the improved quality of our service , and to the commitment of all our staff , and I pay tribute to everyone for that . |
| 4 | When you are at the beck and call of everyone for 14 hours a day for four days and for 8 hours on the fifth day each week you want a short space in which you relax and do just what you like . ’ |
| 5 | Aircraft have transponder systems which locate the aircraft exactly so that everyone for several miles around knows where the aircraft is . |
| 6 | The other point on that is that the draft matters for the E I P including matter two D have been known to everyone for some considerable time . |
| 7 | The D O E objection has been known to everyone for some considerable time and their statement is quite explicit in what it says in relation to the matter of one D. |
| 8 | ‘ You 've got all my money and I 've had no dinner meself for three days , ’ I said . |
| 9 | At one level , as in all picturings of God 's rule and man 's free will , there is nothing for Porfiry to do ; he just has to sit and wait , which he is good at . |
| 10 | The Gulamalis received their rent for the first three months , then nothing for four months , and were told the computer was broken , the accounts were being moved , the cheque was in the post , and so on . |
| 11 | He heard nothing for four months . |
| 12 | Caving , of course , does nothing for pristine clothing , but the bedraggled and apparent roughnecks seen in the streets of Ingleton after a hard day can afford to ignore the caustic comments of observers : they know a wonderful world their critics will never see . |
| 13 | I have eaten nothing for five days . |
| 14 | His answer , when it came , was vague : he had heard rumours , but knew nothing for certain ; there had been talk of treachery . |
| 15 | Nothing for certain but the dark weather and the bitter cold . |
| 16 | Nothing for Irish eyes to about |
| 17 | ‘ We can do nothing for Eastern Europe if we fail among ourselves in a few days ’ time to agree on economic and monetary union , social and environmental policies so that we can complete the European single market on time . ’ |
| 18 | Erm and there were two very profound reasons for that , one was the decline in employment in southern agriculture , the increasing mechanization of agriculture displacing er millions of er agricultural workers er and the second and more important factor was that the southern states provide almost nothing in the way of social provision and certainly nothing for black people er whereas the northern states were much more generous . |
| 19 | In a psychoanalytic study of the Amazons Bernice Schultz Engle points out that according to tradition they ‘ cared nothing for womanly arts , spent ten months of the year farming , pasturing cattle , and especially in training horses . |
| 20 | And we 've done nothing for two years . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ We had heard nothing for two weeks , ’ the man said nervously . |
| 22 | But she could not stand the thought of doing nothing for two months . |
| 23 | In any case it was Shirley who had typed the card and she was in a higher or lower world that cared nothing for such trivia . |
| 24 | DESPAIRING factory owner Michael Whitehead looked back on 18 years of ‘ bloody hard work ’ last night and said : ‘ I 've got nothing for all my graft . ’ |
| 25 | After 1911 , women whose husbands were in insured employment received a maternity benefit of 30/ rising to £2 after World War I , which was completely absorbed by the cost of an attendant , leaving nothing for extra food and necessities for the mother and baby . |
| 26 | " I can do nothing for that boy . " |
| 27 | And twenty five pounds worth of Marks and Spencer vouchers for nothing for that . |
| 28 | You do n't get nothing for that . |
| 29 | And nobody 's gon na give me nothing for that are they ? |
| 30 | Julia felt nothing for that child , she did n't like her , she did n't hate her , I mean she , she did n't she just felt nothing cos that 's precisely what she told me , that 's her words , not mine , you know and I find then , that , she should n't be a childminder |