Example sentences of "[is] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ God , Nurse , ’ Ted exclaimed virtuously , ‘ There 's nothing for a hot-blooded sinner like me to do when he sees you coming , except close his eyes and pray for continence . ’ |
| 2 | There 's nothing for it but to clamber , wheezing and bursting of heart , up the steep steps ( 300 and more ) of one of the deepest shafts of the Underground to air and freedom . |
| 3 | There 's nothing for me to do . |
| 4 | ‘ Sarn-Major tells me there 's nothing for Memoranda this morning , so officers can fall out . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It 's nothing for you to snigger at . ’ |
| 6 | There 's nothing for you to worry about . ’ |
| 7 | There 's nothing for it now but to get back as fast as we can the way we 've come . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I think it is very important to encourage younger women to see that it is possible to combine a career with having a family , that you do n't miss out on your children — my son wakes up every Saturday so excited that it 's the weekend , not because he does n't have a lovely time during the week , but because there 's nothing for him quite like his parents . ’ |
| 9 | The cover price is about £5 less , quite often we sell many , many more — but it 's nothing for anybody to get too hysterical about , ’ she adds . |
| 10 | ‘ That 's nothing for them to smile about , ’ I said , quite shocked at their callousness . |
| 11 | There 's nothing for you to fear , |
| 12 | There 's nothing for me to do . |
| 13 | There 's nothing for him to do , is there ? |
| 14 | If you do n't get it , there 's nothing for me to add . |
| 15 | There 's nothing for it . |
| 16 | There 's nothing for you here , she 'd say , nothing here that you ca n't come back and buy . |
| 17 | ‘ No , not exactly , but there 's nothing for you to do . |
| 18 | An but the National Health for his er , he got medical treatment for himself , but there 's nothing for his family , or his children , they had to pay the Doctor . |
| 19 | ‘ And if we 're to outwit these giants , there 's nothing for it but for me to call up the Draoicht Suan . |
| 20 | ‘ There 's nothing for it when you reach the Point of No Return — except to come back . ’ |
| 21 | There 's nothing for me here , she told herself . |
| 22 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 23 | There are jobs if you want to be self-employed or work for commission but there 's nothing for someone like me |
| 24 | If that bit can , you know , that 's fixed there 's nothing for the unless the tape just slides and sits |
| 25 | There 's nothing for you to know |
| 26 | Well there 's nothing for them |
| 27 | Self-preservation , replies Kate the British Committee librarian feebly , I ca n't afford a breakdown , this is me for the moment , there 's nothing I can do about it . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | There is nothing for me to add ’ . |
| 30 | The circulation of air round a depression usually has ‘ fronts ’ or areas of rain associated with it , and when birds , which navigate by being able to see the night sky , meet with a barrier of rain and bad visibility then there is nothing for it but to drop down to the nearest land and wait until conditions improve . |