Example sentences of "[be] for [pers pn] to go " in BNC.
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| 1 | he said to me one day , and I do n't remember the day he said the best thing would be for her to go on casual , then she can keep her thingy thingy . |
| 2 | " It 's just that it 's all very well to talk about his responsibility and all that — nobody thinks how awful it would be for me to go crawling to him wailing , I 'm in tro-uble ? |
| 3 | ‘ What I 'd like would be for him to go back to that first wife of his . ’ |
| 4 | Squigs are unpredictable and in many way the best thing that can happen is for them to go wild once they are near the enemy . |
| 5 | Initially , all that is required of volunteers is for them to go along to a clinic where a small sample of blood is taken . |
| 6 | The ideal solution is for her to go to stay with other members of the family to be cared for in their home , or for a relative to come to take over in your absence . |
| 7 | You are only fifteen , and if your parents will not take responsibility for you , and you will not tell us what you are up at night , the only alternative is for you to go into care . |
| 8 | ‘ The only important thing ’ , he continued , ‘ is for us to go on writing our poems . |
| 9 | Baldwin answered with commendable frankness : what lie wanted , what he thought the King himself wanted , was for him to go , if he had to , as quietly as possible , and thereby to make things easier for his successor . |
| 10 | And he went and told them how necessary it was for him to go to Canada , in the interests of the firm . |
| 11 | Deal or no mysterious deal , now that it had been established that he had not tracked her down all she wanted was for him to go . |
| 12 | Now all she wanted was for him to go , so she could sit down and think it over . |
| 13 | The idea was for me to go on the high-wire sixty feet above ground — on the shoulders of a Czechoslovakian circus performer . |