Example sentences of "[adj] [be] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd say when you go to this afternoon er ring the doorbell and say er just get handed a crash helmet and say this is for coming after . |
| 2 | So all you need to do is remember that table which is the same , the same as when you , this is for adding adding or subtracting , and the same table for multiplying or dividing , yeah ? |
| 3 | When we did our table this is for adding and taking away erm that 's a positive number and that 's a negative number , okay ? |
| 4 | And then there was a there was a coal fired copper int he corner , and er this was for washing , for boiling your clothes . |
| 5 | And you say in in in this class , this is when you first went to school they had a sandpit , this was for playing in ? |
| 6 | These are for attaching to the erm , tabs . |
| 7 | CCG 's first contract back in 1981 was for catering services for Shell on board the Stadrill . |
| 8 | ‘ What possible reason would that be for disliking you ? |
| 9 | Many of those were for breaking into solicitors ' offices . |
| 10 | Had couches on three sides ; the fourth was for serving . |
| 11 | The first is for working parents , explaining the tax rules that apply when childcare is organised and paid for either by the parents themselves or their employers . |
| 12 | The highest was for measuring an angle of 30- , 72 per cent of the lowest band , 83 per cent of the middle and 90 per cent of the top band of pupils giving the correct answer . |
| 13 | ( One was for hitting a ball out of a cart rut ; its head was no bigger than a soup spoon . ) |
| 14 | ‘ The first was for saving you from a fate worse than death with Doreen — but what was the second reason ? ’ |
| 15 | She said , that 's for getting caught . |
| 16 | ‘ That 's for despising your own life , fool , ’ he said calmly , ‘ Learn to kill like a reasoning man when you must , not like a woman crazed with spite . ’ |
| 17 | That 's for loading containers ? |
| 18 | And that 's for collecting erm words so that when they do the new dictionary all those words that people use and they do |
| 19 | No , that 's for building up lumps of cash . |
| 20 | ‘ And that 's for deserting me , you bastard ! ’ |
| 21 | That 's for watching too much |
| 22 | That 's for turning on and off radiators . |
| 23 | And then we 're going to use a very nice cream erm called moisture balance and that 's a dermatological product and , and that 's for keeping the skin nice and soft , and keeping the wrinkles at bay . |
| 24 | Oops oops hello Jess all these blown up things all round the house no no no no no Charlotte do n't hit the dog , that 's it you cuddle Jessie darling in your chair in your chair go on move I do n't know why she wants to play with that that 's for crawling around with you do n't need to crawl any more Charlotte . |
| 25 | That 's for doing your washing oh you , washing , what bloody you 'll . |
| 26 | That 's for doing . |
| 27 | No afterwards no , when I 've done it I go and do something and then I think oh yeah that 's for doing that . |
| 28 | ‘ And that 's for carrying tales . ’ |
| 29 | Right that 's for measuring angles so we could measure these angles before we s before we start on the money |
| 30 | That 's for carving the chicken |