Example sentences of "[pron] for [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and nothing for Bedlington Disabled |
| 2 | There was nothing for Sophie to say after that and she resigned herself to the prospect of meeting Robert again , but later that morning , while she was working alone in the office , she felt desperately unhappy . |
| 3 | Nothing left at the scene , nothing for Wickham to go on . |
| 4 | But there was nothing for filmmakers to do but plunge on , grab every chance that came their way and hope for the best . |
| 5 | There was almost nothing for Diane to do but move around saying hello , accept a couple of dances , and nod amiably to people that she hardly knew . |
| 6 | Angels posed obligingly in front of my easel and it was nothing for Christ to stand on the river in front of this Mill . |
| 7 | There was nothing for Branson to do now but cut his losses , and trust to a return of the Branson luck . |
| 8 | Coventry were so poor there was nothing for Wright to get excited about . |
| 9 | There was usually literally nothing for clients to do but sit , watch television , or walk about . |
| 10 | I like to ‘ shoot ’ every Whaddon game and it is nothing for Jock to spend a whole weekend analysing , in minute detail , every little aspect of his instruction manual in the hope he can learn to operate the video machine . |
| 11 | There was never any call for inducements because there was really nothing for people to break the law with . |
| 12 | There was nothing for Hussey to do but bow before the wind with as good a grace as he might , profess his resolve to do all that was required of him-at whatever penal cost to himself , his martyred countenance implied — reverently kiss the prince 's hand , and withdraw to his plain , melancholy wife and his two fat manors up-river . |
| 13 | Gail Smith writes ‘ The burden God has given me for Albania took root in 1982 the first time I ever heard mention of the country and people . |
| 14 | He came to me for stuff to forget all that . |
| 15 | He asked me for £100,000 to help him pay legal fees . |
| 16 | Old body disposer Pugh 's nephew Duncan has been begging me for months to let him play and things have got so desperate I have no choice but to take him on . |
| 17 | ‘ Because it suits me for Louis to believe I have problems , and that I 'm trying to forget them in the arms of an attractive young woman I 'm not willing to share . ’ |
| 18 | Because you 've been badgering me for weeks to go to a car boot sale . |
| 19 | ‘ Although , God knows ’ , he said , ‘ the poor Birds ought to have a holiday from me for years to come , for I have been incessantly shooting and my own gun was not the only one that waged war upon them . |
| 20 | The day that battered sundial he offered me for £1,650 finds its way into my garden is the day I wo n't need to work for a living . |
| 21 | I 'll tell you this … three times before he went , Michael asked me for time to go up to London and said he was having problems with his visa . |
| 22 | Yeah , so he said well charge me for wheel balancing then or something no he said , we ca n't do that . |
| 23 | All the more disappointing therefore to learn later that some Seniors members who had blackballed me for Muirfield had now put in an objection to my joining this club too . |
| 24 | So if A sells goods to B who then decides to leave them for A to repair , A is a person who ‘ having sold goods continues or is in possession of the goods , ’ Pacific Motor Auctions v. Motor Credits ( 1965 P.C. ) . |
| 25 | They may , however , ‘ advise their client and go to the bar for them for matters begun . ’ |
| 26 | was going out of this area to the providers of er of capital , for opportunities within this area we can go to London for example be many bankers there who will be being approached by companies within the northern region , north west region asking them for money to support them in their in their ventures . |
| 27 | So I got them for Rob Chewchocks Chewchocks So you did n't get any of these did you ? |
| 28 | Wycliffe put them all back where he had found them for Scales to look at . |
| 29 | You see them for Rome do n't you ? |
| 30 | A few centres might use them for lake paddling , it was thought , but the serious river paddler would never buy them . |