Example sentences of "[pron] or [vb base] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Afterwards — she would not look at me or speak for a long time . |
| 2 | It does n't include the unregistered and unmeasured unemployed — women with men who have to maintain them or claim for them , and those whose dole is exhausted but who are disqualified from supplementary benefit because they live with wage-earners . ) |
| 3 | We can speculate that there is a psychological motive for this switch , with Adele using a change of code to indicate that she is only reporting these words and does not herself " stand behind " them or vouch for their validity . |
| 4 | She said that she woke up one day and did not feel lost or depressed , did not wonder what she was going to do with herself or reach for the phone to try and summon up some company . |
| 5 | The UUUC coalition informed each of the 8 Official Unionist members from the dissolved parliament that he had either to align himself with it or fight for his seat . |
| 6 | The significance of Rookes v. Barnard was that it made it clear that a threat of a breach of contract was unlawful for this purpose but the criticism has been made ( and this indeed was the opinion of the Court of Appeal ) that if intimidation is extended to threats to break contracts ‘ it would overturn or outflank some elementary principles of contract law , ’ notably the doctrine of privity of contract , which holds that one who is not a party to a contract can not found a claim upon it or sue for breach of it . |
| 7 | They can not police the place for themselves or teach for themselves , yet 400 teachers face redundancy this year . |