Example sentences of "[pron] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you are at the beck and call of everyone for 14 hours a day for four days and for 8 hours on the fifth day each week you want a short space in which you relax and do just what you like . ’ |
| 2 | Aircraft have transponder systems which locate the aircraft exactly so that everyone for several miles around knows where the aircraft is . |
| 3 | ‘ You 've got all my money and I 've had no dinner meself for three days , ’ I said . |
| 4 | The Gulamalis received their rent for the first three months , then nothing for four months , and were told the computer was broken , the accounts were being moved , the cheque was in the post , and so on . |
| 5 | He heard nothing for four months . |
| 6 | Caving , of course , does nothing for pristine clothing , but the bedraggled and apparent roughnecks seen in the streets of Ingleton after a hard day can afford to ignore the caustic comments of observers : they know a wonderful world their critics will never see . |
| 7 | I have eaten nothing for five days . |
| 8 | Nothing for Irish eyes to about |
| 9 | ‘ We can do nothing for Eastern Europe if we fail among ourselves in a few days ’ time to agree on economic and monetary union , social and environmental policies so that we can complete the European single market on time . ’ |
| 10 | Erm and there were two very profound reasons for that , one was the decline in employment in southern agriculture , the increasing mechanization of agriculture displacing er millions of er agricultural workers er and the second and more important factor was that the southern states provide almost nothing in the way of social provision and certainly nothing for black people er whereas the northern states were much more generous . |
| 11 | In a psychoanalytic study of the Amazons Bernice Schultz Engle points out that according to tradition they ‘ cared nothing for womanly arts , spent ten months of the year farming , pasturing cattle , and especially in training horses . |
| 12 | ‘ We had heard nothing for two weeks , ’ the man said nervously . |
| 13 | And we 've done nothing for two years . ’ |
| 14 | But she could not stand the thought of doing nothing for two months . |
| 15 | In any case it was Shirley who had typed the card and she was in a higher or lower world that cared nothing for such trivia . |
| 16 | After 1911 , women whose husbands were in insured employment received a maternity benefit of 30/ rising to £2 after World War I , which was completely absorbed by the cost of an attendant , leaving nothing for extra food and necessities for the mother and baby . |
| 17 | " I can do nothing for that boy . " |
| 18 | Julia felt nothing for that child , she did n't like her , she did n't hate her , I mean she , she did n't she just felt nothing cos that 's precisely what she told me , that 's her words , not mine , you know and I find then , that , she should n't be a childminder |
| 19 | Two good pieces of gear had encouraged me to make the move , but once started there was nothing for 15 feet . |
| 20 | Nature cares nothing for human definitions , after all , as Sprague de Camp points out . |
| 21 | Unless we care nothing for human freedom and are impervious to human suffering , denunciation seems an implausible general justification for a system which deliberately inflicts punishment on people . |
| 22 | We have a single-minded policy for British industrial success , but the Opposition have a feeble-minded policy which would achieve nothing for British industry . |
| 23 | Shareholders , who received a total dividend payout for 1991 of 3.75p per share , will receive nothing for last year . |
| 24 | In despair , I did nothing for another week . |
| 25 | And by now it was all or nothing for both teams … |
| 26 | I have to warn Professor that there 's more than one party can play that game and if he thinks that it is sensible to run the affairs of this council on deliberate obstructionism on the basis that if you go on long enough you can wear people down then I think it 's unfortunate , it 's bad for this council bad for the people we serve , it does frankly nothing for local government and I ca n't blame central government if it loses patience So I recognise at the end of the day that erm Mr has had troubles with some of his erm er newcomers he obviously needs to re-establish some control over his group . |
| 27 | Some people feel that the herd instinct does nothing for American tourists , and I feel the same about American athletes . |
| 28 | Once home — and although she had eaten nothing for several hours — Annette found that she could not face the thought of a meal , even though her husband offered to prepare one for her . |
| 29 | David Damiani said nothing for several seconds after finishing his narrative but he opened up a battered suitcase and produced from it his old pale brown British Palestine passport and opened the document on page six . |
| 30 | Inhabitants of Pripyat , the town nearest to the reactor , were told nothing for 36 hours , and not tested for signs of radiation sickness until much later . |