Example sentences of "[pron] for [pers pn] [to-vb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | If all were clear , undilemmatic and utterly consistent for the members of a society , there would be nothing for them to argue about , and thereby nothing about which to deliberate . |
| 2 | The bottom line was that there was nothing for them to do and those thoroughbred young men were too bright and too vigorous to put up with endless bull . |
| 3 | for example , that if a sporting event ends prematurely because of bad weather , or of attendance falls short of anticipated levels , some or all of the casual labour force can be discharged and workers need not be carried when there is nothing for them to do . |
| 4 | He had to go you see , but I mean er later in my lifetime when we lived in the in the village at I can remember very very well the the er the miners there er going to work and then coming home again , going to work and coming home again , nothing for them to do . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's nothing for them to smile about , ’ I said , quite shocked at their callousness . |
| 6 | Charlie told me it was n't nothing for them to get through twenty nicker poking about in the shops . |
| 7 | One reason could be because all around them are utterly characterless , uniform , boring , and unmemorable buildings — nothing for them to stand and stare at , to wonder at and dream of — as there was in the heyday of the great stations . |
| 8 | There was nothing for him to say . |
| 9 | He pulled the door to behind him — he was reasonably certain there was nothing for him to see in the engine-room anyway — and stooped to examine the three dead men . |
| 10 | But there was nothing for him to see . |
| 11 | It was nothing for him to take the ball off them and stick the knife in it to burst it . ’ |
| 12 | He longed to do some real work that would give him some satisfaction at the end of a day , yet there seemed to be nothing for him to do . |
| 13 | There appeared to be nothing for him to do but make his way back to the Inn on the Point , collect his own belongings and return to London . |
| 14 | There was nothing for him to do now until Kynaston had finished . |
| 15 | There was nothing for him to do except settle down to some work . |
| 16 | There 's nothing for him to do , is there ? |
| 17 | There was nothing for him to do but play cards , which was allowed . |
| 18 | She 'd reassure him over and over that she was fine , she was safe , there was nothing for him to worry about , and Ashdown would then ring Joe and pass along anything new or helpful that he 'd been able to pick out of the conversation . |
| 19 | ‘ There is nothing for me to go back to , ’ she says , ‘ nothing for me to live off . |
| 20 | If one place could not be distinguished from another there would be nothing for me to seem to be saying in saying , ‘ Here ’ in answer to ‘ Where are you ? ’ . |
| 21 | There was nothing for me to hold on to prevent myself from getting closer and closer to the pool . |
| 22 | ‘ There is nothing for me to go back to , ’ she says , ‘ nothing for me to live off . |
| 23 | There 's nothing for me to do . |
| 24 | There 's nothing for me to do . |
| 25 | There was nothing for me to do , I was too young to get a work permit , and mum was determined we were n't going to start breaking the law the minute we 'd got there , so she called Auntie Muriel and Auntie Muriel said why not . |
| 26 | Nothing for me to do here really is there ? |
| 27 | There is nothing for me to add ’ . |
| 28 | If you do n't get it , there 's nothing for me to add . |
| 29 | ‘ There is nothing for us to discuss . ’ |
| 30 | The management committee will meet and it will divide the money into two and give each one however much the management committee feels that it should have and that management committee need not meet again for twelve months because there will be nothing for it to do . |