Example sentences of "in [pron] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end , he adopted the role of ‘ cockney writer ’ , a role which was genuine , and which showed the boys that Corrigan was interested in them for themselves . |
| 2 | He needed all those things in me for which you had no use , pity , indulgence , even forgiveness . |
| 3 | Could draw the absolute hate I have in me for him . |
| 4 | The cherry berets dragged the bewildered old montagnard away with a brusqueness which inspired no confidence in me for his future prospects . |
| 5 | Plenty of time , she had declared , in which for her to catch her breath before , at some time prior to eleven , she went off to keep her highly valued appointment with Mr Gajdusek on Friday morning . |
| 6 | Although he does not speak there of properties as being natural or not , his account of the sense in which for him there is such a thing as intrinsic value does , I think , serve as an account of what he was getting at in regarding good as non-natural . |
| 7 | because of the look of it , when in fact that 's only part of it it depends whether he 's gon na be motivated there , they mo it 's not gon na need much motivation but if people are interested in you for what you are like , like they have been , yeah , and he 's experienced all , he 's been somebody special there has n't he ? |
| 8 | Sheila stayed in one until her daughter was born and adopted ; Denise left London to live in the West Country on her own , and organised a place in one for herself and her eight-week-old baby ; and Lisa went into one when she was about six months pregnant . |
| 9 | It was Mark who had persuaded her to approach the bank for a loan , Mark who had suggested her old friend Linda George , who had graduated in business studies at the same time that Theresa had finished her fashion degree , should join forces with her to organise the commercial side , Mark who had given her enough confidence in herself for her to allow her mother to put up her house as security — something Theresa had fought against even whilst realising there was no other way to secure the loan she needed . |
| 10 | Anger rose up in her for whatever poor pitiful creature was shut away down here , and her eyes blazed yellow-gold in the duskiness , so that Raynor , watching her , thought : yes , that is the wolflight . |
| 11 | The story is not interested in her for herself . |
| 12 | but it 's not television , i i it 's , it 's Doctor Who and , and Prisoner and , you know er very interesting and very easy for enthusiasts to direct a lot of their time and energy to maybe I do n't maybe there was a increased pressure to work and study which was erm self motivated rather than being externally imposed , maybe he maybe there was a fundamental lack of enthusiasm in him for what is described as the hardware of computing , the , the , the , the , the instruments , the machines maybe there was a less than comprehensive understanding of what is known as the firmware , that 's to say I mean operating systems that are built into the thing to make it work , you 've got to understand the firmware because otherwise you do n't understand what the machine will think you mean and what that will do and I would have thought that whereas superficially you can ignore the firmware , it 's all in there , it understands as you , I would have thought , grew into a er a graduate computer scientist you 've got to have some idea about that . |
| 13 | It would be too much , given his limitations , to talk of Nikita the Great , but there was uncommon ability in him for which the world could eventually breathe more easily . |
| 14 | ‘ What 's in it for me ? ’ was the favourite phrase of another . |
| 15 | What 's in it for me ? |
| 16 | I know someone , does n't work for us , quite independent , nothing in it for me , do n't worry about that . |
| 17 | So I thought I 'd tell you about this bit of niceness — and no , there 's not a free Bettencourt signature model in it for me . |
| 18 | Self reliance , individual enterprise , ‘ what 's in it for me ’ , as opposed to ‘ how can we help our neighbour ’ , was the message . |
| 19 | ‘ I adore the book although foolishly , there 's no acting part in it for me . |
| 20 | ‘ And this time there is an acting part in it for me . |
| 21 | But lots of other agendas are being ignored , like the ‘ What 's in it for me ? ’ factor . |
| 22 | ‘ One faces a decision , I guess at such times , about how far to go with company instructions , and since the spirit of such meetings only appeared to be correcting a horrible price level situation , that there was not an attempt to actually damage customers , charge excessive prices , there was no personal gain in it for me , the company did not seem actually to be defrauding , corporate statements can evidence the fact that there have been poor profits during all these years … |
| 23 | ‘ One faces a decision , I guess , at such times , about how far to go with company instructions , and since the spirit of such meetings only appeared to be correcting a horrible price level situation , that there was not an attempt to damage customers , charge excessive prices , there was no personal gain in it for me , the company did not seem actually to be defrauding … morally it did not seem quite so bad as might be inferred by the definition of the activity itself . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ What 's in it for me ? ’ |
| 25 | Though I know that the struggle is taking place somewhere , as a housewife I find it harder to believe that there is a part in it for me . |
| 26 | What 's in it for me ? |
| 27 | These perceptions will then be evaluated through a consideration of ‘ what 's in it for me ? ’ |
| 28 | A asked ‘ What 's in it for me ? ’ and was told that he would receive £10,000 if W bought it for £100,000 or less . |
| 29 | Try to keep it as broad as you can to do the well alright then I know why it is , what 's in it for me . |
| 30 | But what 's in it for me ? |