Example sentences of "that [indef pn] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would seem to be an obvious recognition that nothing lasts for ever . |
| 2 | Apparently , that we only live once , that nothing lasts for ever , that the hours and days and years are rolling inexorably round , that soon we will all be in Hades with yesterday 's worthies , and nobody 's family connections or talent or good deserts will get them out : so we had better make the most of life while we have it . |
| 3 | Imagine my amazement when , on my first day in the new set-up , I found that everyone fought for attention by dramatizing every event . |
| 4 | The drawback is the cost of insisting that everyone goes for the same type of equipment . |
| 5 | THE OXFORD BOOK OF APHORISMS ed by John Gross Oxford , £6.99 APHORISMS in the post-Johnsonian sense of ‘ a short pithy statement containing a truth of general import ’ are verbal successes that everyone strives for and few achieve , as Thoreau said , and John Gross here quotes , ‘ A perfectly healthy sentence is extremely rare . ’ |
| 6 | Mrs Bennett of West Yorkshire made a similar complaint about Lovejoy : the character ‘ warned an acquaintance that someone looking for him ‘ wants his balls on a fork' . ’ |
| 7 | When the author of the Life of Edward the Confessor says that he trusted the cause of God to his bishops , and ordered secular judges to act fairly , so that honesty could have royal support and evil its just condemnation , this may be an indication that someone did for Edward what Wulfstan had done for Æthelred and Cnut . |
| 8 | It is extraordinary that the Minister should take it into his head that he knows better than people in the museums world , and impose upon them a period that nobody asked for — indeed , everybody asked for the opposite . |
| 9 | But it was on days like these that one longed for a friend , hoped for a caller . |
| 10 | If there is no improvement , discuss the situation with the doctor , and consider trying another type of ‘ milk-free ’ formula — it may be that one works for your baby while another does not . |
| 11 | It is to the Standard that one looks for the first record of all . |
| 12 | Again it is possible to make categorical assertions in English without giving any indication of the evidence that one has for making them or of one 's attitude towards what one is saying : there are languages that can not do this . ’ |
| 13 | The 1974 Rehabilitation of Offenders Act states that anyone jailed for between six months and two and a half years has their conviction wiped out after 10 years . |
| 14 | ‘ Darling , you always were more than grateful for the smallest things that anyone did for you , but in future you 'll be able to turn to me . ’ |
| 15 | Almost everything about the French mood in 1945 suggests that unqualified independence was just about the last thing that anyone envisaged for any part of the French colonial empire . |