Example sentences of "'s [adv] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I says it 's only for to keep your name right . |
| 2 | That 's basically for editing purposes , so that , if the editor , he likes the general tenor of what you 've said but he perhaps wants to , he wants to chop a little bit out or he wants to put that sentence up there , he 's got somewhere that he can actually , he can actually do his editing . |
| 3 | If he 's in for working with us on the next single then it might happen . ’ |
| 4 | He 's inside for having slit a man 's throat . |
| 5 | I do n't know how much machine time they would need on a daily basis , but if it 's just for updating files , I ca n't imagine it being very extensive . |
| 6 | This lady 's not for shouting down . ’ |
| 7 | The Lady 's Not For Burning by Christopher Fry was to be directed by John Gielgud at the Globe in May 1949 and Richard auditioned for the ‘ orphaned clerk ’ . |
| 8 | He was shaking with nerves when he did the most critical audition of his career — for John Gielgud and The Lady 's Not For Burning — and yet he forced himself through it . |
| 9 | He had been across to New York with The Lady 's Not For Burning , just before the Stratford season . |
| 10 | At the 1 980 Tory Party Conference she pronounced stubbornly that ‘ the lady 's not for turning ’ . |
| 11 | Statements such as ‘ The Lady 's not for turning ’ and ‘ Are we going to go back ? |
| 12 | ‘ Unfortunately , just like Mrs Thatcher , he 's not for turning , which is the biggest problem of all . |
| 13 | THE campaign for keeping open Rosyth Dockyard is all very laudable as long as it 's not for servicing nuclear submarines . |
| 14 | She 's not for marrying , this one . ’ |
| 15 | The lady 's not for returning |
| 16 | it 's not worth , supposed to be a freezer , it 's mainly for storing frozen food , but you can freeze small amounts in it . |
| 17 | It would do yes , but w , wo , imagine that they 're there because the team 's now for solving problems . |
| 18 | He 's doolally for putting up with it is n't he ? |