Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foreigners ( of whom there are quite a few at the UN ) can do nothing right for Mr Coleman . |
| 2 | I put it back in the trunk , disappointed that there was nothing right for me to wear and wondering what I was going to do , for I wanted to go out with Sally . |
| 3 | It might be impossible to draw everyone together for a single meeting but all need to be kept in touch with what 's going on and their opinions sought . |
| 4 | It 's now about bringing everyone together for the good of British rugby , ’ said the Scot . |
| 5 | ‘ I did n't want there to be any half-measures , did n't want to make love to someone just for the sake of it . |
| 6 | I just could n't go and get off with someone just for a joke , I could n't do it . |
| 7 | But as they do need the financial background too , finding a suitable candidate to take on the finance director role , particularly of a large organisation , can be a problem and it 's not unknown for a company to invest considerable time and money in training someone specially for the job , though it is rare . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's just … he 's brought someone home for tea . ’ |
| 9 | We 'd been trying to see someone there for months , but although I 'd delivered petitions , I 'd never managed to get through the front door . |
| 10 | One good way of judging a well-planned interview schedule of the formal type is to ask ‘ Could this schedule be handed over to someone else for analysis without them having to go back to the interviewer to ask what certain answers mean ? ’ |
| 11 | I 've always really had to depend on having someone else for the intricate stuff so that I can keep things fairly simple for myself . |
| 12 | You may have known someone else for twenty years and yet he will never be more than a casual acquaintance . |
| 13 | The NCF opposed the Home Office scheme on the grounds that , by performing work of national importance , objectors would merely be releasing someone else for military service — ‘ killing by proxy ’ . |
| 14 | She polished the chrome , and wiped sand away from the stained-glass frontage , but it was finally useless , just another piece of garbage from a past that could have happened to someone else for all the trace it had left on her . |
| 15 | HOME is the back seat of a car for 10-month-old Heidi Grady , yet still the local council officials blame someone else for their failure . |
| 16 | There 's always someone else for them to blame . |
| 17 | The reason why the Nazis persecuted the Jews was so that people would forget their own problems ; perhaps the reason you do this is so that you can blame someone else for your failings ? |
| 18 | For personal affection , insofar as it is good , consists mainly in the admiring contemplation of good states of another person , and these must either themselves be instances of personal affection , requiring good states of someone else for their object , or be instances of the love of beauty . |
| 19 | Even if we knew from a multiplicity of attestations that the thinness in question was specifically a thin curtain or veil or gauze , we would still not know what precisely the image was , for a curtain could be vertical or horizontal , it could be used to divide or screen or cover , it could serve the one who spreads it out , or someone else for whom it is spread out . |
| 20 | The learned Chief Justice had already dealt with inevitable accident , so that he was presumably contemplating a case in which the presence of A's goods on C's land was due , not to that , but to the tort of A or of someone else for whose act A was in some way or other responsible . |
| 21 | In giving orders to subordinates , an official will go by the rule book and will blame someone else for the existence of the rules where his decision appears inappropriate . |
| 22 | ‘ Trust a Britisher to blame someone else for their own lack of success . ’ |
| 23 | Often , they simply can not make the ultimate consumer 's choice , which is to vote with their cash and their feet and go to someone else for the service . |
| 24 | A third means of finding data for certain areas of research , particularly but not exclusively in the social sciences , is to look at information previously collected by someone else for their own purposes . |
| 25 | And he said if they can get someone else for the run they will . |
| 26 | Mrs Beattie , on the other hand was a free spirit by comparison but even she was conditioned by her class and her religion — she could give nothing away for nothing . |
| 27 | They 'd cleared nothing away for her . |
| 28 | I mean it 's not er it 's not something that I would normally do , I mean I would be quite happy to chat to somebody probably for too long . |
| 29 | And the the policy now with is that this will ta now take place I know that there 's been somebody here for the last three years , but this will now take place every two years . |
| 30 | She had worked like nobody else for years , right from when she was ten , and before that , hard manual labour . |