Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Carry on seeing him for the time being . |
| 2 | If Kee , who is far from ignorant in these matters , wanted to go on starving herself for the sake of an old love which is dead and rotting in the ground , well , so be it , that is her business . |
| 3 | Tomorrow , of course , Kathleen Long joins us for the Phone the Doc slot . |
| 4 | Information having the necessary quality of confidence which is supplied by one party of a contract to another for the purpose of enabling that other to perform a contract will usually be subject to an obligation of confidence so that the recipient may only use it for the purpose of that contract . |
| 5 | and they 're only saying it for the sake of keeping going . |
| 6 | I was only doing it for the money . ’ |
| 7 | He smiled tenderly , and the knowledge that he was only doing it for the benefit of anyone who might be watching sliced deep into the very heart of her . |
| 8 | The 44-year-old composer said : ‘ When they let me know they could not afford to pay more than £6 million , I realised we had to step in to save it for the nation . |
| 9 | So keep it for the end and keep it for when you 've not only done all the questions but had a quick check through to see have |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd rather be doing it on my own , ’ Maria responded waspishly , taking advantage of the fact that no one was near enough to overhear them for the moment . |
| 11 | ‘ I only stole it for the wire , ’ she said , ‘ but now we 've got it I suppose we might as well drink it . ’ |
| 12 | Hurley had not forgiven him for the loss of Syrian George , and he was still under heavy pressure from Washington to show results , but in general Coleman made sure they got along for the sake of his back-channel reports to MC/10 Control . |
| 13 | It will not cover me for the hearing . |
| 14 | This suggests that something is amiss with the job definition and , by implication , also with education and training which does not prepare them for the reality . |
| 15 | His mother had not joined them for the meal , bowing in this regard to the T'ang 's wishes . |
| 16 | But it is too soon for him to face the likes of Devon Malcolm , and Fletcher said the tour selectors would not consider him for the pipe opener in Faridabad . |
| 17 | I assumed he 'd just picked you for the resemblance . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Then since you accept what I say , madam — ’ interposed the cardinal with a sense of timing that suggested the protector had not nominated him for the task solely on account of his venerability ‘ — might I urge you to give the prince into my custody ! ’ |
| 19 | Life had not prepared him for the task , and it soon became clear that he lacked the natural shrewdness and strength of character that a Gdansk plumber was to show the Polish bosses three years later . |
| 20 | You 'll see — I 'll probably not see him for the rest of the week . ’ |
| 21 | The hair on his face was untrimmed , and his nose had spread with drinking , but the weather-hard skin was not the skin of a drunkard , and if the hair on his temples was thinning , you could not see it for the leather fillet he wore . |
| 22 | ‘ People will not remember me for the amount of money I have accumulated so much as the titles I have won . |
| 23 | But he was saying you see , what 's happened is the they is n't his he just delivers them for the bloke |
| 24 | She lived for occasions and would not miss one for the world . |
| 25 | ‘ I ‘ m not doing it for the money . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm not doing it for the money , ’ said the new Bob . |
| 27 | It also did something to the plumbing , and it was decided not to keep us for the month we had been promised , but to billet us out to houses nearby . |
| 28 | The book is intended for undergraduates in their second or third year of a philosophy degree , but this need not necessarily deter readers with other backgrounds ; e.g. , my father claims to be able to understand it , though perhaps he would not thank me for the suggestion that he is representative . |
| 29 | And they 're not just doing it for the money because , you know , if you just sort of give them a mundane task like trolleys for example , they 're banging on the door , you know , when can I get off this , when am I going to get some responsibility . |
| 30 | Just doing it for the week . |