Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb base] [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am demonstrating that I want to stand up for Hong Kong 's interests . |
| 2 | I figured my body was telling me to rest , so I 've flopped around for the last two weeks eating steaks and drinking beef tea , and getting stronger every day . |
| 3 | Can you explain the cultural foundation that you have set up for this loan ? |
| 4 | What 's the next production that you have lined up for ? |
| 5 | Peanuts are perfect badger bribes — just the same type that you buy to put out for the birds . |
| 6 | Erm the third one is we 've got a small amount of money out of , think again it 's out of TEED and , but it 's N Y T E C have got hold of it and it 's to do with further development of the Careers Service Tech Partnership , but it 's only a few thousand , it 's a very small n amount compared , I mean the bid that we 've put in for this Standards and Indicators is more like sort of thirty thousand . |
| 7 | Well it I mean already , it is having quite an im impact erm especially for items like furniture and bedding , and I mean bedding does n't last for ever , especially with a family , and I know erm they 're allowed every so often , but erm I mean I think erm the the cutbacks are becoming more and more and more and and people seem to be which means that we have to look around for voluntary erm agencies that ca such as , who can provide us with furniture or beds and bedding . |
| 8 | Well , we 've done that , as we said we would and of course , in a business such as Pearson , which is a people business er , although we regularly monitor employment statistics , such as total employ total number of employees er , revenue per employee , cost per employee , profit per employee , there are times when we have to take er , difficult decisions and er , so we 've gone in for a lot of redundancy , which we 'll see in , in er during the next slide or two . |
| 9 | She come off the phone and she said , bloody hell she said that one of the rare times I go to the trouble of making myself butties for dinner , cos usually she gets a pasty or something , and I get invited out for dinner , you this Viv er , a friend of hers , you know the one that was having trouble with all that drainage underneath the |
| 10 | I sling a few carcasses to prowling cats , and I get told off for it . |
| 11 | So it 's unusual and I get told off for giving you a choice but what do you think ? |
| 12 | erm and I 've sent off for some loose fitting ones |
| 13 | I was born here and I try to stick up for Britain — but things are bad . ’ |
| 14 | I am not happy when something unfair happens to someone else and I try to stand up for what is right . |
| 15 | ‘ This is the life I 've been trained for and I want to carry on for as long as possible . |
| 16 | If I need to get in for |
| 17 | ‘ And if I have to pay up for the Mercedes at £1 a week for the rest of my life then that 's what I will do . ’ |
| 18 | If you 've signed up for a Barclaycard recently , or joined the AA , you will probably have been tempted by the offer of ‘ free accommodation ’ in a ‘ superb range of hotels in the UK and Ireland ’ . |
| 19 | It took me a very long time because I do n't have the kind of face which people immediately commit to memory , but if you keep popping up for thirty-five years , then inevitably people are going to say , ‘ Do n't I know you ? ’ |
| 20 | and go out and that , if you want to come down for a couple of days . |
| 21 | If you want to get back for your high tea , you 'd better go . ’ |
| 22 | Time dulls the memory , though , and we keep going back for more . |
| 23 | She gives us our lunch and we have to wash up for her then . |
| 24 | So out of that stalemate negotiations have begun and they 've gone on for three years . |
| 25 | they had beautiful clothes and they 've gone on for years like that . |
| 26 | And they get let off for that ! |
| 27 | If they 've taken off for a fire two days or something ? |
| 28 | I can count the number of trout that I have taken from this lovely loch on the fingers of one hand and blank days are the rule , but I keep going back for more . |
| 29 | ‘ But you want to stay on for a couple more days ? |
| 30 | It 's hard to cope , but we have to carry on for everyone 's sake . |