Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Let's just leave it for the moment , let's just leave it for the moment . |
| 3 | Let's just leave it for the moment , let's just leave it for the moment . |
| 4 | I 'll always honour and obey you , Harry , and I 'll do anything you say or go anywhere you want if you 'll only take me for a wife . " |
| 5 | I du n no but I got a wonderful hand look wha I 'll just show you for a start , cos I 'm putting that in the box . |
| 6 | But he said we wo n't charge you the daily rate , we 'll just charge you for the job . |
| 7 | The letter is interesting , though , for the light it casts on his rooted dread of mental imbalance , and on his horrified feeling that the unsatisfactory relations which had existed between himself and his father since eariy adolescence might somehow mar him for the rest of his life : You and I are both qualified for it [ neurosis ] because we were both afraid of our fathers as children . |
| 8 | And now he 'll not forgive me for a twelvemonth . |
| 9 | He 'll never forgive her for the life she has spent and she wo n't let him see what she 's come to at the end of it ! |
| 10 | I discovered he was teething — the sucking made his gums sore so he could only do it for a short time . |
| 11 | Sometimes you could only have them for a day or two before passing them on . |
| 12 | When I first went , I thought I 'd only get them for a couple of weeks at the most . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A chocolate bar or an ice-cream , or sometimes he 'd just take them for a walk . |
| 15 | With × 12 the haze is much more pronounced , and an unwary observer could easily mistake it for a comet . |
| 16 | For example , although we do not have in English the grammaticalization of the levels of respect that exist in Javanese , we do have means of expressing degrees of respect , largely by choices in the use of expressions : thus ( 31 ) would generally be a more polite request than ( 30 ) : ( 30 ) I want to see you for a moment ( 31 ) I wondered if I could possibly see you for a moment So by taking at first just the grammaticalized or encoded features of context in the world 's languages , we would have both something like a " discovery procedure " for relevant functions of language , and a constraint on the relatively vacuous theorizing that often attends speculation about the " functions of speech " . |
| 17 | She could hardly thank them for the tears in her eyes . |
| 18 | ‘ One is that , like I said , I could probably frame you for the kiosk and the burglary . |
| 19 | ‘ You could n't stand it for a second . ’ |
| 20 | I knew he was so incensed he could n't control himself ; I could n't blame him for the fury which inhabited him . |
| 21 | But even I could n't blame him for the phone ringing just as I was at the front door . |
| 22 | Almost that , and I want to say that I have some sympathy for the lady who has children and just could n't entertain them for the day . |
| 23 | Batty could n't make it for the second half against Villa after a recurrence of a calf injury he received against Wimbledon last Saturday . |
| 24 | I know you could n't hurt her for the world . |
| 25 | She looked at him as though in understanding , but she could n't answer him for a moment for there were so many things whirling around in her mind : that doctor and her Emma … |
| 26 | well you could but you could n't sell it for a reasonable price . |
| 27 | They 'd never take you for a terrorist . |
| 28 | Khrushchev could never forgive him for the cruelties and stupidities that brought Russia so close to defeat by Hitler . |
| 29 | ( Jakobson associates relationships of contiguity with the figure metonymy , and those of equivalence with that of metaphor , a point which need not concern us for the moment , but which will become relevant in the discussion of Lacan later . ) |
| 30 | I would just leave it for a while |