Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] [adv prt] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There 's a food company which wants someone to dress up for an advertisement as a giant slice of ham with cheese and tomato between two halves of an enormous bun . ’ |
| 2 | Her hands were cupped before him in a stylised gesture which he recognised not as that of a beggar but of a supplicant , a penitent , someone reaching out for a blessing from God . |
| 3 | Someone to speak up for the person or their carer as an ‘ advocate ’ . |
| 4 | and somebody said it was because since the stockmarket flopped people drew out and put the money in building societies , building societies were bursting at the seams , did n't want to , and banks as well , did n't know what to do with all this money , so , somebody went in for a loan and asked for fifty thousand and come out with a hundred thousand , they could n't get it out , give it to people , a lot , a lot of people that really er were n't safe gambles |
| 5 | Is everything sorted out for the moment ? |
| 6 | In the 1920s , the incidents were a little more prosaic — but useful if they gave the patrolling constable something to chuckle over for an hour or two . |
| 7 | Oncoming carts appeared in the gloom , the drivers calling to each other , one moving over for the other . |
| 8 | ‘ They just collapse , ’ he said , leaning against his winning pumpkin , which looked like something run up for a stage set . |
| 9 | If anybody comes in for a car radio cassette , I 've stuck one at the top there twenty quid if anybody |
| 10 | inflexible everybody comes in for an hour . |
| 11 | ‘ You can do nothing to make up for the time that 's been wasted checking for a link between that incident and the murder of Hal MacQuillan . ’ |