Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [vb infin] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe in ten , fifteen years the situation may change , but I do n't think enlargement for enlargement 's sake is going to be of benefit to the E C. |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't have time for lunch , ’ said Sara . |
| 3 | I do n't have time for all this rubbish . ’ |
| 4 | Seymour Cray is still hopeful of bringing his crippled Cray Computer Corp safely in to land , and this week told shareholders that the pay-off will come not with the Cray-3 , but with the Cray-4 the company is developing — ‘ People who predict that things ca n't be done — I guess I do n't have time for them , ’ he told shareholders sternly — ‘ That 's the challenge that I 'm willing to accept in trying to do things that ca n't be done ’ ; the Cray-3 was launched last month , a decade after Cray started work on it , but the Cray-4 is expected to offer twice the performance at half the cost , and the company hopes to demonstrate it by year-end ; it says it has enough cash to fund operations into September and says it is working with two investment banking firms on fund-raising strategies . |
| 5 | It 's my work that 's important to me at the moment — I do n't have time for casual affairs . |
| 6 | There is one taking place at the moment involving Internal Digital ( DEC ) employees and there seems to be a lot of traffic and interest in it , though I do n't have time for that one . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't have time for games , Lori . |
| 8 | He 's a fabulous guy and very funny , but it took a long time , and I do n't take credit for it , but it took a long time to put him in a situation where I felt that he was at maximum ‘ comfortableness ’ , so that his shyness — and he was very shy — was overcome . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't need gratitude for something which gave me such infinite pleasure . |
| 10 | I do n't dare stop for that wants to be away from him . |
| 11 | I did n't fetch money for it . |
| 12 | I 've got a thing from Steve about erm planning permission or application for Sizewell C that I did n't have room for in this newsletter . |
| 13 | Mind you , I did n't have time for a refresher course , we just had to get on with it . |
| 14 | And when I last looked at it , one question on behaviour modification had managed to creep on there as well but I ca n't remember what the question is , so you 'd better pay attention for the whole of the rest of this lecture in case I in case I remember it . |
| 15 | ‘ See , she 's an usherette now , so she do n't have time for me no more . ’ |
| 16 | She do n't have time for him . |
| 17 | Now if you do n't improve access for the disabled when you build a new station , you 'll never improve it . |
| 18 | You do n't make dance for other choreographers to come and look at . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ … This lady is well-connected , well-respected … you do n't make trouble for such people with impunity . ’ |
| 20 | You do n't want equality for women . |
| 21 | When asked several times for an explanation he eventually said very plaintively , ‘ Daddy , you do n't say grace for porridge ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ People think that you do n't need wood for a cremation , — the spokesman told New ’ Scientist , ‘ but you do , because bones are very difficult to burn , as that chap in North London found out . |
| 23 | if you do n't find use for it you can chuck it out . |
| 24 | again which they 've had have n't they ? , for how many weeks in the year do you actually attend cos I said that you do n't get grant for the holidays and it stipulates the term |
| 25 | You 're sort of running around all the time , so you do n't get time for anything else . |
| 26 | You 're sorta runnin' about all the time , so you do n't get time for anythin' else really . |
| 27 | The argument is that you only have one life , that you are the most important person in the world and that if you do n't take responsibility for your own development , who else will ? |
| 28 | And a lot of them have emotional problems ; I mean one of the girls I talked to here who 's dealing with calls says it 's difficult , you get some people who get very angry with you because you do n't have news for them . |
| 29 | You need a certain kind of front to breeze in from an alternative reality in the back of a time-travelling Volvo and sit in a Presley City bar , with a two-headed nipper on your lap , complaining to a private dick from the twenty-fifth century that you do n't have time for nonsense . |
| 30 | If you do not have space for a build-in model beside or under the sink , there are portables available that sit on the worktop , where they can be connected to the taps and drains for washing . |