Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pers pn] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | she 's obviously in it for the bet . |
| 2 | I was only in it for a lark . ’ |
| 3 | I 'm only in it for the fund-raising ! |
| 4 | Kim 's only in it for the money . |
| 5 | ‘ I agree , but then he was only in it for the money . |
| 6 | I can never be grateful enough to them for the sacrifice they made to keep me at school , when even ten shillings a week would have relieved the pressure on the food bill . |
| 7 | Nigel , who in any case really delighted in sows ' ears which had the faintest possibility of turning into even cotton purses , beavered away with them for an hour or more before unceremoniously dumping them in the dustbin and banging down the lid . |
| 8 | I guessed you were from the first , and the fact that you could quite happily and openly go away with him for a weekend everyone would know about confirmed that I was right . |
| 9 | He took it away with him for the weekend , to his home in Oxfordshire . |
| 10 | But if cheating is necessary , you can commonly get away with it for a time . |
| 11 | you do n't get that with the Conservative party cos they do n't let 'em get away with it for a start |
| 12 | Will he get away with it for the rest of his life ? ’ |
| 13 | She 's OK ’ with Mrs Lennox and it 's good for her to get away from me for a bit just now and again . |
| 14 | If only she could get right away from him for a while , then she 'd be able to cope . |
| 15 | She flung herself away from him for a moment , and then returned to attack his sex but he held her off , had to use some force to hold her blind-eyed , gaunt-faced , now grasping body away from his . |
| 16 | Frankly it 'll be a pleasure just to get the hell away from you for a while . ’ |
| 17 | That you see the struggle as demanding too much from you personally and so you want to get right away from it for a while ? ’ |
| 18 | The triangular shape is also common : starting with a broad base , narrowing steadily as one goes away from it for a quarter to half a mile , until one reaches the outlet in a main road of the normal width . |
| 19 | ‘ There 's been a reversal to bands saying , ‘ We 're just in it for the music ’ , and we 're not like that at all . |
| 20 | She had dinner with Ben and Maggie Bradshaw , and Oliver and Bron Henderson had a party which she attended , although she ended up bumping into Jack as she might have known she would , and going home with him for the night . |
| 21 | Yet again , a big , comparatively heavy bait such as a lobworm , on a clean bottom may require only a few inches , for the sheer weight of this bait means the bream has to position himself quite close to it for the suck to be effective . |
| 22 | You have to quite carefully , be extra carefully with me for a minute cos I ca n't quite |
| 23 | Later I trained a kestrel which I found much less inquisitive and more likely to come straight to me for the food . |
| 24 | She stared wordlessly at him for a moment , her eyes wide with dismay . |
| 25 | Nathan gazed fixedly at her for a moment with an expression she could n't fathom , then disappeared again . |
| 26 | ‘ You seem to have a rather inflated idea of your own attractions , Mr Sterne , ’ she muttered , scarlet-faced , kicking her suitcase towards the door , and reaching cautiously behind her for the latch . |
| 27 | Appalled by the racism she observed there , she worked energetically against it for the rest of her life , giving extensive financial support to the Black trade union movement . |
| 28 | do n't fiddle with the speaker pet come round here to me for a minute |
| 29 | It would be quite worth it for the expression on his face . |
| 30 | Do you want to just hold that on there for me for a second . |