Example sentences of "people [vb base] [adv] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Maybe a couple of dozen people show up for the party ; about half locals — mostly men , though there 's one married couple and a pair of single girls — and half travellers , New Age hippies from various scattered buses and vans parked in lay-bys and the highway equivalent of oxbows , where corners or short , twisty lengths of old roads have been replaced with more direct stretches . |
2 | Why do so many people breed just for the hell of it ? |
3 | His stars are real , the issues are real and , yes , the pauses those emotional , heart-felt mental delays when people open up for the cameras they , too , are so very , very real . |
4 | ‘ Stockton North people go more for the Conservatism of Macleod and Macmillan , ’ he said . |
5 | When people go out for the night they like to come away with being entertained . |
6 | He seems mystified by the fact that , as he says , ‘ most people come here for the dancing and the music . ’ |