Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [verb] for " in BNC.

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1 After this freak show , we are led inexorably to what everyone has waited for ; the re-assemblage of The Birthday Party for a mini-greatest hits package of ‘ Dead Joe ’ , ‘ Wild World ’ , and ‘ Nick The Stripper ’ .
2 Gioella is the sort of person everyone has known for ever .
3 I agree with Roulet that everyone has to fight for equal conditions , and then we are happy to share .
4 Everyone has left for the weekend .
5 Under the right conditions they come into existence at a great rate , but no one of them has existed for long , and all will be destroyed within a few months .
6 It is that someone among them has taken for himself some of the treasures of the city which were destined for God 's own sanctuary .
7 And remember , if you 've never had to pay charges before and you do n't pay them now , then probably nothing has changed for you — except perhaps , that you 're better informed .
8 They 've been touring and doing the same thing for forty , fifty years and nothing has changed for them , and so I do n't think it 's a real resurgence in the US , but it 's great to see it happening over here . ’
9 Not everyone wants to pay for the highest level of service available , so clients can select the level of service they require .
10 That is the point about victims throughout the world — someone has to speak for them .
11 It might be the proverbial bullet with your name on , or a bunch of cancer cells that someone has ordained for you .
12 Applications are usually expensive , often costing several hundred pounds ; after all , someone has to pay for the advertising and the glossy box .
13 It could be an awesome responsibility knowing that someone has died for you . ’
14 I always notice what people are wearing , I think it 's fascinating ; I 'm good at appreciating what kind of look someone has aimed for , especially when it 's obvious she 's put a lot of time and effort into it .
15 someone 's gone for a swim
16 If someone 's expelled for drugs you know do n't you think everyone else would think hey , you know ?
17 ‘ We 're nicely tucked away here in case someone comes looking for us , ’ he remarked as he switched off the engine .
18 If someone comes looking for trouble , you are expected to decline his or her offer and give that person a chance to back off .
19 Attendance at these affairs , which involves queueing for the sandwiches , queueing for a glimpse of the Queen , queueing for the lavatories , queueing to leave , is potent evidence of the continuing talismanic influence of the monarchy .
20 I am interested in working for the Forestry Commission , for a national park or getting a job which involves caring for any aspect of the environment .
21 The servants , who did much of the living which is commemorated here , and his parents , who did so little of it , are placed well within reach of an impartial sympathy in a work which nowhere feels vindictive , and which declines to settle for any final understanding of what went on .
22 As Falk points out , Builder himself has argued for such a shift ( Builder , 1979 ) .
23 The debtor himself has to apply for this type of order , in practice often encouraged by the plaintiff .
24 One of your writers actually says : ‘ If there is to be government somebody has to pay for it . ’
25 If there is to be government somebody has to pay for it .
26 Erm , how often do you go to a meeting or have you been to a meeting , which has to stop for twenty minutes because some clown has left the files in his office , and he has to go back and retrieve them .
27 Whether society has the right to determine its own morality is a debate which has raged for some time .
28 There has developed what has been described as a ‘ transition trap ’ , experienced by the generation which has cared for their elders in the traditional manner , but whose children have increasingly embraced Western lifestyles , and fail to fulfil customary expectations about caring for their parents .
29 He said yesterday that as Mr Dignum spent most of his time looking after the stores , which include the troubled Silo chain in America , the move ‘ reflects the reality of the situation which has existed for some time ’ .
30 The Russian Federation is a new state , which has existed for only a few months .
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