Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a comfort , you know ’ — she smiled now — ‘ to think that there 's somebody opposite you for the first meal of the day , even if it 's to have a row with . ’ |
| 2 | The opposition leaders he met agreed that the question of reunification of Germany was not one for the German people alone , but was the rightful concern of their European neighbours . |
| 3 | He gained a reputation as the Buster Keaton of the cricket world , a man who rarely seemed to have any expression on his face and who was not one for the excited cavortings that greet the fall of a wicket ; yet behind the mask a good deal of thought was given to his bowling , and he was liked and respected by his fellow players . |
| 4 | I am not one for the bright lights . |
| 5 | He was not one for the romantic niceties , was Reg . |
| 6 | The order was not one for the recovery or preservation of trust property but called for information and for copies of the defendants ' documents which , so far as compliance might incriminate them , the defendants were entitled to disregard . |
| 7 | Subjecting proposals to scrutiny by a body distinct from management may well be desirable , but this is clearly a function for an actual supervisory board , and not one for the court . |
| 8 | The appropriateness of the comments is not one for the committee since the committee has no responsibility for the judges , their selection or their comments . |
| 9 | If the terms are such as to leave the seller free , if he should wish to do so , to obtain more wine of the same description for delivery to the buyer , then the contract goods have not been identified and agreed upon at the date of the contract and the contract is not one for the sale of specific goods , Re London Wine Co . |
| 10 | The battle , he wrote , ‘ is not one for the future but is on NOW … |
| 11 | Not one for the purists , they said … others labelled it soft porn . |
| 12 | Just something for the Ketterings . ’ |
| 13 | He had built it out of practically nothing for the local amateur dramatic society and it had sat resplendently on the stage like something fetched straight from the nearest wood , so real , yet with touches of the bizarre , so brown , so greyish , so admired , so solid . |
| 14 | , you are now being taped for posterity and also its for the English Oxford Dictionary |
| 15 | It 's probably just as well I have n't been near you for the last week . |
| 16 | Or does he refuse to go near it for the rest of the session and become unsettled ? |
| 17 | She put by the rent for the six weeks , and laid out everything for the bills — she usually pays £6 a week for gas , £2.68 newspapers , £2 club for her son 's clothes , £30 for food , £2.75 for school dinners in term time . |
| 18 | He guessed that was how she would always be , blocking out everything for the preferred world of her own creation until an idea was spent . |
| 19 | Deictic function is pointing out something for the first time , often using demonstratives as in Look at that picture ! ; |
| 20 | I wanted to give back something for the great interest and happiness I have had from being able to make music to people . |
| 21 | And that 's just about it for the basic framework of the publication . |
| 22 | Today I for the United States , and the General Secretary for the Soviet Union have signed the first agreement ever to eliminate an entire class of U S and Soviet nuclear weapons . |
| 23 | Do you leave it off even though you 're paying , you 'll be paying wo n't you for the heating and it 's |
| 24 | I think also er , and this er , it may be that the er er URC does not want to be pushed round er , we got up er , to how many ministers this applies but I do know there are quite a number of ministers which who need their own cars a and a a at the church that pays the er , insurance , the road license and even something for the maintenance . |
| 25 | That 's right , cos it 'll be an hour , well to get there an hour before anyway wo n't we for the ferry ? |
| 26 | But was n't it for the best that his son be separated from Jennifer ? |
| 27 | Hm yes it 's better is n't it for the extra |
| 28 | In spite of having a range of injected plastic mouldings , there are always times when there just is n't anything for the size of a spar , the angle of fit , or sufficiently shock-absorbing to accept a crash , or to permit a kite to be folded . |
| 29 | It very rarely happens that you take several fish in one period and then nothing for the remainder of the time you spend on the water . |
| 30 | But er I mean it always er gained there was just a few working with it and they saw the improvement it was making and then everybody for the wild white clover . |