Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imagine my amazement when , on my first day in the new set-up , I found that everyone fought for attention by dramatizing every event . |
| 2 | But I 'd just like everyone to know for Daddy 's sake that he had nothing to do with it . |
| 3 | ‘ Why , it sounded like someone crying for help , ’ thought Deborah . |
| 4 | Erm told me that they had a lot of or a lot a number of people ringing purporting to be someone asking for information , and they like to keep a log of these bogus phone calls , I then rang the patients mother and and told her what had happened as quickly as I could . |
| 5 | Anyone in doubt about the identity of someone collecting for charity should check with the organisation they claim to be with . |
| 6 | ‘ Five years ago , it was rare for someone to ask for help , ’ a debt expert said last night . |
| 7 | Someone said for President , no , Jimmy Stewart for President , but Ronnie Regan as best friend . |
| 8 | That is true , but if somebody applied for planning permission tomorrow or a or a renewal of planning permission , it would be difficult if not impossible to refuse permission for those to be committed . |
| 9 | Yeah , but the other thing was , it was n't that , towards the end of the programme , they were n't so much who fired first , its , erm , there is , there is no evidence either way to support either story , the Irish say there was no Government , there was nobody running for Government you know , said that they had three |
| 10 | At six o'clock everyone assembled for dinner and Mr Priddy signalled that the first course could be taken in , a heavy tureen of mock turtle soup which was to be served from a side table . |
| 11 | Randalstown are the side everyone tipped for league glory . |
| 12 | Like the professional illusionists , it was a case of hypnosis , part entertainment , part belief , keeping the moment of interruption suspended so that no one asked for fear of not hearing all of the tale . |
| 13 | Obviously , when there is more than one rescuer there is no problem — one goes for help and the other stays with the patient . |
| 14 | He had a new strap fitted , but had the old one retained for posterity . |
| 15 | Location , Sensation , Modalities , Concomitants , That 's what one needs for diagnosis ! |
| 16 | Such a peculiar coincidence startles me into remembering that I have something to write for Esquire . |
| 17 | If some unit larger than the grapheme is used , such as a ( vowel + consonant ) unit , one might expect gead to be pronounced to rhyme with bread , because the most common pronunciation for — ead is the one used for bread . |
| 18 | Peppermint , M. x piperita , needs no description as to smell , but the leaves of black peppermint tend to be ovate , 6cm ( 2½in ) long and 4cm ( 1½in ) wide , and are purple tinged — this is grown commercially and is the one used for peppermint tea , so popular in North Africa , Pineapple mint , M. rotundifolia " Variegata " , is a form of the round-leaved mint , which often crosses with M. longifolia . |
| 19 | In this discussion the brace is the one used for stability in stoppers or as a recovery stroke to avoid capsize , not the one used when breaking in or out . |
| 20 | The bass clef is the normal one used for tenor trombones , the tenor clef being used for the top fifth or so of their compass . |
| 21 | Power Pak An update of Transpower , using two portable interchangeable heel implants , one designed for training , the other for competition purposes . |
| 22 | The current state of professional development in arts education could be explored in the light of these three categories and in each one cause for concern be found . |
| 23 | A , who has an interest in property held by B upon trust for him , may hold that interest upon trust for D , or transfer it to C upon trust for D. ) If , however , an attempt is made to create a trust by transfer to a trustee , but the transfer itself fails from a defect in form — where land , for instance , is transferred by unsealed writing , or the transfer of shares in a company has not obtained some necessary consent of the Treasury — the trust also will fall , unless the transaction is one made for value , a term which includes settlements or agreements for settlement in consideration of a contemplated marriage , but not of one already celebrated . |
| 24 | No one votes for poverty — at least , not yet . |
| 25 | The train she was in was one bound for south London , as perhaps all were , but it would be reached via the Bank instead of Tottenham Court Road , describing a loop through the City to do so . |
| 26 | And that first night she experienced how one undressed for bed and how one was expected to lie . |
| 27 | Everything swept and everything decked for welcome |
| 28 | It was Roger Fry 's contention that an object , say a bunch of carrots on a market stall , could be viewed in a practical way as something to eat for supper , or aesthetically . |
| 29 | It seemed that he was about to slap her and she leaned forward to take it , accepting it as the thing one did for hysteria . |
| 30 | A fight ensued which left one man dead , one crippled for life and several with lasting scars . |