Example sentences of "[indef pn] [to-vb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life , as John recalls it , was happy if hard , with not much time left over for fun after the daily toil was complete and certainly nothing to spare for luxuries . |
| 2 | But I 'd just like everyone to know for Daddy 's sake that he had nothing to do with it . |
| 3 | ‘ Five years ago , it was rare for someone to ask for help , ’ a debt expert said last night . |
| 4 | Especially in a village like Markham cum Cumbermound with nothing to do for kids in the evening . ’ |
| 5 | He is never one to go for gimmicks or flavour of the month hairdressing . |
| 6 | if you were here , where there 's no one to see for miles , |
| 7 | Such a peculiar coincidence startles me into remembering that I have something to write for Esquire . |
| 8 | The one thing you do not do is to plant your tree and then start looking for something to use for ties , any more than you bash a stake in afterwards and damage the roots . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Then he dozed in an armchair for a few hours , until he was too cold and stiff to bear it any longer , when he got up and made tea for everyone , and discovered that there was nothing to eat for breakfast . |
| 11 | ‘ The cat ai n't had nothing to eat for days , ’ objected her host , stung by her criticism . |
| 12 | Unable to find anyone to care for Beru while they were in hospital , they asked a tradesman to leave her in the mountains ‘ to die naturally ’ . |
| 13 | At night we 'd sleep in caves , huddled up in blankets with nothing to burn for firewood , while outside an icy wind swirled clouds of snow-dust all around us . |
| 14 | Well not only have you got a bit missing , you had n't had anything to eat for ages did you ? |