Example sentences of "[indef pn] [to-vb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't come home because there 's nothing to come home for , that 's why . |
| 2 | One Victorian scheme was for a tunnel lit by candles , where horses would draw passengers across in special vehicles , pausing only at an artificial island in the middle of the Channel for everyone to come up for air and water . |
| 3 | If they have been just very bad , and if they have someone to stand up for them , they are given three strokes of the whip , usually by Sheldon Parry , the born-again television director , and then made to put on a short green smock for the duration of the service . |
| 4 | This sounds like a beg for someone to come in for him and I reckon Wilko 's phone will soon be ringing and he is on the way out . |
| 5 | ‘ There 's a food company which wants someone to dress up for an advertisement as a giant slice of ham with cheese and tomato between two halves of an enormous bun . ’ |
| 6 | Someone to speak up for the person or their carer as an ‘ advocate ’ . |
| 7 | Erlend , six years younger , needed someone to speak up for him , sometimes . |
| 8 | Human beings need to find someone to blame both for their misery and for their guilt . |
| 9 | The room was sparse and tidy , as fresh-looking and tasteful as the rest of the apartment , and like the rest of the place it told her nothing about Carson — except , perhaps , that he employed somebody to clean up for him , because it had the impersonal neatness which could only be achieved by an outsider . |
| 10 | C is also a difficult language unless you are planning to use it full time and certainly not something to indulge in for fun . |
| 11 | Perhaps they are so anxious for everything to go well for their offspring that they insist on making all his decisions for him . |
| 12 | But I think that 's the only thing were , if I worked in a benefit office I would n't get on very well , because if I saw something I 'd try and move heaven and earth to make everything to go right for me . |
| 13 | Damn Sir Edmund Pusey — he probably knew more about it than he had let on , regarding it as better for my soul or something to find out for myself . |
| 14 | Be prepared to be the first one to stand up for what is right when something wrong is being done to or said about someone . |
| 15 | ‘ I know it 's feeble , Jess , and silly , but I 've never been one to stand up for my rights , so to speak . |
| 16 | In the 1920s , the incidents were a little more prosaic — but useful if they gave the patrolling constable something to chuckle over for an hour or two . |
| 17 | One to look out for . |
| 18 | One to look out for — Game Over is a new book by David Sheff , which is just published in the US by Random House at $25 and reviewed in the Wall Street Journal : it is subtitled How Nintendo Zapped an American Industry , Captured Your Dollars , and Enslaved Your Children . |
| 19 | Magical Hero , a May 1990 Westmead Cannon dog , bought privately off the bench by owner-trainer Bob Stephenson , also seems one to look out for , clocking 29.20 in his first solo trial . |
| 20 | It was something to dress up for . |
| 21 | The garden will be much more interesting if there is always something to watch out for , whatever the season . |
| 22 | Her new partner alleviated the terrible loneliness caused by my father 's death after 50 years of marriage and literally gave her something to get up for in the morning , when planting tulips would n't have been enough . |
| 23 | " You needed something to make up for it , " Lyn said . |
| 24 | Herol Graham 's case is a useful one to follow through for , in his fourth year at school , he realized that he had ‘ left it too late ’ and pinpointed one of the causes : |
| 25 | Tell everyone to watch out for a foreign body ? |
| 26 | The new arrangements will not force anyone to travel further for treatment . |
| 27 | This is absolutely nothing to rush home for at all is there . |
| 28 | ‘ You can do nothing to make up for the time that 's been wasted checking for a link between that incident and the murder of Hal MacQuillan . ’ |