Example sentences of "[pron] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ God , Nurse , ’ Ted exclaimed virtuously , ‘ There 's nothing for a hot-blooded sinner like me to do when he sees you coming , except close his eyes and pray for continence . ’ |
| 2 | Riven blinked , and realised he had been staring at nothing for a long minute . |
| 3 | We do n't say nothing for a long time . |
| 4 | She said nothing for a long time , then shook her head . |
| 5 | Nothing for a long time like the five hundred . |
| 6 | But of course these benefits did nothing for the increasing number of lone mothers who were not widows but who were unmarried or , more commonly , divorced or separated . |
| 7 | ‘ I shall do nothing for the simple reason that — knowing Doreen — it would be a waste of time and effort . |
| 8 | When the adjective is one which qualifies sense , one would expect the altered phrase to have become quite useless — perhaps even to be designated as ungrammatical — precisely because such adjectives require exhibition of the properties involved in the noun in order to have their own effect , by combining with those properties ; so , if the noun or pronoun head of the phrase merely indicates entity-hood without mentioning any properties , there is nothing for the sense-qualifying adjective to work on . |
| 9 | Exactly , they 're trying to screw me for every single penny they can get out of me |
| 10 | But then he suddenly dumped me for no apparent reason and left me broken-hearted . |
| 11 | He tried to kill me for no apparent reason . |
| 12 | ‘ Not unless one of them had asked me for a spare key — and no-one did . ’ |
| 13 | They do n't pay me much , but I 'm looking about me for a good opportunity . |
| 14 | My course will eventually qualify me for a good career but meanwhile I 'm struggling on an allowance . |
| 15 | Ho , master greybeard loon , ’ he was shouting to Kelly , ‘ come fill the cup , or stap me for a whey-faced knave . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ After the defeat at Bramall Lane they had the biggest hammering they 've had off me for a long time . |
| 17 | She 'll stay with me for a long time . ’ |
| 18 | The policeman looked at me for a long time . |
| 19 | She would not argue , she would not say anything , she would not look at me for a long time . |
| 20 | ‘ She has worked for me for a long time . |
| 21 | Indeed , the fact that he did not refer her to a different psychiatrist convinced me for a long time that I had misconstrued the situation . |
| 22 | So it 's a thing that stayed with me for a long time . |
| 23 | Felipe sat with me for a long time . |
| 24 | The owner had known me for a long time and asked me if I could run a brothel . |
| 25 | I am pleased to have the opportunity to raise this subject which has interested me for a long time . |
| 26 | Miss Hawthorne looked at me for a long moment . |
| 27 | ‘ You 're asking me for a snap judgement , Miss Levington ? ’ |
| 28 | And the , I went to the my little now in Italy , making this conditional he says it 's no bloody good on me , poor old curly what , I think he 's about ninety , he looked it , he said what they keep making you conditional for he said you 've got no ruddy condition it 's gone and the , the recommended me for a complete discharge and , and eh , I started off with fifty per cent pension . |
| 29 | My first girlfriend left me for a new man . |
| 30 | He paused again , as if the memory of that year had stopped him ; and to prepare me for a new facet of himself , a new shift . |