Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [vb pp] for [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | So we do three so we only get paid for thirty nine hours a week instead of forty . |
| 2 | The pianist was Roger Bluff , who seemed able to draw a singing tone from the Festival piano that I have not heard matched for some time . |
| 3 | In fact the earliest exports to Australia had been in 1820 but the breed did not become established for another 30 years . |
| 4 | Yes , it was true he need not have wanted for female companionship over the past months . |
| 5 | IF ENGLAND had wanted a tough competitive fixture to complete their domestic programme before the Students World Cup in Italy in July 1 , they could not have asked for better preparation that at Blundellsands yesterday . |
| 6 | The best of the autograph collectors would not have accepted for one minute that their pursuit was the poor relation of manuscript collecting proper . |
| 7 | They might not have existed for all the notice Miss Jarman took . |
| 8 | Mr Crump could not have wished for better and yet he was not as responsive as Hope had expected : indeed he only barely acknowledged the compliment . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , as Primaflora was immoderately aware , he would not have come for these alone , with no heed for the heat of the day . |
| 10 | Embalming would not have allowed for this and , had the person not been dead prior to the beginning of the operation , he certainly would be once it was all over . |
| 11 | She devoured it , not having eaten for twenty-four hours , and then stayed on her cot until Duncan and Myeloski arrived . |
| 12 | In his last Test at Sydney in 1984–5 , having wrapped up the series with three victories in the first three games and not having lost for 27 Tests since 1981–2 , his team suddenly collapsed to an innings defeat , the architects of which were Bob Holland and Murray Bennett — spinners both . |
| 13 | Such a thing not having happened for many centuries , the idea , even though the smell of cordite had spread across the Channel and could be picked up in the Charing Cross Road , seemed difficult to envisage . |
| 14 | She said , " Did you decide not to get arrested for any reason , Bert ? " |
| 15 | You can easily get done for lesbian activities . |
| 16 | You must get out of this place and do the one good thinking you 'll ever have done for any woman . |
| 17 | It was as clear an indication as he could ever have wished for that Hope was not primarily interested in the immense dowry . |
| 18 | Roy won four full International caps for Northern Ireland , is the only Palace player ever to have appeared for that country and was the first 3rd Division player to be selected for a full international . |
| 19 | But within that probation period you can sort of like get dismissed for any time quite easily . |
| 20 | Female choice probably has selected for many of the properties of courtship , such as the ‘ zigzag ’ display and red belly of male sticklebacks . |
| 21 | Erm I know the Conversatives have also has gone for one three and not for two . |
| 22 | Had he come up on the bus with us from Bishop Auckland to Willington , we 'd probably have asked for one and a half . |
| 23 | Had he spotted it he would probably have opted for 18 ... |
| 24 | The French high command must also have known for some time , but hushed it up no doubt . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ The sort I could really have gone for twenty years ago . ’ |
| 26 | Guess what , you ai n't getting paid for that . |
| 27 | Detective Inspector Gerry Wright says although she had heart disease she may well have lived for several years , if it had n't been for the sudden shock of finding two men in her house . |
| 28 | There were periods , notably 1720 – 40 and 1760 – 1770 , when home consumption increased more quickly than exports , but as Professor Cole has pointed out , exports over the century as a whole could well have accounted for 40 per cent of the increase in industrial output . |
| 29 | But the rest of the act lacks this savagery and Posner should surely have aimed for more laughs earlier — at present the audience only relaxes , by the usual process of familiarity , around the half way mark . |
| 30 | Anyway , she was above all the lads in our year — she liked stringing them along but she could n't have fallen for any of them . |