Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only got to do it for a second . |
| 2 | Charlotte only wants to marry him for the house and comforts he can provide her later in life . |
| 3 | There 's not much point in paying out over £100 if you 're only going to use it for two weeks a year on holiday . |
| 4 | However — ’ he shrugged ‘ — my vet in Westmead ca n't be expected to come out so far so I 've obviously got to find one for this shop . ’ |
| 5 | Always before he had only had to touch me for me to be ready for the final act which we 'd always denied ourselves ; there was no reason to suppose that would n't happen again . |
| 6 | I had n't , I 'd borrowed it from Duncan but I 'd heard the Hell 's Angel crack so many times before I suddenly decided to charge him for it . |
| 7 | There seems no point in saying that I love you in spite of everything because that only seems to irritate you for reasons best known to yourself and which you choose neither to explain nor comment on . |
| 8 | then you can go to indirect pressure and try to control the flow of bleeding by using indeed direct pressure , away from the wound , but where an artery , okay , is running near a bone , so you can compress the artery against the bone squash it hard , and for the arm you 'd use this one under here called the breaking now press , move your biceps muscle away and press underneath there , you can perhaps try to feel it for yourself , did you do that this morning or not ? |
| 9 | The daughter no longer had to provide care but said ‘ I merely go to see her for a chat and the company nowadays ’ . |
| 10 | Charlotte says she can only bear to recount it for the sake of others who may feel they 're totally alone in their plight . |
| 11 | I took another deep breath — I only wanted to see him for half an hour — and said what I could . |
| 12 | ‘ I only wanted to thank you for organizing a unique experience for me . ’ |
| 13 | He finally agreed to meet us for lunch at the Mayflower Hotel , but nothing happened between them . |
| 14 | Mr Charlwood was a widower with two teenage daughters and did not want to leave them for longer than necessary . |
| 15 | The federal pump-priming for their establishment , eventually extended to cover their first eight years , was not intended to support them for the long term . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm just goin' to make one for meself . ’ |
| 17 | They 're ideal if you just want to lose it for a couple of hours , but try not to get hooked . |
| 18 | Just as the poor could not expect to get something for nothing , so the rich did not expect to get nothing for something . |
| 19 | Just as the poor could not expect to get something for nothing , so the rich did not expect to get nothing for something . |
| 20 | She has said nothing of this to me , and as her father I really ought to know , I think , what she , and you , propose to do , even if in the modern fashion you do not choose to ask me for my blessing . ’ |
| 21 | The message from brokers is apply for shares , but do not look to hold them for the long term . |
| 22 | But what you are saying is you 're not going to give it for free ? |
| 23 | You know , they 're not going to do it for nothing . |
| 24 | I 'll have a go , but I 'm not going to do it for two or three |
| 25 | If I do n't do things for you , you 're clearly not going to do anything for yourself . ’ |
| 26 | We 're not going to have anything for tea tonight are we ? |
| 27 | Er I 'd just like to thank everybody for their generosity for taking part so . |
| 28 | Her eyes followed him as he unpacked the bike , and she wondered if he was just going to take it for granted that she would sleep with him of if he would offer her the choice . |
| 29 | There are a few well-rehearsed cases in which all the information provided by a text is not used to interpret it For example , people often fail to see what is wrong with asking of an air crash on a national frontier ‘ where were the survivors buried ? ’ or they fail to see why saying that a book ‘ fills a much-needed gap ’ is an insult to its author . |
| 30 | It seemed they could have everything merely because they were boys , they would not have to sacrifice anything for anything else . |