Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is very important because once you start to perceive yourself in negative terms you will probably start to act in a negative way , being quarrelsome and finally looking to food for comfort . |
| 2 | I feel it did , I strongly feel it , feel that , but I 'm also sure that its an awful lot easier than , than most people think , but its not going to work for us is it ? |
| 3 | He added : ‘ I want you to know you are both going to prison for a very long time . ’ |
| 4 | I said to me mother , I ai n't going to work for me dad like our Albert did . |
| 5 | And I said to me mother , I says look here , when I 'm old enough to work I say 's , I ai n't going to work for me dad I shall get a job on me own . |
| 6 | I enclose a cheque for £25 made out to Covenant House , since our Charities Aid Vouchers are n't going to work for Bruce Harris . |
| 7 | Aha I thought they were n't going to work for him Did he get the job at |
| 8 | He spent his first summer from Cambridge in leisurely visits to his family , staying first with his brother Edward in Salisbury then travelling to Ottery for one of the few lengthy returns he had made since childhood . |