Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | It 's now about bringing everyone together for the good of British rugby , ’ said the Scot . |
2 | But one artist is so entranced by their beauty that he 's painted nothing else for the last six years . |
3 | But as they do need the financial background too , finding a suitable candidate to take on the finance director role , particularly of a large organisation , can be a problem and it 's not unknown for a company to invest considerable time and money in training someone specially for the job , though it is rare . |
4 | Then he 'd have to go off and do something else for a while before he could stomach being with him again . |
5 | I think you need to go and do something else for a little while I said cos if you keep looking over thinking you ca n't do it , have a break and go back to it afterwards you just get really despondent |
6 | To hire one possibly for a specific specific job but |
7 | It might be impossible to draw everyone together for a single meeting but all need to be kept in touch with what 's going on and their opinions sought . |
8 | As for snooker , well , to approach the televisual ideal , by which we all measure ourselves , I 'd have to do nothing else for the rest of my life . |
9 | He had decided to do nothing further for the present and leave it to Berowne to make the first move . |
10 | I do n't want to do something just for the sake of it , I do n't really care about being on the Council , it 's just that I wanted to do something about those wretched caravans . |
11 | ‘ It 's a name I seem to be stuck with , but it really would be nice to be called something else for a change , says actor Nigel Havers , best known for his role in the ITV series of the same name . |
12 | I mean I get a few things in every week that , you know that you need , that you know er I go out on Monday and get everything else for the week like washing powder , and that sort of thing but u for food , I just get it every day . |
13 | I 've always really had to depend on having someone else for the intricate stuff so that I can keep things fairly simple for myself . |
14 | In giving orders to subordinates , an official will go by the rule book and will blame someone else for the existence of the rules where his decision appears inappropriate . |
15 | Erm , just a point of information , I think er on the hundred and thirty-one million , including the Lincoln , and I think er they would have been you would have been under serious er distress on that , because the information I have had from the Department of Transport , is that if the Lincoln scheme had gone ahead , it would have effectively blocked everything else for the next five years , and that would n't have done you any good , from where you 're elected , either . |
16 | Perhaps student life does not prepare anyone adequately for the daily slog of an ordinary job , and after two or three attempts to settle into a career in sales management and even in personnel , she had taken off for America . |
17 | And he said if they can get someone else for the run they will . |
18 | Did one yesterday for a man who was due to be executed today , erm , I do n't know whether he was or not , but he probably in a few days time . |
19 | erm because that 's like a continuous thing erm with with some other stuff , if it 's just like essays or projects due in at the end of this term or beginning of next , you know get , get the light stuff out of the way first erm and try you may find it easier if you , if you , what I used to do was sort of try and , you know , pace it out a little bit and not try and write an essay all at once because I found that very difficult to do but if you just sort of write a paragraph and do , do something else for a bit and you know kind of write another paragraph a bit later on in the day and , and , you know , kind of erm you know work , you know do n't , do n't try and write an essay all in one evening but try and sort of , you know , if you 've managed to spread it out over the course of a few days so that you do n't have to do too much at once I mean it 's difficult to concentrate on one thing |
20 | ‘ Shame we could n't get anyone else for the delivery , these watches are murder . ’ |