Example sentences of "anything for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anything for the mother of his son ! |
| 2 | ‘ You never do anything right , you never do anything for the right reasons . |
| 3 | There was no party or anything for the reopening . |
| 4 | You might as well wait yourself to see if there 's anything for the house . ’ |
| 5 | My weakness is costume jewellery — I have my own line — and anything for the hair : hats , headbands and scarves . |
| 6 | First , and obviously , does it do anything for the sufferer 's disease ? |
| 7 | Collectors would give anything for the chance to hear him project his art to us from the clarity of a recording studio . |
| 8 | I 'm not particularly fond of the control layout , either ; all the pots in a row look a bit ‘ lumpy ’ and do n't do anything for the line of the body . |
| 9 | In spite of having a range of injected plastic mouldings , there are always times when there just is n't anything for the size of a spar , the angle of fit , or sufficiently shock-absorbing to accept a crash , or to permit a kite to be folded . |
| 10 | Or live by the maxim ‘ anything for the sake of peace ’ ? |
| 11 | ‘ I suspect , ’ he said , ‘ you 've missed your usual evening nosh-up and so have I. ’ Liza had , indeed , missed the evening meal at the FANY headquarters , but she knew she would have foregone almost anything for the pleasure of simply sitting opposite this thin charming young man who seemed to have about him that same lighthearted loving insouciance possessed by the late Tom Tremayne . |
| 12 | You are in Rivendell , and you need not worry about anything for the present . ' ’ |
| 13 | would do anything for the crack |
| 14 | Elizabeth was also asked if she would like to make a list of what she does not like about community living but could not think of anything for the moment . |
| 15 | ‘ Women say to me they have n't done anything for the last ten years and it turns out they have had four children , run the PTA , served as parent governor , done charity work , organised a community activity and cared for aged parents . ’ |
| 16 | Few were even prepared to try to mediate , none to risk anything for the king and the Despensers . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's disgusting , ’ contributed Mrs Harper from time to time , presenting her flat , mean , worthless little counter simply because she could not bear to remain silent , to sit back where others played , although she recognized herself temporarily outnumbered , ‘ disgusting , I call it , ’ and Shirley , hearing this phrase for the millionth time , had a vision of households all over Britain in which censorious , ignorant old bags like her mother-in-law , who had never done anything for the public good , who had nothing positive ever to contribute to any argument , passed judgement on others while stuffing themselves with goose and roast potatoes and sprouts and apple sauce . |
| 18 | Although the courts have not expressly said so , it may be more difficult to do anything for the casus omissus . |
| 19 | My mother had four children she had bring up , without anything for the first two years , how the hell she managed it , I do n't know ! |
| 20 | We were n't charged anything for the food , so we were there as guests , although everybody else was working but we was given the most comfortable er room to stay , so it , there were quite a few people living there because of this reason , that er people coming from outside looking for a job , they would automatically er obtain the accommodation without being charged for it . |
| 21 | No , how about the men , do you do anything for the men ? |
| 22 | It really is important to get your statement , but first we 've got to see if we can do anything for the poor devil down there . " |
| 23 | Side by side with Voltaire and Kant , with their admiration of constructive and public-spirited autocrats , were others such as Helvétius , Holbach , Diderot and Rousseau , who refused to believe that this form of rule , however ‘ enlightened ’ , could do anything for the liberation of the individual subject . |
| 24 | ‘ I shall get into something comfortable , ’ she said , ‘ and then I sha n't want anything for the whole afternoon . ’ |
| 25 | I 'm … er … afraid I did n't get round to doing anything for the understudies . ’ |
| 26 | He 'd left the local school as early as his birthday would allow and had n't really done anything for the following year except watch his father die . |
| 27 | Was there anything for the children ? |
| 28 | Nobody could believe that the Government do anything for the British coal industry because they are absent from the debate and have not done anything to help our plight . |
| 29 | Not for the benefit of others , he never does anything for the benefit of others , one can only feel that he sees some advantage in releasing these British people . |
| 30 | ‘ Do n't say anything for the moment Mo . |