Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I only met her for the first time earlier this evening . ’ |
| 2 | Tomorrow , of course , Kathleen Long joins us for the Phone the Doc slot . |
| 3 | The bishops also argued that any so-called restricted form of divorce was impossible to maintain in practice and that divorce might solve the partners ' problems but only created them for the children . |
| 4 | It was a new Fender Strat , bought from a shop on Shaftsbury Avenue in February ‘ 62 , and yes , I wish I still had it , but only to sell it for the large sums they fetch now ! |
| 5 | I said if I 've got to do a dozen sausage rolls for one I 'd better do them for the others . |
| 6 | Information having the necessary quality of confidence which is supplied by one party of a contract to another for the purpose of enabling that other to perform a contract will usually be subject to an obligation of confidence so that the recipient may only use it for the purpose of that contract . |
| 7 | and they 're only saying it for the sake of keeping going . |
| 8 | I was only doing it for the money . ’ |
| 9 | He smiled tenderly , and the knowledge that he was only doing it for the benefit of anyone who might be watching sliced deep into the very heart of her . |
| 10 | Well this is alright , but we 're only doing it for the beneficiaries int you ? |
| 11 | I only meant it for the best . |
| 12 | You have to get him wound down a bit , you have to do it , you know of a about half an hour or so ask him for the proper name ! |
| 13 | So keep it for the end and keep it for when you 've not only done all the questions but had a quick check through to see have |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd rather be doing it on my own , ’ Maria responded waspishly , taking advantage of the fact that no one was near enough to overhear them for the moment . |
| 15 | The Scottish Typographical Circular reported of this conflict that " people are beginning to see that making women printers … will only unfit them for the active and paramount duties of female society " . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd better reimburse you for the sweets ’ Vernon insisted , in a tight unfriendly voice . |
| 17 | ‘ I only stole it for the wire , ’ she said , ‘ but now we 've got it I suppose we might as well drink it . ’ |
| 18 | If you 've just joined us for the eight o'clock news , as many people do , welcome . |
| 19 | Well , I 've got , if you you just bear with me a moment , I still have one foot dragging in H one , but I thought we 'd got to the stage where in order to try and clarify thinking on the matter we ought to progress onto H two , erm , that just let me reveal the thinking , erm that , before I do that can I just say in terms of mechanics those of you who have just joined us for the first time , could you turn your name boards round so I can see them , thank you , and when you want to come in the normal practice is to put your name board on end , so it will attract our attention . |
| 20 | I assumed he 'd just picked you for the resemblance . ’ |
| 21 | Dad 's a , dad 's just nominated you for the big in the campus . |
| 22 | ‘ You think we just built it for the tourists ? ’ |
| 23 | I have just done it for the only time in the 23,400,000 minutes of my life so far , and I doubt if I 'll do it again , so call these odds one in 25 million . |
| 24 | The odds cited above would have given little comfort to the man in Kurunagala who , during a rash of cattle thefts , had to pay a ransom for the same animal seven times before finally selling it for the paltry sum of two rupees . |
| 25 | But he was saying you see , what 's happened is the they is n't his he just delivers them for the bloke |
| 26 | Th we must be able to learn from this period , particularly a partial austerity mm but these events are sound events in themselves and that we 're not just doing it for the sake of the sponsor or attracting a sponsor and that it 's not , in itself , completely necessary to have a sponsor otherwise the competition would n't exist . |
| 27 | And they 're not just doing it for the money because , you know , if you just sort of give them a mundane task like trolleys for example , they 're banging on the door , you know , when can I get off this , when am I going to get some responsibility . |
| 28 | Just doing it for the week . |
| 29 | Just keep them for the telly then . |
| 30 | Yes , oh aye , aye , just use it for the month Charlie and then , and then in the bucket , do n't keep using it after that . |