Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pers pn] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | she 's obviously in it for the bet . |
| 2 | I 'm only in it for the fund-raising ! |
| 3 | Kim 's only in it for the money . |
| 4 | ‘ I agree , but then he was only in it for the money . |
| 5 | But there does n't seem to be much in it for the peoples themselves . |
| 6 | I can never be grateful enough to them for the sacrifice they made to keep me at school , when even ten shillings a week would have relieved the pressure on the food bill . |
| 7 | But they still raped our country , disgraced us , pissed all over us for the crimes of fifty years ago . |
| 8 | He took it away with him for the weekend , to his home in Oxfordshire . |
| 9 | Will he get away with it for the rest of his life ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Still , could n't you get away from it for the next week or so — till she 's gone back ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ There 's been a reversal to bands saying , ‘ We 're just in it for the music ’ , and we 're not like that at all . |
| 12 | She had dinner with Ben and Maggie Bradshaw , and Oliver and Bron Henderson had a party which she attended , although she ended up bumping into Jack as she might have known she would , and going home with him for the night . |
| 13 | He tells the despairing Moses to strike a rock with his rod , and water will stream forth from it for the people to drink . |
| 14 | Yet again , a big , comparatively heavy bait such as a lobworm , on a clean bottom may require only a few inches , for the sheer weight of this bait means the bream has to position himself quite close to it for the suck to be effective . |
| 15 | It sounded as though the reality of what they were doing had come home to her for the first time . |
| 16 | It came home to him for the first time that what had seemed to him a trivial event , a stupid joke , was something genuinely much bigger to Andrus . |
| 17 | Later I trained a kestrel which I found much less inquisitive and more likely to come straight to me for the food . |
| 18 | Tomato deal in the riper side of UK House , of which the more familiar name of Pascal 's Bongo Massive will be the stormtrooper with most , and this release is really worth it for the AA facet , where ‘ Carried Away ’ is a slow shuffling number that could equally serve as more of a chilled refreshment . |
| 19 | ‘ You seem to have a rather inflated idea of your own attractions , Mr Sterne , ’ she muttered , scarlet-faced , kicking her suitcase towards the door , and reaching cautiously behind her for the latch . |
| 20 | This is quite a steady climb but well worth it for the superb views . |
| 21 | These can be obtained free from Marketing and Resources and are well worth it for the ideas and information contained in it . |
| 22 | Appalled by the racism she observed there , she worked energetically against it for the rest of her life , giving extensive financial support to the Black trade union movement . |
| 23 | It would be quite worth it for the expression on his face . |
| 24 | ‘ I sent him ahead of me for the six-month quarantine , and the day he got out was one of the best days of my life . ’ |
| 25 | You seem to have impressed our number-one driver as well , because he too has asked if you could be released to work closely with him for the rest of the season . |
| 26 | None of them is , nor can be , structured as to require that those in charge of enterprises in which people invest their working lives and expectations should account primarily and principally to them for the uses they make of those lives . |
| 27 | By contrast , he did inherit a destructive family situation which weighed heavily on him for the rest of his life . |
| 28 | Later , when the Northern Ireland Office was established , it relied heavily on it for the information on which it based security and political activities . |
| 29 | Maybe I 'd set him at ease by saying ‘ g'day ’ , but he looked like he 'd known me all his eight years , and leant quite steadily on me for the drive to Robert 's parents ' cottage , where we arranged photos . |
| 30 | ‘ Perhaps , ’ she answered , smiling freely at him for the first time that evening . |