Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My course will eventually qualify me for a good career but meanwhile I 'm struggling on an allowance . |
| 2 | Yeah , but you can only buy them for a little while in the year |
| 3 | I discovered he was teething — the sucking made his gums sore so he could only do it for a short time . |
| 4 | I said if I 've got to do a dozen sausage rolls for one I 'd better do them for the others . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Mere faith in an idea can only sustain it for a limited time especially when others are required to act upon that faith . |
| 7 | Sometimes you could only have them for a day or two before passing them on . |
| 8 | I 'll always honour and obey you , Harry , and I 'll do anything you say or go anywhere you want if you 'll only take me for a wife . " |
| 9 | When I first went , I thought I 'd only get them for a couple of weeks at the most . |
| 10 | He might be my best friend but he will treat me the same as any other player and will only pick me for a Test if I am bowling well . |
| 11 | 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 " . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd better reimburse you for the sweets ’ Vernon insisted , in a tight unfriendly voice . |
| 13 | Can I just borrow you for a few moments ? |
| 14 | I du n no but I got a wonderful hand look wha I 'll just show you for a start , cos I 'm putting that in the box . |
| 15 | ‘ He can not just divorce you for no reason . ’ |
| 16 | A chocolate bar or an ice-cream , or sometimes he 'd just take them for a walk . |
| 17 | whatever it is , deflate , and er guy come round , no problems , no problems with it , well I mean the head gasket 's gone and there 's a hole near the wing and bald tyre on it but mechanically it 's , this guy comes round to look at it , I mean he 's been driving it from Plymouth , he 's in the navy , up and down here , bloke comes round , yeah no problem , come on round mate , come and have a look at it , look round it , says yeah I like this can I just take it for a drive ? |
| 18 | I would just leave it for a while |
| 19 | Let's just leave it for the moment , let's just leave it for the moment . |
| 20 | Let's just leave it for the moment , let's just leave it for the moment . |
| 21 | With × 12 the haze is much more pronounced , and an unwary observer could easily mistake it for a comet . |
| 22 | But he said we wo n't charge you the daily rate , we 'll just charge you for the job . |
| 23 | The letter is interesting , though , for the light it casts on his rooted dread of mental imbalance , and on his horrified feeling that the unsatisfactory relations which had existed between himself and his father since eariy adolescence might somehow mar him for the rest of his life : You and I are both qualified for it [ neurosis ] because we were both afraid of our fathers as children . |
| 24 | You may also be able to get legal insurance as an add-on to a household policy for as little as £12.50 per year , but it may not always cover you for a battle with the boss , so check before you buy |
| 25 | No man , however enslaved to beauty , would ever carry it for a woman . |
| 26 | For example , although we do not have in English the grammaticalization of the levels of respect that exist in Javanese , we do have means of expressing degrees of respect , largely by choices in the use of expressions : thus ( 31 ) would generally be a more polite request than ( 30 ) : ( 30 ) I want to see you for a moment ( 31 ) I wondered if I could possibly see you for a moment So by taking at first just the grammaticalized or encoded features of context in the world 's languages , we would have both something like a " discovery procedure " for relevant functions of language , and a constraint on the relatively vacuous theorizing that often attends speculation about the " functions of speech " . |
| 27 | ‘ We thought we were going to die ’ , said Rene' who , with Mario , presented wallets to each crew member on duty that day , embossed in gold with the words ‘ We will always remember you for the action on 15/5/93 . ’ |
| 28 | She could hardly thank them for the tears in her eyes . |
| 29 | With a figure like that one would hardly take her for a chips and stodge consumer . |
| 30 | * The question may not directly ask you for a conclusion , but give one anyway . |