Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Older people who have fewer than eight main meals each week , or who go for long periods of the day without food , are considered to be especially at risk . |
| 2 | The second ace is the country 's near-monopoly of traditional traffic-free villages — or what pass for traffic-free villages in these days of electric taxis and buses . |
| 3 | You bought it and bought it , that 's it , not same as they do with yeah with them looking for bloody sponsors unheard and them looking for bloody sponsors eh ? |
| 4 | Arthur and I went for long walks — and that little village was the best place in the world . |
| 5 | He got a lot of Mr. Andrew 's money , too — I know a lot more than people think I do — and instead of being put aside for new ships it went into silly things like this grand building and I daresay for fat salaries for some people . |
| 6 | They are people striving for purpose and meaning in circumstances that are usually much less than ideal and which call for constant adjustment , adaptation and redefinition . |
| 7 | And you wait for other people an that and and you do n't leave that 's all I wo n't do that again , . |
| 8 | Suddenly she was ravenous , and she knew for sure that the cupboard held only labour-intensive proper food . |
| 9 | Anne had already trimmed down to a reasonable weight with the help of Weight Watchers , and she pleaded for new ideas to strengthen her resolve . |
| 10 | She suspected that the good doctor might be laying it on a little thick , but she would not be put off , and said in her stiffest voice , ‘ Yes , I understand all that , and I am prepared to work hard , ’ and she added for good measure , ‘ You need not worry about followers . |
| 11 | Playing up to it , he gives an autograph and we board for free . |
| 12 | The result is an absence of diversity — a key requirement for a truly representative press and one suited for political democracy . |
| 13 | Charles was just getting out of his bath and was about to put on again the same clothes he had taken off beforehand , when suddenly , there at the gates were envoys bringing from Aquitaine a crown and all the royal gear , and everything needed for holy rites ! |
| 14 | They 're ambitious and they strive for upward social mobility . |
| 15 | Their findings therefore seemed puzzling and they looked for possible explanations . |
| 16 | And he played for old Mrs Lark . |
| 17 | Sir Rhodes urged Mr Patten to reduce poll tax levels in London by imposing a cap of £300 per adult , and he asked for special help for those people living in low rateable value homes built between 1860 and 1930 . |
| 18 | Cos I 've still got a bit of a throat and it said for sore throats too if you want . |
| 19 | This study goes at least some way towards overcoming the problems of other work discussed by Box and Hale ( 1986 , pp. 74–5 ) , in that it relies on self-reported victimisation rather than police figures on recorded crime , and it controls for other socio-demographic variables . |
| 20 | No one must be false to that oath , but in order to return a collective verdict , the verdict of you all , there must necessarily be argument , and a certain amount of give and take and adjustment of views within the scope of the oath you have taken , and it makes for great public inconvenience and expense if jurors can not agree owing to the unwillingness of one of their number to listen to the arguments of the rest . |
| 21 | This way of working is often frustrating for me , of course , and it makes for economic inefficiency . |
| 22 | This is Bennett 's story and it makes for fascinating reading . |
| 23 | Infected programmes activate the virus when started up and it looks for other programmes to infect . |
| 24 | This contrast is used to explain why the Japanese are said to feel less class conscious than Westerners because vertical loyalties within companies , say , are more important than horizontal relations with other people who occupy the same position but who work for different companies . |
| 25 | It seems we got a irregularity here — Mr Stein knows he goin' to be workin' here long-term but he apply for short-term only . ’ |
| 26 | Timidity in pop will get you nowhere , but it makes for great listening . |