Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] for [pron] in " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ It 's fun having a boss like you , though , and I know I 'll enjoy working for you in Santa Barbara . ’ |
2 | ‘ But he 'd never think to look for me in such company . ’ |
3 | Accepting that you will need to provide either training or re-training for your existing staff means that you will remember to budget for it in the overall cost of the system . |
4 | When I heard he was missing , I did what he would have done for me in similar circumstances . |
5 | But Crilly says he needs the money he should have gotten for them in Dublin . |
6 | You do n't have to fish for it in your pocket as you see trouble coming . |
7 | Had the examiner wanted such a discussion he would have asked for it in a separate part of the question . |
8 | There was once a poor shoemaker who had three fine strong sons and two pretty daughters and a third , who could do nothing well , who shivered plates and tangled her spinning , who curdled milk , could not get butter to come , nor set a fire so that smoke did not pour into the room , a useless , hopeless , dreaming daughter , to whom her mother would often say that she should try to fend for herself in the wild wood , and then she would know the value of listening to advice , and of doing things properly . |
9 | That is what you would have paid for it in 1982 . |
10 | In terms of cost effectiveness , a single Ventura/VT600 installation applied to Classical Music should have paid for itself in eight months — costed against the savings in typesetting . |
11 | ‘ The others will come looking for it in the morning , ’ Grimma warned . |
12 | The realisation of her feelings for Rourke had come as a shock , the more so because there was no chance he would ever come to care for her in return . |
13 | Do I get paid for it in something ? |
14 | Having dug its way out of the compost heap , it must immediately start to fend for itself in the hostile world of the mallee scrub . |