Example sentences of "[vb infin] [indef pn] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , clearly we 've got enough op , it would seem that if we could recruit somebody for the rest of this year , and er which would help us get our times down , if in if in fact we were able to recruit somebody who was instantly productive , which is not all that likely . |
| 2 | : 25mm x 5mm ( 1in x ¼in ) by the width of the blind less 20mm ( ¾in ) ; you will need one for the base of the blind and one for each channel . |
| 3 | Firstly , I have been in football management long enough to know that team changes at this late stage will do nothing for the confidence of existing players . |
| 4 | Both thorns are tolerant of pollution and are tough enough to grow in open , exposed seaside sites regularly raked over by salt-laden winds , although these of course will do nothing for the autumn display . |
| 5 | Making it hard for directors to talk to outsiders will also do nothing for the cause of good management . |
| 6 | It is true that right at the end , in October 1097 , when Anselm was on the point of leaving England , Eadmer reports him as saying to the Canterbury monks : ‘ I go willingly , trusting in God 's mercy that my journey will do something for the liberty of the Church in future times . ’ |
| 7 | Harold Macmillan was by no means alone at that time in looking forward to a government of Mosley and the younger men who would do something for the country at last . |
| 8 | Collectors would give anything for the chance to hear him project his art to us from the clarity of a recording studio . |
| 9 | First , and obviously , does it do anything for the sufferer 's disease ? |
| 10 | would do anything for the crack |
| 11 | Side by side with Voltaire and Kant , with their admiration of constructive and public-spirited autocrats , were others such as Helvétius , Holbach , Diderot and Rousseau , who refused to believe that this form of rule , however ‘ enlightened ’ , could do anything for the liberation of the individual subject . |
| 12 | She says she 'll do anything for the safety of the children . |
| 13 | I 'm not particularly fond of the control layout , either ; all the pots in a row look a bit ‘ lumpy ’ and do n't do anything for the line of the body . |
| 14 | Riven could see nothing for the water in his eyes , but when the dark shape of the hull loomed up he pushed Madra towards it . |
| 15 | And then , when she looked at the high terrace with its pots of trailing geraniums , she could see nothing for the shadow was so intense — not the pale blob of a face or the movement of a hand — but she was suddenly as sure as she could be of anything that someone was standing there , looking down , waiting for them to get out of the car and watching them . |
| 16 | The day will include a fashion show and the exhibition will feature everything for the machine knitter . |
| 17 | There are a number of interrelated reasons , then , why , when one paradigm competes with another ; there is no logically compelling argument that dictates that a rational scientist should abandon one for the other . |
| 18 | If you do exercise one for the time being do n't worry about that one , exercise three . |
| 19 | She lived for occasions and would not miss one for the world . |
| 20 | SPAG currently has a PSI code set for X400 products , and says it will have one for the FTAM file transfer by year-end . |
| 21 | All police forces in the region are saying do n't have one for the road — have none for the road . |
| 22 | You 've got ta go one for the other . |
| 23 | No , you do n't get , you do n't get anything for the membership ! |
| 24 | A good reputation will be merely a means to winning what I want from others ; I shall care nothing for the respect or contempt of people who can not help or ham me , and find no pleasure in the prospect of millions seeing my face on television or reading my books after I am dead . |
| 25 | Agnes sighed , then bit on the front of her forefinger before she turned to Jessie again and said , ‘ Look ; if you 're so sure he 'll turn up , we 'll say nothing for the time being . |
| 26 | ‘ You 'll say nothing for the moment , ’ said Miss Thorne . |
| 27 | ‘ Though your Majesty 's affections may be very well known as to religion , ’ he urged , ‘ yet it may be expected that you should say something for the world 's satisfaction . ’ |
| 28 | Not gon na say anything for the microphone . |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't say anything for the moment Mo . |