Example sentences of "[vb infin] [indef pn] for the [noun] " 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 | ‘ Would n't it buy something for the girls here or put someone through school even if you did n't want to take it for yourself ? |
| 4 | That will save money and expense , but the question is , will it guarantee anything for the pensioners themselves ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Making it hard for directors to talk to outsiders will also do nothing for the cause of good management . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Collectors would give anything for the chance to hear him project his art to us from the clarity of a recording studio . |
| 11 | During much of the book you do not feel anything for the androids , but as you see their struggle for survival and begin to sense that they have gained the feelings that humans are losing , you realise the irony of the book . |
| 12 | First , and obviously , does it do anything for the sufferer 's disease ? |
| 13 | It did n't do anything for the tenants of this city or did n't put any new proposals forward . |
| 14 | would do anything for the crack |
| 15 | ‘ You know that I 'll do anything for the children . |
| 16 | No , how about the men , do you do anything for the men ? |
| 17 | You got ta do anything for the kids parties this year or no ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She says she 'll do anything for the safety of the children . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The day will include a fashion show and the exhibition will feature everything for the machine knitter . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | If you do exercise one for the time being do n't worry about that one , exercise three . |
| 26 | She lived for occasions and would not miss one for the world . |
| 27 | Saints coach Mike McClennan enthused : ‘ With McCracken and Connolly in the centres we 'll have something for the ladies and something for the opposition. ! |
| 28 | SPAG currently has a PSI code set for X400 products , and says it will have one for the FTAM file transfer by year-end . |
| 29 | All police forces in the region are saying do n't have one for the road — have none for the road . |
| 30 | And you just But as we were saying er talking to Janet afterwards there was another little one down at the side , erm mum was getting a bit irate with him , but you see they do n't take anything for the children to do . |