Example sentences of "[n mass] [vb base] [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty per cent watch blue movies to get in the mood ; 7% smoke marijuana ; a further 7% tie their partner up ; and 6% dress up for the part . |
| 2 | Maybe a couple of dozen people show up for the party ; about half locals — mostly men , though there 's one married couple and a pair of single girls — and half travellers , New Age hippies from various scattered buses and vans parked in lay-bys and the highway equivalent of oxbows , where corners or short , twisty lengths of old roads have been replaced with more direct stretches . |
| 3 | Why do so many people breed just for the hell of it ? |
| 4 | His stars are real , the issues are real and , yes , the pauses those emotional , heart-felt mental delays when people open up for the cameras they , too , are so very , very real . |
| 5 | ‘ Stockton North people go more for the Conservatism of Macleod and Macmillan , ’ he said . |
| 6 | When people go out for the night they like to come away with being entertained . |
| 7 | Sales take off for the jet lag store |
| 8 | Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu also announced its results recently , reporting a 7% increase worldwide for the year to 30 September 1992 to $4.8bn , as did Coopers & Lybrand , which managed a 7.4% rise to $5.3bn . |
| 9 | He seems mystified by the fact that , as he says , ‘ most people come here for the dancing and the music . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ When you travel round the world , and being brought up in a family like mine , you learn that what happens on the field is actually very important to people elsewhere , and you feel , perhaps not so much a sense of responsibility , as a sense of focus in which people identify nationally for the best kind of reasons , and are made aware of who they are and what they came from . |
| 11 | From this , it may be possible to determine clearly which media work best for the brand , and this , obviously , must influence any new plans . |