Example sentences of "[indef pn] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ God , Nurse , ’ Ted exclaimed virtuously , ‘ There 's nothing for a hot-blooded sinner like me to do when he sees you coming , except close his eyes and pray for continence . ’ |
| 2 | Riven blinked , and realised he had been staring at nothing for a long minute . |
| 3 | We do n't say nothing for a long time . |
| 4 | She said nothing for a long time , then shook her head . |
| 5 | Nothing for a long time like the five hundred . |
| 6 | But of course these benefits did nothing for the increasing number of lone mothers who were not widows but who were unmarried or , more commonly , divorced or separated . |
| 7 | ‘ I shall do nothing for the simple reason that — knowing Doreen — it would be a waste of time and effort . |
| 8 | When the adjective is one which qualifies sense , one would expect the altered phrase to have become quite useless — perhaps even to be designated as ungrammatical — precisely because such adjectives require exhibition of the properties involved in the noun in order to have their own effect , by combining with those properties ; so , if the noun or pronoun head of the phrase merely indicates entity-hood without mentioning any properties , there is nothing for the sense-qualifying adjective to work on . |
| 9 | Never get bored with the fact that you 've been with someone for a long time , it 's a good thing , not a bad thing . |
| 10 | If you would like to nominate someone for a future issue , send the details to at . |
| 11 | This necessity for innate leadership qualities may affect these managers judgement when choosing someone for a supervisory job . |
| 12 | They feel nothing about seriously mutilating someone for a trivial reason . |
| 13 | The earlier cases do not make any reference to the possibility of arresting someone for the sole purpose of questioning him or her with a view to obtaining a confession . |
| 14 | There 's always that barrier to be got over , when you are going to sleep with someone for the first time , and I just thought it would be a good time to get it over with . |
| 15 | When you meet someone for the first time , that person can |
| 16 | For I am on equal terms with someone for the first time in my life . |
| 17 | So we did the double over someone for the first time since beating Sheff United in the championship winning game . |
| 18 | As in all societies , ritual is particularly important when meeting someone for the first time . |
| 19 | Or , when the , no , when I see , I meet someone for the first time . |
| 20 | And they say that 's plenty for a healthy business . |
| 21 | The figures of the main characters of the Nativity are then placed on it along with the pots of cereals , now full of green sprouts which symbolize fertility and plenty for the coming year . |
| 22 | The British have fallen in love with this Mediterranean island because it has everything for a perfect holiday : sunny skies , glorious beaches , bustling resorts , friendly people , fascinating sights and beautiful countryside . |
| 23 | He guessed that was how she would always be , blocking out everything for the preferred world of her own creation until an idea was spent . |
| 24 | It may prove too hard , something for a future generation ’ . |
| 25 | He was a guy who could be something for a brief period of time and then he vanished like the spirit he was impersonating . |
| 26 | We train to do something for a particular purpose , to develop the performance of specific tasks or skills . |
| 27 | It is NOT necessary to fill in something for every single category . |
| 28 | Brody , for example , has written something for the first issue . ’ |
| 29 | I mean , it needs to perhaps perhaps they can do something for the first couple |
| 30 | In this journey , in which we are all engaged , it is photography which has allowed him to achieve something for the first time without struggling — given him a means of craft and communication which feels right and matches his natural capacities as well as being able to respond to his intuition . |