Example sentences of "[indef pn] for [Wh det] [pers pn] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was everything for which he could have asked . |
| 2 | This might help them to see his lack of social responsiveness as a symptom of his illness and something for which they should make allowances rather than as an unfriendly act or a personal slight on their company . |
| 3 | There were ripples of self-satisfied laughter , as if to have such a mad dream was something for which they could congratulate themselves . |
| 4 | A whole week in Paris at Easter seemed to her something for which she would willingly have sold her soul . |
| 5 | I have what to you may seem a small problem but one for which I can find no reason . |
| 6 | These developed from the legal concept of ultra vires ( beyond the strength ) which , since the mid nineteenth century , had prohibited local councils from doing anything for which they could not show precise legal authority . |