Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imagine my amazement when , on my first day in the new set-up , I found that everyone fought for attention by dramatizing every event . |
| 2 | and within the last say twenty five years there 's been a dramatic change in the young people 's way of thinking , maybe more of them have gone to university than they did the previous twenty five years and that there is such a difference now than there was that I mean for instance if there was a war there would n't , there would be far more conscientious objectors than there ever was before far more than erm young man saying no I 'm going to fight for my country , be patriotic I do n't think you would find , for instance , the youth of this country so patriotic as they was in the last war , your country needs you . |
| 3 | Medical confidentiality you 're you 're just sitting there with bloody a private conversation we that I went for treatment with my doctor , and and the recommendations that she 's given me in , well well what 's the point er what er what 's going on ? |
| 4 | We had a succession of God-awful nannies we could n't afford — Clemence 's books had n't started to sell at that point — but the upshot was that I left for work late , came home early . |
| 5 | You see , God 's grace is provided in Jesus Christ all that I need for salvation . |
| 6 | So God 's grace is provided in Jesus Christ , all that I need for salvation and for a life that will please God . |
| 7 | Sometimes at work I feel I have had enough and I am overwhelmed by the material so that I thirst for meditation which can be a rededication and a balancing of our lives . |
| 8 | So it is to them , the creators of American literature , that I look for clarification about the invention and effect of Africanism in the United States . |
| 9 | " I 've got a copper bracelet on , that I wear for rheumatism , " she said , " will that affect your reading ? " |
| 10 | She did nothing much about it — Eismark was still just somebody in shipping , not a politician — and it was only when he came onto the Secretariat that she asked for money to do some more work about it . ’ |
| 11 | He gazed at her in silence that she took for acceptance . |
| 12 | She says that she screamed for help — another two minutes and the twins would have died because of all the smoke and flames . |
| 13 | He slammed his body into hers , bending her back , kissing her so hard that she fought for breath . |
| 14 | When she tells us that she left for work , we assume that she has dressed for the outside world . |
| 15 | Ingrid feels more influenced by painters like Sonya Delaunay and Picasso , and by the fragments of colours and textures that she collects for reference . |
| 16 | The author also points out that her subject had almost no sense of humour or capacity for original thought , that she thirsted for power , and that ‘ Righteousness was what Annie earnestly desired for others … she felt no lack of it herself . ’ |
| 17 | See these socks that she bought for Jade |
| 18 | Is it all your own milk that you use for cheese ? |
| 19 | It 's nice to have an estimator represented on the course because I think that you 'll admit that people do put some thought into this and the , the rates that you use for labour and plant , you try to make realistic . |
| 20 | I enclose the completed form that you mentioned for hire of the school classroom for Parish Council meetings . |
| 21 | Because their interiors perfectly reflect the fine reproduction pine furniture that you find for sale in them today . |
| 22 | Some advisers suggest that you look to past precedents within the company ; others recommend that you gear your expectations to the financial sum that you expect to require in order to exist in reasonable comfort until another job comes along ; others simply suggest that you look for payment of a year 's full salary . |
| 23 | So , as far as the , the erm , erm , report is concerned er , if I 've got to make a recommendation , because obviously people have got different views on this one , it would be in fact that we go for total er , information so that people can make up their own minds , and if , and it might be wrong , but they can exercise their own prejudices . |
| 24 | Er but we try and eli eliminate the poorer companies , we try and make sure that we go for strength and security , as much as return . |
| 25 | On the one hand , it is clear that we depend for survival upon our bodies , whereas we may not want to say that God depends upon the world for survival . |
| 26 | For example , we have found that we can make good businesses by selling services that we developed for use in our own company . |
| 27 | But is it not a fact in the real world that we prepare for war during peacetime by keeping our armed forces equipped and ready , rather than disbanding them and waiting until war breaks out before beginning to re-arm and train new forces ? |
| 28 | I did n't know at that time what the content of the exhibition was because Sarah who organised it all had to write to lots of people and arrange the loans and you know it is fairly recently that we discovered for example the tate would lend , their pictures because its very rare that they do , erm , and , so we thought the next best thing , when I discovered the change of dates would be to have slides of the pictures that Sue was using , but erm oh dear then wonderful that Sue was using a another book and this term allocated and I was n't able to get the slides she picked , it was my fault that they 're not on slide due to the amount of time that we had to do this . |
| 29 | Delete this reference , point four does not apply to access by telephone , take up Carolines point that we need for access when we 've got through the other continuous a brief statement which says , the project planning procedure does n't totally apply until . |
| 30 | It 's now , in our thirties , that we look for change . |