Example sentences of "who [vb mod] [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Advice to Sophronia ’ describes the woman as a decayed beauty of fifty-five who ought to prepare herself for a ‘ Virgin Grave ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , I mean , you can always find someone who 'll do it for money . ’ |
| 3 | But there are those who 'll do it for pennies . |
| 4 | He 's got brown eyes and a smiling face — the sort of man who knows his way around , and who 'll fix anything for you . |
| 5 | No , that 's what I 'm saying , we 've identified one person who 'll join us for the summer . |
| 6 | They are costly and highly dangerous in the hands of those who might use them for the destruction of life . ’ |
| 7 | And he said , ‘ Do you know , all my life I 've been looking for somebody who could do everything for three pounds a week . ’ |
| 8 | Our collections would be a random sample from the wild cocoa population , to be handed over to cocoa breeders who could screen them for genes that would be useful under their own conditions : a genotype that was susceptible to witches ' broom disease might still be useful for other reasons to farmers in West Africa , where this disease does not occur . |
| 9 | The kind of crooks who 'd do anything for money , deal in guns , that sort of thing . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Some German agents must have stood out like sore thumbs ( One , codenamed ‘ Garbo ’ , could never figure out English pounds , shillings , and pence , and once reported back to Berlin from Glasgow that there were men there ‘ who would do anything for a litre of wine ’ ( p. 112 ) . ) |
| 12 | Yanto , who would do anything for anybody who asked him nicely , also had a very short fuse when it came to insults , especially in front of witnesses . |
| 13 | I decided that she had never really liked Richard and wrote her an angry letter attacking a Labour politician I knew she particularly admired , saying he did not care for Socialist principles and was no more than a cunning man who would do anything for power . |
| 14 | The simpering sort who would do anything for him and knew how to knock up gourmet dinners in fifteen minutes flat . |
| 15 | Ken 's last wish was that his coffin should be carried by six Athletico players but I could not find a single one of the bastards who would do it for less than fifty quid . |
| 16 | It was impossible not to notice how aroused he had become , and she thought of all the women who would envy her for being in this situation . |
| 17 | A man who would touch you for ten francs , and go home and paint what would one day be worth ten million . |
| 18 | There they would meet some others , who would join them for the next stage . |
| 19 | In November 1959 he found himself back in Montreal , ‘ to renew his neurotic affiliations ’ as he was to repeat endlessly to journalists ; meeting his friends and family , sometimes bumping into his uncles who would take him for expensive meals at top restaurants — such as the Ritz — and hotels ; and generally awakening and reawakening those impulses and memories which would fire his imagination and energise his mind for months to come . |
| 20 | He would marry another heiress , she knew that quite well , almost certainly one who would take him for his title , regardless of his character and conduct . |
| 21 | After they had devoured the nuts and drunk the lemonade they discussed who would write what for the Gazette . |
| 22 | To be sold primarily through VARs and system integrators who will customise it for vertical markets , InConcert serves Unix and PC users in configurations from entry-level workgroups up through the enterprise . |
| 23 | Who will check them for accuracy ? |
| 24 | And he added , ‘ Please do n't send along the young pseudo-philosopher who will tell us for the umpteenth time that , of course , he fully understands the Bank 's attitude . |
| 25 | With its self-imposed end-of-June deadline for publishing a common desktop environment specification now just six weeks off , the Common Open Software Environment firms — Hewlett-Packard Co , IBM Corp , Santa Cruz Operation Inc , Sun Microsystems Inc , Univel Inc and Unix System Laboratories Inc — are circulating ( internally ) a draft form of the ‘ Process Paper ’ which covers the scope of COSE and describes who will do what for the first of its promised offerings . |
| 26 | With its self-imposed end-of-June deadline for publishing a common desktop environment specification now just six weeks off , the Common Open Software Environment firms — Hewlett-Packard Co , IBM Corp , Santa Cruz Operation Inc , Sun Microsystems Inc , Univel Inc and Unix System Labs — are circulating ( internally ) a draft form of the ‘ Process Paper ’ which covers the scope of COSE and describes who will do what for the first of its promised offerings . |
| 27 | There are women who will do it for a glass of champagne ! |
| 28 | For the soul does not easily yield to those who will steal it for the purposes of evil … |
| 29 | And to answer Kim 's other question , he is , in my estimation , the only one who can do it for me . ’ |
| 30 | An enormous amount of skill , equipment , patience , money and sheer luck goes into the breeding of new varieties , and if it has become customary to have to be seen to be introducing six , eight , ten , a dozen or whatever new varieties every year in order to be regarded as one of the top flight nurseries , then that is what they have to do — and who can blame them for wanting to recoup their investment by selling all they can ? |