Example sentences of "you [vb base] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh you mean for those ramblers ? |
| 2 | In a large saucepan , pour the beer that you warm for 5 minutes . |
| 3 | You send for fifty tickets . |
| 4 | cos er and if you say for all enquiries please call that . |
| 5 | you know you stop for twenty minutes , put twenty minutes , and you , you just press return and it throws a map up , a map of part of England |
| 6 | If you stop for three months , I 'll give you £100 ’ — a lot of money in those days , 1948 — £1,000 now ? £2,500 ? — anyway . |
| 7 | ( h ) Declaration of trust If you act for joint buyers , prepare now the declaration of trust mentioned on taking instructions ( p17 above ) . |
| 8 | For example , if you suddenly feel unwell after eating , either cut out the food you suspect for several weeks before trying it again , or if you are confused about which food or drink may be causing the problem , go back onto the Stage I diet for a week or so . |
| 9 | There are things I have to do ; things I have to think about , Holy Father , Father Tom , things that are occupying my mind and I ca n't give you time for these things , these words , Father Tom , Your Holiness . ’ |
| 10 | Now normally , fixed returns we do use , you know like guaranteed income bonds , guaranteed er returns , but unfortunately , if you look at the Halifax list , or the er any building society list , their fixed-rate returns are very dodgy and they 're round about sort of er six and a half to seven percent at the most erm if you tie for three to four years , and they go up to about seven and a half , maybe a little bit more if you tie for five years . |
| 11 | Since general public speaking courses are not preparing you to give a particular speech , but to give speeches in general , the first task is simply to get you to stand up in a room full of people and ask you to speak about anything you like for three minutes . |
| 12 | whether we needed to go back for anything to go in the fridge or freezer If I got this page sort of full by the end of the week , people there were picking out their , they were getting tea bags and coffee and biscuits , you know for two pages full , I 've got one page full and of course with that I could get erm , packet of the Ferrera Roche |
| 13 | hundred and odd , there , but you know for two packets |
| 14 | I was in the Lion , fortnight ago , Sunday dinnertime and lads had been on this er bike ride , you know for some children |
| 15 | ‘ That 's what you get for flying antiques , ’ he said unsympathetically . |
| 16 | This straightforward facility means that you can revise , or indeed build , your presentation at the last minute — particularly if you opt for on-screen presentations , rather than foils produced by colour plotters — yet still get professional results . |
| 17 | You pay for procedural costs which include postage , telephoning , the preparation of duplicate invoices and further statements , the writing of letters , the arranging of standard follow-ups and for all the other internal procedures necessary when you are not paid . |
| 18 | By the time you 've bought them some cigarettes and given them some money for the pub and said well if there er and the car has n't got any petrol so you pay for ten pounds worth of petrol . |
| 19 | ( You shoot for three weeks , he points out , and three weeks later your work is being distributed to an audience larger than any cinema film short of Batman could hope to reach . ) |
| 20 | bollocks you go for two weeks , no you can |
| 21 | If you go for conventional curtains , you have the choice of metal or plastic rails , tracks and poles . |
| 22 | Caro said she 'd paid you rent for six months . |
| 23 | If you leave for other reasons |
| 24 | But I think that you have got to regulate these things and choose couples , like you may , as you do for adoptive children and not , just like throw in anybody these things have got to be controlled . |
| 25 | The only drawback is the expense if you fish for long sessions and take enough meat to feed continuously . |
| 26 | Oh it 's give you breakfast for fourteen days . |
| 27 | Who are the people that you blame for bad things in your life ? |
| 28 | I think in the current atmosphere of local government reform , I mean maybe there is an answer there , I mean you work for local councils but much of your role is concerned with statutory instruments if you like , statutory issues , issues which have got absolutely nothing to do with the people who are supposedly making the decisions which you 're supposed to implement , they 're made nationally , and you have to implement them . |
| 29 | It is contract it 's a monthly contract you work for three weeks for one pound sixteen shillings and at the end of the month they count all the slates you 've done during the month . |
| 30 | Knowing what a talent you have for these things , you 'll probably have it sorted out in two ticks . ’ |