Example sentences of "for [indef pn] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The twins ’ daddy has paid for you and me , Mr Breakspear , and for everyone else on board this boat , but even with all that money and all this boat , we still might not succeed with them . ’ |
| 2 | Mark uses the story to introduce the fact that the message of the Gospel is not only for the Jews but is for everyone regardless of race . |
| 3 | But we 're looking for something well in excess of a hundred hectares outside the city boundaries and essentially in the greenbelt . |
| 4 | ‘ People were looking for something closer to nature than races like the Paris-Dakar . ’ |
| 5 | And we all nodded at him : the man of finance , the man of accounts , the man of law , we all nodded at him over the polished table that like a still sheet of brown water reflected our faces , lined , wrinkled ; our faces marked by toil , by deceptions , by success , by love ; our weary eyes looking still , looking always , looking anxiously for something out of life , that while it is expected is already gone — has passed unseen , in a sigh , in a flash — together with the youth , with the strength , with the romance of illusions . |
| 6 | Maria Iñes was dumpy and talkative ; Maria Teresa was dark and very like João , though not quite so good looking , and Maria de Graça was taller , plainer , and so intent upon winning herself a place in Heaven that she had little conversation for anyone apart from Padre Jorge , an oily man with plump little hands and a great anxiety to be first to agree with Dom João in everything he said . |
| 7 | Conduct money must be sufficient to cover cost of travelling each way and , in addition , a sum specified currently as £15.00 for a police officer or £21.50 for anyone else for compensation for loss of time , but there is provision for increase and updating ; the amounts are specified in the costs appendices . |
| 8 | Police said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths . |
| 9 | Police are not looking for anyone else in connection with the killings . |
| 10 | Police said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the discovery . |
| 11 | ‘ We are treating this as murder , but we are not looking for anyone else in connection with it , ’ an RUC spokesman said . |
| 12 | Cleveland Police have said they are not looking for anyone else in connection with the murder and are not reopening the case . |
| 13 | Police investigating the cause of a suspicious house fire in which a 33-year-old man died said yesterday ( Wed ) they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident . |
| 14 | Police are not looking for anyone else in connection with their deaths . |
| 15 | Det Supt Ken Woodward , who led the murder investigation , said outside court : ‘ We are not looking for anyone else in connection with this inquiry unless anything new comes up . |
| 16 | Can I ask madam chairman , is it is it for anything else except football ? |
| 17 | The chase and the conquest take so much time and energy that there is often little room for anything else in life . |
| 18 | Neither Rita nor Tom used the garden for anything apart from mowing and weeding . |
| 19 | Retreating to the edge of the clearing , he stood for a full five minutes , listening intently to the night sounds for anything out of place . |