Example sentences of "for [pron] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | A Kha-Khan did not ask ; he commanded , and it was left simply for everyone else to obey . |
2 | Next I ask myself , does one congratulate oneself on getting married or not ? — or is that left for everyone else to do ? |
3 | It was Greg Carey , and as if his entrance was a cue for everyone else to appear , the Christmas Eve cocktail party was in full swing within ten minutes . |
4 | He is content for everyone else to have their say first , though his everyday associates and friends respect his views too much to let him get away with that too often . |
5 | And there were plenty left over for everyone else to have a taste , too . |
6 | Shrewsbury by the way are a third division team , they 're about eighth or ninth in the table so er a great chance for them tonight to cause a major upset . |
7 | Wynne-Jones 's knowledge of the woodland realm was far too useful for them simply to abandon him and race furiously for the north . |
8 | When people are used to , say , £1 of their limited housekeeping money going each Friday to nice Mr Jones when he calls , it must be very difficult for them even to consider diverting that money into a different spending channel which would instead involve them — rather than Mr Jones — in all the work of paying it in . |
9 | It took about nine days for them completely to stop eating green eggs , but they continued to enjoy the ordinary white egg . |
10 | Nor is there any power for them either to require details from people in order to keep a register or to require people to continue to notify them of changes in any register . |
11 | While I was doing that all the drums I left last week for them just to do they had n't done . |
12 | I feel that there should be four or five other tournaments around the country to play in order for them just to get to the national championships . |
13 | Would it be possible for them also to prune this tree hard back so the light can be seen . |
14 | Unless low income-earners can achieve , at a stroke , a very large rise in earnings and jump right out of the trap , it is virtually impossible for them significantly to improve their situation . |
15 | As we shall see in the next chapter , there are those who believe that management have often adopted forms of work organisation which give rise to unsatisfying jobs because it is cheaper for them so to do . |
16 | Whilst in many cases firms with more than 20 partners will for reasons of publicity wish to set out their names on the firm 's documentation , there is no compulsion for them so to do ( and beyond a certain number it obviously becomes impracticable ) . |
17 | But the reality is that the court has not given to doctors any right that they did not previously have : it has merely declined to deprive them of a power which it is for them alone to exercise . |
18 | If the little creatures were really blank paper at birth , nobody would ever have the slightest difficulty in writing on them whatever their particular culture required , and it would be impossible for them ever to surprise their elders by unexpected conduct . |
19 | ‘ The best thing for all of us is for me just to go back to London . |
20 | It would have been easy for me just to put off the difficult decisions we need to take , but I must do what is right for this country . |
21 | ‘ It 's quite enough for me just to know that you 're going . ’ |
22 | It is not for me here to try to account for the common features of movements so different in nature as those we have mentioned . |
23 | For me , as a lover , as a person , as a man , it 's not enough for me only to give — I want it back as well . |
24 | With the leave of the House , it remains for me only to thank the Select Committee on Energy for allowing us to hear the Government 's reply . |
25 | The bedroom doors of Darlington Hall are of a certain thickness and I could by no means hear complete exchanges ; consequently , it is hard for me now to recall precisely what I overheard , just as , indeed , it was for me later that same evening when I reported to his lordship on the matter . |
26 | She is silently waiting for me now to understand the nature of what she is offering me . |
27 | I must apologize for this one , it 's hard for me sometimes to understand it as well . |
28 | There may conceivably be cases where it is all right for someone willingly to allow themselves to be treated as a means . |
29 | Organization can help to overcome the isolation , the loneliness , all too often felt by the would-be innovatory teacher , the need for someone else to talk things over with , plan with , compare notes with . |
30 | I 'm not sure , but I just thought , I 'm just paying for someone else to go on that holiday . |