For

I had to stay with my wicked stepmother, for I had nowhere else to go.

[…]Dismount thy tuck, be yare in thy preparation, for thy assailant is quick, skillful and deadly.

[…]nor is there found, in sea or on land, a sweeter or pleasanter of gifts than she; for she is prime in comeliness and seemlihead of face and symmetrical shape of perfect grace; her check is ruddy dight, her brow flower white, her teeth gem-bright, her eyes blackest black and whitest white, her hips of heavy weight, her waist slight and her favour exquisite.

"By means of the Golden Cap I shall command the Winged Monkeys to carry you to the gates of the Emerald City," said Glinda, "for it would be a shame to deprive the people of so wonderful a ruler."

Let me root, root, root for the home team, / If they don't win, it's a shame. / For it's one, two, three strikes, you're out, / At the old ball game.

The astronauts headed for the moon.

Run for the hills!

He was headed for the door when he remembered.

Wee ſailed from Peru, (where wee had continued by the ſpace of one whole yeare,) for China and Iapan, by the South Sea; [...]

I have something for you.

Everything I do, I do for you.

We're having a birthday party for Janet.

The mayor gave a speech for the charity gala.

You, telling me the things you're gonna do for me.

I’ll strike a blow for you.

If having to bag the groceries correctly is more than you can handle, then this isn't the job for you.

This is a new bell for my bicycle.

The cake is for Tom and Helen's anniversary.

This medicine is for your cough.

These apples here are for eating. The rest are for throwing away.

I'll buy something for killing cockroaches. We must find something to kill them all.

All those for the motion, raise your hands.

Who's for ice-cream?

I'm for going by train

Ten voted for, and three against.

"I'll go round presently, and pay our friend off." Rather alarmed by this summary action, I was for a little delay, and even hinted that our friend himself might be difficult to deal with.

He wouldn't apologize; and just for that, she refused to help him.

He looks better for having lost weight.

She was the worse for drink.

I like her for lots of reasons.

I jumped for joy.

with fiery eyes sparkling for very wrath

"A summerly day for you," said my host; "You ought to be here in winter. It is impossible then to get out of the doors for the snow and wind. Ugh! dreadful weather!"

I could not see his hands, for the thick gloves he wore, and his face was partially concealed by a red woollen comforter; but his entire appearance and manners tallied with what I had seen of Yorkshire farmerhood.

I need to spray my house for termites.

Make way for the president!

Clear the shelves for our new Christmas stock!

Stand by for your cue.

Prepare for battle.

They swept the area for enemy operatives.

Police combed his flat for clues.

I've lived here for three years.

They fought for days over a silly pencil.

The store is closed for the day.

To guide the sun's bright chariot for a day.

I can see for miles.

For many miles about / There's scarce a bush.

It seems unreasonable for our boss to withhold our wages.

I don't think it's a good idea for you and me to meet.

For you and me to meet is not a good idea because I'm not eager for it to be a success.

I will stand in for him.

I speak for the Prime Minister.

I used a hay bale for a bed.

He's got a turnip for a brain.

I got five hundred pounds for that old car!

He matched me blow for blow.

And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

I am aiming for completion by the end of business Thursday.

He's going for his doctorate.

Do you want to go for coffee?

People all over Greece looked to Delphi for answers.

After a split second of hesitation, the second baseman leaped for the ball—or, rather, stumbled for it.

Can you go to the store for some eggs?

I'm saving up for a car.

Don't wait for an answer.

What did he ask you for?

All this sun spoils me for vacations in the far North.

For we would have you know it, / The loſs will fall on us, not on the Poet: / For he writes not for money, nor for praiſe, / Nor to be call'd a Wit, nor to wear Bayes: […]

Fair for its day.

She's spry for an old lady.

He's very mature, for a two-year-old.

Don't take me for a fool.

17th century Abraham Cowley, Of Wit We take a falling meteor for a star.

if a man can be persuaded and fully assured of anything for a truth without having examined, what is there that he may not embrace for truth ?

Most of our ingenious young men take up some cry'd-up English poet for their model.

But let her go for an ungrateful woman.

They knew him for a stranger.

I would advise anyone who does not share its politics — surely the great majority of gay men and lesbians — to shun NOLAG for the anachronistic zombie it is.

For all his expensive education, he didn't seem very bright.

"You must keep your head. There is still hope." "Hope!" "Yes; plentiful hope -- for all this destruction!"

1892 August 6, "The Unbidden Guest", in Charles Dickens, Jr. (editor), All the Year Round, page 133, Mr. Joseph Blenkinshaw was perhaps not worth quite so much as was reported; but for all that he was a very wealthy man […]

For all his faults, there had been something lofty and great about him - as a judge, as a patron of education, as a builder, as an international figure.

O for the wings of a dove.

Ah! for wings to soar …

And now for a slap-up meal!

O For a Muſe of Fire, that would aſcend / The brighteſt Heauen of Inuention :

Oh! but to breathe the air / By their side under summer skies! To watch the blush on their cheeks, / The light in their liquid eyes. / Oh! but for one short hour, / To whisper a word of love; […]

Go scuba diving? For one thing, I can't even swim.

For another, we don't have any equipment.

He is named for his grandfather.

He totally screwed up that project. Now he's surely for the sack.

In term of base hits, Jones was three for four on the day

At close of play, England were 305 for 3.

We'll have a bib, for spoiling of thy doublet.

He took the swing shift for he could get more overtime.

to account for one's whereabouts    to care for a relative    to settle for second best    to allow for mistakes

“'Ugh—I'll not be able for get up. Send for M'sieu le Curé—I'll be goin' for die for sure.'

[It was a] firs rate place for shoot a woodcocks, I tell you. [...] I say [it] wass no use for spen money. [...] An I say in "So wass I. I see lot of sy-pokes fly up an twist off like screw-cork an spit whistle, but I wass'nt able for get aim on him."

"She say that when nigger people step out o' they place and start for rub shoulders with Bacra, trouble just 'round the corner."