Example sentences of "be impossible [prep] [pers pn] [to-vb] a " in BNC.

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1 With the spring shows only a couple of months away , it would be impossible for me to appoint a replacement who could get a collection ready in time . ’
2 Given our record , I 'd imagined that it would be impossible for us to spend a night under the same roof without spending it together .
3 It is impossible , in many ways , for somebody who is erm on benefit and living in independent accommodation with a private landlord often it 's impossible for them to get a job and then cover their rent , so they ca n't get a job .
4 She wrote to him quite sharply , not caring who read her letter , that : — it is impossible for me to post a gun as you ought to know you foolish man for what would the post office officials think were I to turn up with a gun to send ?
5 Indeed it is impossible for us to imagine a social system operated by human beings which was not ordered by language ; human culture , as we know it , could not have been invented by a society of deaf mutes .
6 And I thought you felt as I did , that it was impossible for you to have a child . ’
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