Example sentences of "[adj] for [art] [noun pl] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zaidie 's deposition , it should be added , contained a statement that about 20 or 21 December 1986 , on Zaidie 's return from his honeymoon in Miami , the defendant had telephoned him and had said he was sorry for the threats he had made against the lives of Zaidie and Paulette . |
| 2 | I do n't know wen I 'll see you agen , but I 'm sorry for the things I did , and I 'm ashamd . |
| 3 | I felt sorry for the gypsies you know in Cross Street |
| 4 | I feel sorry for the chaps who discover the same problem in their 20s . ’ |
| 5 | By the end of the evening I had come to feel sorry for the waiters who had so debased themselves by their participation in the comedy ; not because they were cheating the state , but because they never responded to anyone except as an object , a part of the system in which they were trapped . |
| 6 | I feel sorry for the fans who have travelled all this way to see that . ’ |
| 7 | Erm that 's putting it bluntly because erm obviously being a volunteer is a sort of two way thing , we could n't run without volunteers , we 're very grateful for the ones we 've got but So it 's clearly a matter of whether you decide and whether you like the way we like to run things or or not . |
| 8 | ‘ We are very grateful for the donations we receive from charitable organisations like BLISS , but in the last two to three years there has been an additional £800,000 investment in special baby care units from Mersey region . ’ |
| 9 | When Edward suggested they dance Sally was grateful for the lessons she had endured in the school gymnasium with Miss Smart the games teacher yelling ‘ slow , slow , quick quick , slow ’ in time to the music . |
| 10 | Her little shriek was cut off with unerring accuracy by the simple expedient of covering her mouth with his , and she gave up her struggles and surrendered , her foolish heart only too grateful for the crumbs he offered . |
| 11 | It is a shocking scene , because it starts by involving the audience in its raw eroticism and then turns on them , so that they feel guilty for the stirrings they have inevitably been experiencing . |
| 12 | a paragraph at the end of one of the chapters and , I ca n't remember the exact words but in , what it meant was that for the parents who do restrain the children from what they watch |
| 13 | My Lords , I agree with my noble and learned friend , Lord Keith of Kinkel , whose draft speech I have had the opportunity to read , that for the reasons he gives the appeal should be allowed and the questions answered in the way he proposes . |
| 14 | First thing is that they would n't actually be able to do that for the reasons you 've stated . |
| 15 | But is Mr Kinnock wise , having trimmed — having trimmed to a wiser policy , but all the same egregiously trimmed — is he wise to insist that the British people respect Labour for the changes it has made ? |
| 16 | Prussian law made it almost impossible for the Kaszubians who wanted to expand their holdings to do so by buying land from Germans . |
| 17 | If beds are blocked by for example geriatric patients er in medical or even surgical wards , wo n't there be a trickle effect and therefore it will be impossible for the patients who need to go up to these other wards to get out of the A and E department ? |
| 18 | The results of the test are instructive , but as much for the complications they reveal as for any neat conclusion . |
| 19 | Four levels were considered appropriate for the arguments which follow in parts two , three and four . |
| 20 | These quotations hint at a number of important dimensions to policing in Northern Ireland : that policemen and women in the RUC have common-sense conceptualizations of their role , with some defining it in terms of community service ; that they have sets of standardized guide-lines , what Schutz ( 1967 ) calls ‘ recipes ’ , appropriate for the situations they handle ; that they make , and try to maintain , a distinction between work and leisure ; and that they employ various distancing strategies to cope with the demands of their job . |
| 21 | ‘ I was delighted for the fans who travelled 300 miles south to see us . |
| 22 | These were doubtless satisfactory for the individuals who had collected them and for a short period of time , until perhaps superseded by rulings that were seen to be more appropriate . |
| 23 | That in turn threatens the worst for the teams they face , Cardiff being the first to dip their toe in the water . |
| 24 | It was really too cold for the clothes I had brought , so I fell back on a recommended resource . |
| 25 | ‘ It is good for the passengers to have a choice of airlines and it is good for the airlines themselves to have to respond and innovate . |
| 26 | Her ambition to be a painter was thwarted by acute shortness of sight which made her turn to gardening , ‘ making pictures with living plants ’ to use her own words ; and she became famous for the gardens she created and the books she wrote . |
| 27 | Surely it is better for the townsfolk themselves to develop the necessary skills to fight their own battles ? |
| 28 | Some of the paintings of the city are fascinating for the changes they highlight . |
| 29 | They may also find one or two of the papers unnecessarily long for the points they convey . |
| 30 | Sartori had been indulgent for the weeks they 'd been together . |