Example sentences of "[pers pn] [pron] [verb] [be] [adj] for " in BNC.

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1 Certainly I I 've been aware for a while now that there have been problems at Kingslane general in terms of of break ins erm not just specifically with the launderette but with also the community room er there and certainly I I 've been engaged in making one or two suggestions about how security measures could be improved .
2 ‘ The nurse tells me she 's been asleep for some time . ’
3 Their closeness was less due to their nearness in age — though with only eighteen months between them it had been easy for them to grow up with similar interests and shared confidences — than to the fact that neither of their parents had ever made much of them .
4 She needed to remember that he himself had been responsible for her having had to face that terrible choice in the first place .
5 He thought it better not to mention it was he who had been responsible for both his accidents .
6 It was Allen he asked as though he believed it was he who had been responsible for the verderer 's disappearance .
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