Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [be] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I left the room I seemed to be in a school and I saw many children in the hall and I seemed to be late for a class . |
| 2 | In the first half , I began to be ashamed for ballet . |
| 3 | I 'm not a hard person , but I had to be tough for the kid 's sake . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ There was a night a few weeks past , when I was ill , when my spirit left my body and I wanted to be free for ever . |
| 5 | ‘ You got to be young for that . |
| 6 | ‘ But you got to be ready for it . |
| 7 | Just for a moment she began to be sorry for Ace Barton . |
| 8 | She needed to be alone for this . |
| 9 | send a message by telephone ( or telegram ) to … ( specify person ) which you knew to be false for the purpose of causing annoyance ( or inconvenience or needless anxiety ) to the said … ( or to … or |
| 10 | Occasionally she could see a gleam in Rachel 's eye , as though she might suddenly ask him if his intentions were honourable , but for the first time in her life she learned to be grateful for her mother 's good manners . |
| 11 | Despite the pain and the worry , Olivia knew she had to be brave for the sake of her six-year-old daughter Chloe , she told Hello ! magazine . |
| 12 | She wanted to be alone for a minute , away from Hepzibah 's kindness and Albert 's triumphant look . |
| 13 | He was very considerate like that — and he taught us girls a thing or two we lived to be grateful for later on , I can tell you . ’ |
| 14 | Furthermore , it is logical that models which can yield an investment strategy capable of beating a process of random selection and ‘ buy-and-hold ’ would not be published until they ceased to be profitable for their creators . |
| 15 | Some years ago The Sunday Times invited parents ( representing a wide range of social backgrounds ) to list the things which they felt to be significant for their children in their years of primary schooling . |
| 16 | Stuck in Dovercourt with little prospect of continuing their education or of fulfilling their parents ' ambitions , they did not see what they had to be grateful for . |
| 17 | If they had to be responsible for choosing the leaders of the Church , they needed information and their secretaries should be able to talk to people who had the information . |
| 18 | His Lordship maintained that s14(6) did not alter the law and that " purpose or purposes " referred to the range of uses of the contract goods but not that they had to be fit for all these purposes . |
| 19 | He seemed to be awake for a long time , I think , you know like you wake up and you do n't know what to do with yourself , I think it was like that , so every quarter of an hour or so he kept me , shouting for a drink he did n't know quite what to do with himself |
| 20 | The matter was considered by the Court of Appeal in Britton where a youth had left pamphlets late one evening in the porch of the house of a single member of Parliament whom he believed to be responsible for bringing coloured immigrants into Britain . |
| 21 | After about 9 days at Gary and Kaye 's we moved to Caroline Lock 's ; she has a small flat under the house , and it happened to be vacant for a week . |
| 22 | He reckoned to be airborne for 15 minutes in every 50 of the average run . |
| 23 | ‘ I never wanted to leave Wigan — it would have been a downward step — but at the same time it had to be right for me . |
| 24 | He had to be careful for other , more practical reasons . |
| 25 | The most versatile stone in his long catalogue was sapphire , which he held to be good for protecting the limbs from injury and the wearer from fraud , as well as for overcoming envy , averting terror , liberating from imprisonment , purifying the eyes , cooling the body and not least for the convenient property of making the wearer beloved of god as well as of men . |