Example sentences of "[adj] for [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was n't prepared to be carried along with the wave and the various things that he said about Europe were completely right for what he said . |
| 2 | er , she said you 're just right for it she said , but er she said we 've already finished filming for today , which they had , she said but if you come tomorrow , she said we 're er , we 're filming the dog race |
| 3 | Dhansak , Masala , Kashmiri and Korma are all too rich for someone who is seriously trying to keep the weight down . |
| 4 | And Lot fifty is a suitcase Standard , there it is now , Lot fifty for which I have a hundred and fifty offered , sixty , one seventy , one eighty one ninety two hundred , two twenty two forty , two sixty two eighty , three hundred and twenty , three twenty seated , any more ? |
| 5 | Much of it just fails to scan correctly — very odd for someone who was lecturing and giving tutorials on English poetry . |
| 6 | It is rather odd for someone who tends to denigrate official footpaths to be promoting a link between the Pennine and West Highland Ways . |
| 7 | When friendships finally became possible for him they were with children of the lower orders . |
| 8 | Nobody likes to think about death … especially premature death … but the miracles of modern medicine now make it possible for someone who dies to give life to another . |
| 9 | Indeed , I wondered whether it was possible for someone who had not shared in their experience to pass physically through the white gateposts into the avenue , and attain the domain . |
| 10 | Then he said , " The Boxing and Coxing on the ships would only be possible for someone who controlled a shipping line . |
| 11 | Under section 23 , however , it is possible for someone who is not a trader to be convicted . |
| 12 | When that happens , it will be possible for anyone who needs an interpreter to contact one by telephone and know that , when the interpreter arrived , he or she was competent and worked to a nationally recognised code of professional practice . |
| 13 | Unfortunately both Marx and Engels , in their enthusiasm for this confirmation of their theory , also took over from Morgan 's work on the gens several totally unsupportable assumptions which are in fact quite unnecessary for what they were trying to argue . |
| 14 | Oh yes , the , the service that the retain people give is unbelievable for what they get paid for , it 's , it 's pennies really for that service . |
| 15 | I 'm sorry for everything I 've done wrong . |
| 16 | well having said that , although I feel sorry for him I get annoyed with him ! |
| 17 | Why Harry felt sorry for him he did not know . |
| 18 | For a moment he was taken aback as he realised she was so sorry for him she was arranging a date . |
| 19 | But down the scale a bit and the , the men do n't get I feel sorry for them I mean you 've kids and everything . |
| 20 | She said so it 's got to be done really she said and I feel so sorry for them she says because even when they get older they still wo n't be able to go abroad . |
| 21 | ‘ No , Melody , I 'm not sorry for what we did . |
| 22 | ‘ No , ’ said Mrs Darrell violently to McAllister , who was dipping a curtsy , and beginning a stammering apology , but only because Dr Neil had asked her , not because she was sorry for what she had done . |
| 23 | Always before , after similar wickednesses , she had felt almost gleeful triumph , but this time , although she was not truly sorry for what she had done to Mrs Darrell , she felt something like remorse . |
| 24 | Still , her children are quite young and erm and I , I think she 's sorry for what she 's done . |
| 25 | ‘ The poor man , ’ a contemporary recorded , ‘ had little to say but that he was sorry for what he had done , and wept like a child . ’ |
| 26 | Then the king 's son was so sorry for what he had done that he would willingly have died too , if it would have brought her back to life . |
| 27 | Oliver felt so small in his hands that he was suddenly sorry for what he had said . |
| 28 | She believed he was ’ sorry for what he had done . |
| 29 | Lee Don Lau called his parents in Singapore to say he was sorry for what he had done . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't know what to say , ’ Farmer Bolsover said to Brownie Owl , ‘ except that I am very sorry for what I did say about the Brownies , especially about the Brownie who climbed my apple-tree for her budgie . |