Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [am/are] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I shall try to think of some way of showing how grateful I am for your bravery . |
| 2 | I want to show you how grateful I am for that . ’ |
| 3 | I can see how hopelessly unsuitable I am for you ; all I ever do is misunderstand what you say , and weep . |
| 4 | Tell him how sorry you are for letting Satan influence your life . |
| 5 | ‘ You must show cookie here how grateful you are for all the trouble she 's taken . ’ |
| 6 | How glad I am for them ! |
| 7 | The more ambitious you are for how the magazine is to look , the more time-consuming and expensive your enterprise becomes . |
| 8 | On behalf of CPRW , I would like to say how grateful we are for your request to the Trustees of Mrs L D Rope 's Second Charitable Settlement to consider making a donation to CPRW . |
| 9 | " But think how good I am for you . |
| 10 | It is less immediately evident that such an understanding should be necessary in order to account for the formal properties of code switching , although I would argue strongly that it is , inasmuch as the extent to which switching may take place is in part a function of the extent to which the codes involved have " fused " within a community , i.e. how interchangeable they are for the different purposes of everyday interaction . |
| 11 | Every organization has these unofficial groups , and research has shown how important they are for organizational effectiveness . |
| 12 | Every day couples meet who are amazed at how right they are for each other — proof that Dateline works ! |
| 13 | " Miriam , " she said instead , " I can not tell you how worried I am for Harry . |
| 14 | ‘ Tell us how bad we are for eating , buying , selling so much , through pictures of starving children or selfish indulgence — this is the style favoured by charities . |