Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] for i [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ' But there was n't enough in the extract for me to get the context . |
| 2 | My fields are too far from the Manor for me to keep an eye on them . |
| 3 | She kindly put her hand out of the window for me to kiss . |
| 4 | I would erm love to be able to offer them something that had the sanction of the whole church and the weight of the church behind it erm which could satisfy the longing for me to do this . |
| 5 | But when she married and moved to a distant part of the country , I decided it was the moment for me to change my life too . |
| 6 | This was the moment for me to escape , but I had only just left the sitting-room and reached the hall , when Mr Rochester appeared through another door . |
| 7 | and if you can have a word with them I 'd be grateful that just lays the foundation for me to talk to them and er and to go and see them . |
| 8 | He had difficulty sleeping and sometimes would call out in the night for me to help him light his pipe . |
| 9 | From my point of view it was a complete success — fun , interesting and the chance for me to meet someone whom I 'd admired from afar since I was 14 years old . |
| 10 | As for me , I had to wait the whole summer and into the late autumn for rehearsals of The Jungle Book to begin , so I went back to South London , happy in the knowledge that soon I 'd be in a professional production and there 'd be someone in the cast for me to fall in love with . |
| 11 | Then I heard him call down from the attic for me to open the stairs door wide . |
| 12 | But all the while I was led to believe by this statement another thing is that the day that made the made the appointment for me to appear , sorry are you reading ? |
| 13 | Teacher : If you found a bigger box could we add it to the train for me to sit in ? |
| 14 | There was enough light from the sky for me to see the padlocks . |
| 15 | And we 'd seen photographs of these and they were marvellous , and he said to me , I should like to see these fl these flats , he said er , I 'm gon na convince the Board that it 's necessary in the interests of the firm for me to go to Austria , you see . |
| 16 | Well you either left the line for me to try two or three mixes for custom purposes . |
| 17 | She 'd arranged with the school for me to see her results and report later when she phoned from the villa . |
| 18 | It 's there on the label for me to see . |
| 19 | But he was offhand with me and seemed to be waiting all the time for me to go out . |
| 20 | They were both Londoners so this cheered me up no end , and we were soon making our way to the Mess for supper and then up to the office for me to meet some of the others . |
| 21 | Richard was the team leader , he 's the guy for me to work on . |
| 22 | They will make a base for me to pen some more articles for the Journal . |
| 23 | Lissa had n't had a photograph for me to flash , but had described him as looking ‘ a lot like you , Mr Quick , a lot like you ’ . |
| 24 | I met George only when I came here , and it was a pleasure for me to meet such a good and conscientious man of the people . |
| 25 | It is a pleasure for me to announce the inaugural International First Turkey , and to award it to Mr Kaneo Nakamura , recent chairman of the Industrial Bank of Japan ( IBJ ) . |
| 26 | ‘ It was not so much of a stretch for me to do that role as people might think , ’ Dustin explained . |
| 27 | I do not think that that is a question for me to answer from the Dispatch Box . |
| 28 | Whenever I went to Fisherton Street it was a must for me to go to Pickfords , the carriers for The Great Western Railway , just to gaze in the window , for right in the centre was a beautiful scale model of one of their pantechnicons , some two feet in length . |
| 29 | To take a trivial example , it is a cost rather than a benefit for me to pay my children to clean my car rather than to take it to the automatic car wash , even if the car wash charges more than my children . |
| 30 | with a desk for me to fill , while Chippenham |